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Invitation to register : Highway Africa conference 2021
𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚’𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲! Registration for Africa's biggest conference for journalists, media scholars and NGOs working in the media, the 2021 Highway Africa (HA) summit conference, opens today and closes at the end of business on 18...
2021 SOUTHERN AFRICA MEDIA GRANT FOR SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING
2021 SOUTHERN AFRICA MEDIA GRANT FOR SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING Highway Africa (HA), together with the Partnership for Social Accountability (PSA) Alliance, invites media houses in Southern Africa to apply for the 2021 Southern Africa Media Grant for Social...
How to Report and Write About Digital Health
By Artur Olesch, Digital Health Journalist Telemedicine, telecare, and mobile health apps have recently gained momentum, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and novel healthcare challenges. When preparing content on emerging technologies, it is fundamental to understand...
2021 SOUTHERN AFRICA MEDIA AWARD IN SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING
2021 SOUTHERN AFRICA MEDIA AWARD IN SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING Highway Africa, together with the Partnership for Social Accountability (PSA) Alliance, invites journalists in Southern Africa to apply for the 3rd Southern Africa Media Awards in Social...
Africa’s premier media and journalism conference returns in June 2021
Highway Africa (HA), the continent’s largest gathering of African journalists and media practitioners, is gearing up for the 23rd edition in June 2021 under the theme, The Promises and Perils of Platformisation for Africa. In June this year, editors, journalists,...
Rebuilding trust and credibility in the media
Highway Africa (HA), the continent's biggest media conference run by the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, held its third webinar, entitled "Building Trust Practicing Credibility: A Journalism Challenge," on 14 October. This webinar looked...
Webinar underscores need for media partnerships
Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa -- Highway Africa (HA), the largest conference for African journalists on the continent, hosted its second webinar entitled “Journalists, Scientists, Whistle-blowers, Governments: Who are The Truth-Tellers” on August 5. This...
Highway Africa launches high-level media webinars
Reporting: Julian Jacobs Editing: Francis Mdlongwa Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa -- Highway Africa (HA), the continent’s biggest and oldest conference series run by Rhodes University, has launched a series of high-level webinars that seek practical solutions to...
The names behind the numbers
byALICE DE SOUZA May 28, 2020 in COVID-19 REPORTING Brazil has become a new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, reaching 20,000 deaths on May 21. The official numbers may be the tip of the iceberg as a study conducted by the University of São Paulo shows the...
Investigative journalism in the era of the corona virus
The coronavirus, which causes the disease known as Covid-19, has killed thousands of people across the world and upended the lives and work of billions of others still lucky to count themselves alive. Never before in the past century has a disease wrought so much...