Phuza Wize round table: 3 March at Sedibeng in Meadowlands, Gauteng

09:45-10:00
(15 mins)

REGISTRATION & TEA

10:00-10:15
(15 mins)

WELCOME
Birgit Schwarz (project director, frayintermedia)

10:15-10:30
(15 mins)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Phuza Wize: Why the need for this campaign?
Speaker: Dr Sue Goldstein (senior executive, Soul City Institute)

10:30-11:30
(1 hour)

SEMINAR 1:
Understanding the Link Between Violence and Alcohol Consumption
Expert: Dr Neo Morojele (deputy director, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council)
Facilitator: [...]

Phuza Wize round table: 1 March at the Rainbow in Pinetown KZN

09:30-10:00
(30 mins)

REGISTRATION & TEA

10:00-10:15
(15 mins)

WELCOME
Michael Schmidt (managing director , frayintermedia)

10:15-10:30
(15 mins)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Phuza Wize: Why the need for this campaign?
Speaker: Dr Sue Goldstein (Soul City Alcohol Reduction and Violence Prevention Campaign Manager)

10:30-11:30
(1 hour)

SEMINAR 1: Understanding the Link Between Violence and Alcohol Consumption
Experts: Prof Charles Parry (director, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit, South African [...]

Are we a nation of violent drinkers? Soul City launches Phuza Wize

Whatever your answer, the available research paints a horrifying picture:
More than half of the victims of non-fatal and fatal violence test positive for alcohol in urban areas. Most violence-related deaths occur on Saturdays and Sundays, when binge drinking is common. Binge drinking is defined as having 5 or more drinks in a day. Alcohol is [...]

Newspapers learning in community

How can small community newspapers and magazines be made viable? Delegates from several provinces, sponsored by the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA), will be pooling their experiences and ideal solutions at a two-day workshop.
 frayintermedia’s Michael Schmidt will be a speaker at the forum for community media on February 11 and 12, convened by the [...]

Training government journalists – being fair, accurate and balanced

frayintermedia’s Michael Schmidt conducted a two-day workshop on “Online to print” for government journalists on February 4 and 5.
GCIS, the Government Communication Information System, approached frayintermedia to provide training to a group of their journalists who work for BuaNews, the Government news agency. These journalists work mostly online, but needed to acquire skills in writing [...]

frayintermedia’s Birgit Schwarz training “Reporting diversity, migration and development” 2009

Award-winning author Adam Hochschild and Prof. Anton Harber at the 2008 Narrative Journalism Conference

Fred Khumalo and Mark Gevisser in conversation at the 2008 Narrative Journalism Conference

frayintermedia’s Birgit Schwarz leading a journalism training field trip in Uganda 2008

frayintermedia’s Michael Schmidt with students at “Conflict in transitional societies” Mexico 2009

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