Special thanks to Dr. Claudia Gebauer, Aline, the afriZert team as well as the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art (StMWK) and the Bavarian Youth Exchange Foundation (SJB) who support this programme.
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We ended with pointers on how to diversify our news diets and exercises on developing a critical mindset to news.
It’s always an honour to get the chance to shape the African narrative and learn from our future leaders.

…unless newsrooms and journalists create real audiences who support their journalism, the predominant journalism funding model will only continue to create new ways of begging...and reach louder decibels of whining. Out tomorrow, 7AM CET.
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Their screaming is caused by grief, not from the loss of hundreds of lives of journalists in Gaza, but grief over the loss of money.
Our reflective post this week concludes that…

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It’s time to WORK on the profession we all love and benefit from.
All the best, colleagues.
It’s been a dreadful week. We bystanders especially need to process the mess we are seeing.

4. It’s time to move to INSTITUTIONAL change and debate, not the continuous “my silo and network is bigger than yours” energy we are seeing.

3. It’s time to talk about what media funding for investigative journalism is, what it should be, and how it should be communicated, even how frequently it should be communicated, and to whom.

2b. Your colleagues in countries with less funding in the profession are wondering if they are safe, if you can do this to each other. Speak with them, reach out and communicate, clarify or apologise.
Lest you finish your turf wars and realise that you have lost the entire battle.

2. It’s time to mend the broken trust between colleagues (especially foreign colleagues) who are watching Europeans, Americans and their supporters tear each other apart shamefully and quite frankly, disgustingly.

1. It’s time to move to discussions on rebalancing relations between members in investigative networks.
E.g how does one party get the right to tell their peers when/what/how to respond to journalist enquiries?