Know your tweets from your facebook and your blog, 17-19 August 2010, Jhb

After the success of previous workshops, frayintermedia presents a three-day course on interactive social media tools that provides an overview of the existing tools as well as the skills to use them effectively. The course is divided into a two-day Social Media Tools Workshop and a one-day writing for Blogs Workshop. Participants can register for [...]

Social Media Tools and Writing for blogs Workshop, 21-23 July 2010

Leading media training agency frayintermedia presents a three-day course on interactive social media tools that provides an overview of the existing tools as well as the skills to use them effectively.  The course is divided into a two-day Social Media Tools Workshop and a one-day writing for Blogs Workshop. Participants can register for either, or [...]

Reporting the Pan African Parliament

On behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and the Pan African Parliament, frayintermedia conducted a half-day training course on 6 November 2009 for journalists covering the First Ordinary Session of the Second Pan African Parliament.
The training looked at the role of journalists in a democracy and approaches to parliamentary reporting. Its prime [...]

Bugs into the Battle: Reporting Biotechnology

frayintermedia and the South African Agency for Science & Technology Advancement (SAASTA) in conjunction with the Public Understanding of Biotechnology (PUB) programme is holding a series of Media Round Tables and training workshops to raise awareness about the often-controversial issues surrounding biotechnology, its potentials, risks, and ethical and environmental implications.
Read more about the workshop “From [...]

New book by frayintermedia director

Dr Lucien van der Walt of the Sociology Department, Wits University and frayintermedia Training Director Michael Schmidt have just released the first book of their two-volume non-fiction work, representing nine years of research into the history and theory of global directly-democratic working-class struggle.
Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (AK Press, [...]

So how to report the elections?

The craft of journalism has been devalued and it is shocking how unskilled some journalists are.
These remarks by Professor Adam Habib, vice-chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, at a reporting elections workshop hosted by frayintermedia on March 4, highlighted that journalists needed critical skills in order to report with credibility on the upcoming general election.
Habib [...]

Holding Politicians Accountable

HOLDING POLITICIANS ACCOUNTABLE: REPORTING ON THE 2009 ELECTION & BEYOND
You are invited to attend a free one-day seminar series on March 4 at Hackle Brooke, Johannesburg.
- Resurgent inter-party violence in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.
- Political leaders turning the heat up with hate speech against their adversaries.
- South Africa’s huddled masses competing [...]

A review of the HSRC’s volume on SA Media

 

Power, Politics and Identity in South African Media
HSRC Press 2008, ISBN 9780796922021
Review by Michael Schmidt
Originally published in Focus #51, journal of the Helen Suzman Foundation
 
The rows centred on Jacob Zuma, the recent attacks on black lesbians, and this year’s antiforeigner murder spree have raised the crucial question of whether the media have stoked South Africans’ apparent reversion to antagonistic roles – [...]

Zambian journalism has come a long way

 Miriam Zimba of the Times of Zambia gives her insight into the state of Zambian Journalism and the challenges faced by women journalists in her country.
1. What is the state of press freedom in your country?
The battle for press freedom in Zambia has come a long way and we have now reached a pinnacle [...]

Photographs from the 2008 Reporting Science Conference

View photographs of the presenters at the 2008 Reporting Science Conference organised by frayintermedia.

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