Yolanda Moyo, The Global Campaign for Microbicides and Matebogo Mampane, Soul City at the IWMF panel discussion, fifth module.
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
November: Storify training
November 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Participants at the Advanced Social Media Workshop on November 8 were taken through the principles and best practices of content curation using social media. As part of a short practical exercise, they submitted the following curated content using Storify.
Dr Michele Ruiters, DBSA Gender specialist and Mark Ashton, Finance Week editor sharing views on Monitoring Finance For Development at the Old Mutual Finance and Business Writing 2011
October 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
POWER REPORTING – The African Investigative Journalism Conference: Bursaries Now Available For Climate Change Reporters!
October 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
With the approach of the COP17 talks in Durban, and the shocking example of drought in Somalia, climate change will take centre stage in African reporting in the coming months.
John Vidal, the London Guardian’s environment editor, will be speaking at the conference and running a training session on reporting climate change.
A limited number of bursaries are available for investigative journalists reporting climate change in sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa to attend the conference. Send a motivation letter by email, with at least two examples of reporting on issues of climate change to powerreporting@journalism.co.z
The bursary will cover flights, accommodation, transport in SA and food. But not visas and home country transport.
Closing date: Friday 15 October 2011.
Advanced Social Media Tools Workshop, November 8 2011
September 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
This one-day advanced workshop is targeted at all communicators; journalists, public relations practitioners and advocacy managers. It will focus on interactive social media tools used for content creation and curation.
Participants will walk away with the confidence to use tools like Storify to develop coherent narratives using a range of social media sources.
The workshop also includes a practical guide to media ethics, social media best practice and reach tracking.
To garner the full benefit of this workshop, participants are required to have a basic working knowledge of the more common social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.
Cost: R 1 368 (vat inclusive).
Space is limited due to the interactive nature of the training. Internet access is provided – please bring your laptop for immediate implementation.
To register, please contact Nhlanhla Kubeka on 011 341 0767 or at info@frayintermedia.com
IWMF HIV/AIDS Investigative Journalism Fellowship training, David Steynberg of People Magazine and Ramatamo Sehoai of Alex Pioneer
August 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Introduction to Social Media Workshop, July 25
May 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Introduction to Social Media Tools workshop
July, 25
This one-day workshop on effective interactive social media tools – such as Twitter and Facebook – is targeted at all communicators: journalists, public relations practitioners and advocacy managers.
This introduction to the social media landscape gives practical guidelines on how to use these new tools to collect and disseminate information – and measure its impact.
Cost: R1, 200 (excluding VAT). Space is limited due to the interactive nature of the training. Internet Access is provided – please bring your laptop for immediate implementation.
To register, please contact Nhlanhla Kubeka on 011 325 0767 or at info@frayintermedia.com.
Introduction to Sub-editing Workshop, July 26-28 2011
May 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This three-day course is an introduction to sub-editing and seeks to provide a solid foundation in text editing. The course satisfies the MAPPP-SETA requirements for Unit Standard 110358: Sub-editing non-specialist text
Numerous exercises will test the participants’ understanding of each aspect of the syllabus. After completion of the course the participants should be able to edit copy, write headlines and captions and guard against the main legal dangers facing journalists.
Participants require:
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Pens
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An ample supply of notepaper
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Copies of newspapers
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Calculators
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Their publication’s style book (if available)
Cost: R2736,00 VAT inclusive
Venue: Suite 252 Dunkeld West Centre, 277 Jan Smuts Avenue, Dunkeld, 2196.
To register, please contact Nhlanhla Kubeka on 011 341 0767 or on email at info@frayintermedia.com.
