course trains participants in creating impactful investigative
reports on VAWG for advocacy and awareness purposes. It seeks to establish a
thorough understanding of VAWG to convert and apply the knowledge in
This foundation course covers a detailed, practical, and comprehensive curriculum that introduces students to the meaning and various forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG), the legal frameworks available, reporting agencies, and policies that handle VAWG and challenges with the current system.
This course explores the underlying complexities that journalists may face when
covering complex news stories. Reporting on issues such as sexual violence is a skill that is often glossed over in journalists’ education.
Combining theory and practice, this course will correct this oversight and give
journalists the expertise and understanding to report on these subjects
responsibly and ethically.
In this 2-hour, self-paced course, we’ll introduce you to solutions journalism which is evidence-based reporting on responses to social problems. You’ll learn specific techniques to use this constructive and ethical approach to report on peace and security issues. We’ll cover examples that show you how to write stories that contextualise conflicts and curate their impact on society. With four modules and five short assessment quizzes, you’ll leave this course with the confidence to discover and then cover the big stories on your beat.
This course will equip journalists with
practical and transferrable skills in using the gender angle to report on peace
and security issues in Africa. The course will be relatable in content and
context in line with the organizational goal of creating
safe spaces for women to learn and share.
This course is designed to deepen African female journalists’ understanding of global, continental and local policies around peace and security and their professional roles in reporting and promoting such policies. It covers eight modules on policies on women, peace and security, and guidelines for reporting such issues. They will also be led to reflect on basic ethical principles of media, national codes of ethics, strategies for integrating a gender lens in reporting peace and security and share ideas to guide collaborative engagements with policy actors.
The course is reporting on the gendered perspectives of environmental issues with the aim of teaching female journalists to report on environmental issues, specifically, biodiversity, climate change and pollution, discussing whether the gender lens was used or not, and how it was used to create an impact. The practical program translates into articles produced by female journalists.
- Ability to analyze news items on environmental issues and identify the existing gaps
- Identify environmental issues and report on them through the gender lens
- The Importance impact of gender reporting on environmental issues
- Identifying gender reporting in two roles: women as practitioners and consumers of media
This 30-minute self-paced course will introduce you to solutions journalism techniques that enable you to report holistically on our environment. You’ll gain insights on how to write stories that contextualise the African Green Stimulus Programme, as advocated by the United Nations Environmental Programme. Over the course of 4 modules and 5 short assessment quizzes, you will emerge a solutions-focused journalist, able to provide rigorous, evidence-based reporting on responses to social problems.
Upon the completion of this course, learners will;
Have a comprehensive understanding of solutions journalism- what it is and why it is important.
Have a comprehensive understanding of the strategic approaches to solutions journalism from the idea to reporting to the completed story.
Know how to apply the solutions approach to enhance their coverage of environmental issues such as biodiversity, climate change, and pollution.
This 10 module course is designed for photojournalists pursuing a career in visual storytelling. The course will guide trainees on their first visual story as they develop it throughout the modules. The course includes technical, writing, aesthetic, funding and ethical classes targeting the different aspects considered in visual storytelling.
This course will provide comprehensive coverage of the ethics and legalities of photojournalism. The course unpacks the moral and legal obligations and rights of photojournalists and their sources (subjects). We look at different modes of photojournalism and ventilate the ethical and legal aspects related to each type. The course focuses on both ends of the photojournalistic experience: that of photographed subjects and that of the photojournalist.
Theory-based documentary and photojournalism production is an entry level journalistic content production course. It bases documentary and photography production on communication theories, to critique a greater variety of human experiences through content production facilitated by women on the African continent. This course will help build relevant skillset for journalistic story telling including framing, agenda setting, visual storytelling essentials (lighting, exposure, editing), information processing, interviewing, and reporting.
This course will focus on understanding the key concepts of gender-sensitive journalism with emphasis on the progress, protection and promotion of women’s rights in the newsroom. The training will cover issues such as the impact of gender inequality, anti-discrimination, gender stereotypes, women’s rights, gender sensitive language among others. It will equip participants, at either early or mid-career level with the critical skills to report from a perspective of gender-sensitive values and on news stories that challenge the gender stereotype.
This advanced course on developing internal gender policies will focus on how individuals, private and public media organizations, training institutions and policy makers can not only develop but also implement gender policies that protect women journalists. It will equip the learners with the critical skills to create fair policies in leadership opportunities for women, sexual harassment, maternity, salary discrepancies and many other issues to ensure an enabling working environment for women journalists.
This course explores the use of data in journalism. Learners will gain critical insight on how to mine and analyze digitized information, how to use data tools, how to scrutinize and interpret data for deeper and more compelling visualization and storytelling. The course will also help learners understand the basic ideas, language and application of ethics and equity in data journalism.
This course focuses on equipping beginners and intermediate learners with the skills to not only create and publish digital content, but with the tools they need to understand the myriad changes and challenges arising from the digital revolution.
This course will provide an extensive overview of labour migration in Africa as a means to discuss the ethical considerations journalists must be aware of when reporting. This will include analyses of regional trends and how they tie to social, cultural and economic conventions. In turn, these elements will be discussed in relation to their impact of gender identity politics. The course will highlight how journalists can report on these intersecting factors in a manner that does not compromise the overall safety of their sources and affected communities. We will make reference to the principles of Constructive Journalism as a way to intercept and correct ethical blunders.
Upon completion of this course, learners will:
- be conscientised about the ethics of reporting on labour migration in the continent.
- be able to monitor their own practise through a considered ethical lens and with an awareness of gender identity politics.
- Produce well researched, constructive and considered journalistic outputs
Modules under this course
- Case Study: The future of migration in the Global South: racializing diseases has to stop.
- The tenets and ethics of Journalism
- An overview of labour migration coverage and reporting on the Continent.
- Constructive Journalism and Reporting on labour migration
- Trauma and the ethics of sensitive interviewing and reporting
- Intercultural relations in ethical labour migration reporting
- Women and labour migration
- Patriarchy and labour migration - how it affects all of us and why journalists need to be cognisant of it
- Ethical visual media practice
- 1n the Event of an ethical blunder
A strong focus of the course will be to equip journalists with practical tools and skills to tackle labour migration policy reportage.
Upon completion of this course learners should be able to:
● Understand the context of labour migration policy in Africa
● Use the set of tools shared during the course to unearth labour migration policy narratives
● Identify and understand the structure of the migrant labour market
Modules Under this course:
- Introduction to labour migration policy
- Introduction to labour migration policy in Africa
- Actors of labour migration in Africa
- Assessing the status of labour migration policy in Africa.
- International Labour Standards presenting important labour migration instruments.
- Key labour migration instruments that have been ratified in the region.
- National legal frameworks highlighting good practices on labour inspection, anti-trafficking, social protection and minimum wage.
- What labour migration policy should not look like
- Access to decent work for refugees.
- How labour migration policy affects vulnerable groups: women and children.
This course aims at setting the foundation for African Journalists to understand the human and labour rights of migrant workers. The course explores different definitions, laws, and legal instruments, and showcases best practices for a human-centered journalistic coverage that is ethical and objective.
- The journalist will be able to differentiate between the concepts and notions related to migration issues
- The journalist will be able to know the main international and regional legal instruments
- The journalist will be able to understand the role of migrants; especially women, in the development of origin and host countries
- The journalist will be able to master an objective human-centered approach in covering labour migration-related stories
“What makes a good story? A good story allows us to see through the eyes of another. This course will equip participants with skills to write stories about the effect the pandemic has had on labour migration. In this course, you will become part of our classroom community, not only as writers but also as readers and critics. By understanding the significance of ethical reporting and feature writing on current issues such as labour migration and reporting during pandemics.
- To discuss the significance of reporting on labour migration during a pandemic
- To discuss the ethical considerations of reporting on labour migration
- To describe the elements of good stories, plus ways and means of writing a good story
- To describe the importance of fact-checking and credibility of sources
What makes a good story? A good story allows us to see through the eyes of another. This course will equip participants with skills to identify stories about labour migration, with reference to migration during a pandemic. In this course you will become part of our classroom community, not only as writers but also as readers and critics. You will learn how to develop story ideas and identify the tenets of good stories on labour migration, and how migration is affected by global issues like pandemics.
This course will grant you skills to identify, access, analyse and interpret data as well as verify the accuracy of scientific information
This course will enable you to identify the role of gender in journalism practice. The course begin with the individual journalist and audience, moves on to the elements of a gender-cognizant pitch, identifying minefields during reporting and production, and concludes with modules on increasing story impact.
This course introduces learners to the concept, methodologies, and applications of artificial intelligence in journalism. It teaches on how publishers use algorithms for data mining and the discovery of valuable insights that help reshape their stories to be more user-friendly. It teaches AI tools and techniques used to automatically produce news from structured data.
This course guides you through various safety considerations for journalists. From physical to online safety. Journalists’ eyewitness sufferings, deaths, mass burials quarantine and so on, the stress and psychological trauma are major occupational risks for journalists. Thus, with the right tools and knowledge, journalists can significantly build resilience and reduce the psychological toll of their work. Thus, this course is designed to equip female journalists with skills, and tools to report safely.