Spent today contributing to Module 1 of the AfriZert Program called “Encountering Africa Differently” at the Bayreuth International Graduate School for African Studies.
We looked at how Colonialism, Commerce and Curators shape the news produced by German media about Africa.

ICYMI: We love a good Provocation. However, the first offering from Journalism Studies' Provocations section reflected the Global North dominance within global journalism research. We write in the hope that this trend will not continue.
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DOES JOURNALISM HAVE A SUSTAINABLE FUNDING—or BEGGING—MODEL?
The howling by mostly global minority intermediaries managing funds for global majority journalists is growing louder by the month.

Tomorrow's newsletter from Mahala - Decolonising Collaborations has tips on how to safeguard your intellectual property during journalism collaborations.
✅ Subscribers ONLY, at 7am CET✅
#WorldIPDay #Collaborations #MahalaDC #DecolonisingCollaborations
#InvestigativeJournalism

How to #decolonise your #conference. Helpful hints - not only for journalistic meetings. via @rgameyer.bsky.social

New Post: How to Decolonise Conferences

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Hello, folks!
Apologies: I changed phones, lost passwords etc so I haven’t had access on here. I promise to do better.
Thank you for the follows and interaction.

Here’s what’s coming up on Mahala-DC, and how to subscribe 👇🏾

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Your questions answered, your successes (and challenges) showcased. 😉

Your ten-minute playlist*—if you’d like to dance/head-bop into the first working day of 2025! You made it!❤️
- Notice by Nissi
- Jeje by Falz
- Ahomka Wo Mu by V.I.P

In that particularly order, yes.
*Yes, in another life I was a DJ.😎💃🏽👯‍♀️

Albanian Government:
🗣️ “TikTok is the thug of the neighbourhood. We have to shut it down for a year.”

Me:
“Uhm…have y’all met X?” 😩

Moin, Luxembourg! Enroute to Brussels for a “High-level conference: Coding Equality into the AI Act – Equality Bodies rising up to the Challenge”.
It is organised by Equinet, the European Network of Equality Bodies.
Side-note: The event is invite-so feel free to DM; we could meet on the sidelines.

#OCCRP
Pic 1 shows a colleague-based threat.
Pic2 is what being in, or controlling powerful silos also makes people tweet. Call it SEA: silo-enhancing audacity.🙂

Whether you know “these guys” or not, or agree with them or not?
It is absurd to focus on that, rather than issues arising.

[PUBLICATION ALERT]
The Threat Within: Power Dynamics Impeding Cross-Border Journalism Practice--Perspectives from African Investigators.
‼️The accepted manuscript version is on my LinkedIn. The final version with accurate page numbers and supplemental tables: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

A very alarming example of colleague-based threats (censorship) to investigative journalism, linked to the OCCRP. I am very disturbed by this.

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I'm turning practice-based reflections from a forthcoming paper into a series of workshops. One of the first sessions will be in exactly A WEEK! And so I look forward to the feedback on ways to improve.

Today's edition of our daily roundup on journalism features Australia's ban on social media for under-16s, ChatGPT inaccuracies, Bluesky's struggles with verification

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Psychische #Gesundheit von #Journalist*innen. Das scheint mir ein vernachlässigtes Thema. Nicht nur im Blick auf - oft prekäre - Arbeitsbedingungen. Auch angesichts der Belastungen durch die Informationen, die sie verarbeiten müssen. Danke für den Hinweis, @rgameyer.bsky.social

In #Nigeria, elephants are a bellwether for geopolitics.
Tolu Ogunlesi’s latest piece is an education. Read it please.

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