Soul City signs with frayintermedia

frayintermedia is set to leverage media across the country to speak to all South Africans – across race, gender and age – in an effort to get the country talking about multiple and concurrent partners and the effect of this on the HIV/Aids pandemic.
Appointed to handle media advocacy for the Soul City Institute on its [...]

Shaping the African media landscape in 2008

frayintermedia is not just shaping the media landscape in South Africa but also in Africa.
This follows the awarding of the second phase of the The Agriculture, Rural Development and Women (IWMF) project to the company.
A four-year initiative to work with news media organisations in Africa to enhance the coverage of agriculture, rural development and women on the continent, [...]

Opinion does not include discrimination

The media has no right to discriminate and remove dignity from its subjects, even if the Constitution does ensure them the right to an opinion.
This was the conclusion of the sixth frayintermedia Mail&Guardian Journalism Dialogues that took place in Cape Town in August.
Taking its cue from Jon Qwelane’s controversial opinion piece on homosexuality the Journalism [...]

Tips for junior journalists

Firstly, decide on exactly what you want your story to say or to prove, a central hypothesis.This is a clearly-worded statement that neatly sums up the angle of your story and it is an important first step in your planning because it is the heart of what you will pitch to your news editor – [...]

Finding your newsroom feet

Hitting the newsroom running was the aim of two days of intensive training at the offices of Independent Newspapers in Cape Town.
Junior reporters spent two days with frayintermedia’s Michael Schmidt learning the tricks of the trade.
“This training is aimed at helping journalists who have just started out to find their feet in the newsroom. It [...]

Science Conference on track

Equipping journalists with effective reporting skills on science will be the focus of frayintermedia’s second Reporting Science Conference.
Themed Making Science Headlines this year’s conference will focus on climate change, alternative energy sources, food security and nanotechnology.
Said organiser Debby Kramer: “Science stories seemingly go untold because of a shortage of well informed and trained science journalists. [...]