Shaping the Media Landscape
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.
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.
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
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.
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:
Cost: R2736,00 VAT inclusive
Venue: Suite 252 Dunkeld West Centre, 277 Jan Smuts Avenue, Dunkeld, 2196.
The third and final tweet-up on gender issues was held at frayintermedia training rooms in May. An initiative of Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) the tweet-up raises discussions on various issues affecting citizens leading up to the upcoming municipal elections.
Lisa Vetten of the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre (TLAC) and Janine Hicks of Commission of Gender Equality (CGE) made up the panel. They raised quite a few issues regarding the importance of strong representation of women needed in our government as well various issues affecting women in these upcoming elections. According to Hicks it is worrisome that not even the DA – with three women on their elections posters – is really pushing gender issues in these next coming elections.
“There are different needs for the communities besides service deliveries”, she said. Of these she mentioned issues like the high drop out rate of girls in schools, teenage pregnancies and abuse from pupils e.g. teachers, high mortality rate and HIV feminisation to name a few. Hicks also pointed out the lack of women representation in our government as reason for the minimal interest with regards to issues relating and affecting women. “We don’t need just equal representation of women in parliament but also who these women are and what they will do for gender equality”, said Hicks.
Vetten raised the issue of accountability for promises made during the campaigning period. “Elections aren’t the b-all and end-all. We have to hold politicians accountable and not just leave them alone for 5 years then bring up these important issues”.
She also stressed the importance of seeing women as equals to their male counterparts. “I find it offensive when people question women candidate’s credentials and the same questions not asked of men. “If society recognised women are equal there would be no need for quotas – but reality this is not the case”, she said.
More comments on the tweet-up please follow @MediaMatterZA @GenderIssuesZA and look for the hashtag #MMAEAP on twitter.
