By Mariona Sanz Bujakera, a prominent Congolese journalist, director of Actualités.cd and correspondent for Reuters and French magazine Jeune Afrique, was arrested on the evening of 8th  September at Kinshasa airport. He was formally detained on 11th September after spending […]

By Pius Muteekani Katunzi Managing Director/Editor of The Observer in Uganda Media organisations across the world are grappling with an evolving landscape brought on by shifts in content consumption, increased competition for advertising revenue and the aftershocks of a pandemic. […]

Get all the info on Digital Media Africa here. ‘This may sound cliched, but I am truly inspired by ordinary South Africans who wake up every day to hustle to make a better living for themselves, despite structural challenges that […]

“When you think about the lessons we’ve learned over time, these are the questions that for digital media companies – even legacy media companies – are hard to answer,” Sharma said of the questions in the above image, during a […]

The Global Principles for AI aim to ensure publishers’ continued ability to create and disseminate quality content while facilitating innovation and the responsible development of trustworthy AI systems. Addressing critical dimensions relating to intellectual property, transparency, accountability, quality and integrity, […]

‘Performance results are the primary objective of change, not change. Getting people to commit to performance results, not to commit to change, is key – and that’s what RAOOI is all about.’ Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading […]

In 2014, Toyosi Ogunseye, the first woman editor of Sunday Punch in Nigeria, was honoured by Women in News, receiving its first Women in News  Leadership Award for Africa. The same year, Ogunseye became a Mandela Washington Fellow at the […]

“Over the past two years, the average age of our digital subscribers has decreased from 45 to 38,” Patrick Hamsch, Deputy Head of Media at Sweden’s NWT Media told participants at WAN-IFRA’s recent World News Media Congress in Taipei. Furthermore, […]

About five years ago, podcasting was still relatively novel in Africa. In 2019, only 22% of South Africans had heard of podcasting, according to an Edison Research study; this, compared to 77% of US citizens at the time. And a […]

By Sophia Boysen, BotTalk As the traditional publishing industry embraces digitisation and seeks innovative ways to engage readers, text-to-speech (TTS) and AI voice cloning offer a plethora of advantages that promise to revolutionise the reading experience and open new possibilities […]