frayintermedia’s Michael Schmidt advises the editor of a community newspaper in Alexandra 2009
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Mentoring staff at Alexandra community newspaper
November 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In June 2009 the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) commissioned frayintermedia to provide turnkey training and mentoring to the staff of Alex Pioneer, a start-up newspaper serving the Alexandra community.
We gave the staff of Alex Pioneer an intensive, week-long course on editorial and business skills. The training was followed by a five-month mentoring programme in which frayintermedia’s trainers made weekly visits to Alex Pioneer to assist the staff with all aspects of establishing a successful community newspaper.
Covering Diversity, Migration and Development
July 28, 2009 By
In August 2009, frayintermedia, the International Organization for Migration, the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa, the Wits Forced Migration Studies Programme and Media Monitoring Africa launched a series of pilot training workshops on “Covering Diversity, Migration and Development” in Johannesburg, Polokwane and Lusaka.
South Africa’s social and economic landscape has changed dramatically since the first democratic election in 1994. As townships have become primary destinations for migrants from around the country and abroad, we have seen how quickly and devastatingly frustrations and anger can be re-channelled from service-delivery protests into anti-foreigner, anti-outsider killing sprees.
Read more about the workshops here.
