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Engelstalige kwartaalnieuwsbrief, uitgebracht tot eind 2007

MediaNews is een Engelstalige kwartaalnieuwsbrief waarmee NiZA tot eind 2007 geïnteresseerden informeert over ontwikkelingen op het gebied van media en informatievoorziening in en over zuidelijk Afrika. In totaal verschenen 26 nieuwsbrieven.



MediaNews 27 – December 2007
MediaNews 27 - December 2007.pdf (1010 Kb)

  • The sad demise of MediaNews
  • NiZA on a new path
  • The footprint of the Media Program
  • Reflections on the ‘Project Farmers’
  • Emergence of a promising generation of journalists
  • Zimbabwe news per SMS successful
  • SWRA wins Media Excellence Award
  • Power Reporting workshop report
  • Under the radar: the independence of the SABC
  • Blogs: an innovative way to speak up
  • MISA-Zimbabwe and ZACRAS to visit Netherlands
  • Struggle for Zimbabwe Community Radio
  • The African Media Initiative (AMI)
  • New dossiers published by FAIR
  • Elections and media freedom in 2008



MediaNews 26 – September 2007
MediaNews 26 - September 2007.pdf (1563 Kb)
  • NiZA transforms into campagain organisation
  • Insult laws in Africa and what prospects for their elimination
  • Highway Africa Conference coming up
  • Power to investigative journalism
  • Media Council of Zimbabwe launched
  • Positive Mid-Term Review NiZA Media programme 2005-2008
  • Convergence and multi-media at National Arts Festival
  • Global media ethics conference in Zambia
  • An African Treaty on freedom of expression?
  • Economic reporting on Africa: still a boys club
  • Successful workshop on the transformation of national media in DRC


Medianews 25 - May 2007
MediaNews25 - May 2007.pdf (756 Kb)
  • World Newspaper Congress in Africa Not undisputed
  • Review of NiZA’s Media Sector Plan
  • New press bill might shrink freedom of expression
  • Second edition of Outside the Ballot Box
  • Natural resources in DRC: Media and CSOs join hands
  • Rádio Ecclésia via internet
  • MISA re-opens office in Angola
  • Citizen journalism: Media power to the people
  • ‘Until I see change, I’ll keep writing about poverty’
  • Report on the International Conference on Community Radio in Angola
  • Creeping media censorship in South Africa


MediaNews 24 - February 2007
MediaNews 24 - February 2007.pdf (548 Kb)
  • Zimbabwe’s Media to establish self regulatory media council
  • NiZA sponsors Namibian youths to be heard
  • MMPZ analyses gagging of independent media
  • Masterclass ‘Africa in the News’
  • A rare victory for freedom of speech in Zimbabwe
  • SABC and Telkom block self-confident ommunities’ right to media
  • New publications by JED
  • Synergy between radio stations during elections in DRC
  • Gender: moving from commitment to implementation
  • North - South NGO tensions around Media Development in Africa
  • NEW PUBLICATION : The Southern Africa Media Diversity Journal: Issue 2

MediaNews 23 - November 2006
MediaNews23-November2006.pdf (4190 Kb)
  • Minister denies NiZA’s subsidy request
  • Urgent need for community radio in Angola
  • TBI into streetsoccer
  • Rural Mozambique: stories of rights, rules and repression
  • Call to investigate journalists
  • SW Radio: ‘Zimbabwe’s real stories must be told’
  • New Book NSJ
  • Four investigative journos share 2006 John Manyarara Award
  • Optimism about Africa’s blogosphere
  • South Africa heeds protests delays pre-publication censorship Bill
  • New Media Program Manager: ‘There is no time to mourn’


MediaNews 22 - Aug 2006 -
MediaNews 22 - Aug 2006.pdf (499 Kb)
  • Revealing research on DRC media Freedom
  • New Manager for NiZA’s Media Programme
  • NiZA scholarship ‘the most wonderful blessing
  • IAJ and MISA Swaziland launch journalism training center in Swaziland
  • New and old challenges for Development Workshop Angola
  • Need an ICT plan? Call an eRider
  • New handbook on court reporting
  • Highway Africa celebrates its tenth anniversary
  • New media law for Angola
  • Urgent need for education on access to information rights
  • Voice of the people wins award


MediaNews 21 - May 2006 -
MediaNews 21 - May 2006.pdf (733 Kb)
  • South African tabloids: supporting democracy? (background)
  • DRC: Storm destroys transmitter (newsflash)
  • Kim Brice is leaving NiZA: 'It's time to shake things up' (interview)
  • New Regional Director for MISA (newsflash)
  • DRC: addressing pillaging of natural resources (background)
  • Research: HIV/AIDS under reported
  • The Big Issue Namibia opens Swakopmund depot (news)
  • Juggling in Namibia (reportage)
  • The Zimbabwean calls for feedback (newsflash)
  • The needs of media managers (reportage)
  • Handbook launched (newsflash)

MediaNews 20 - February 2006 -
MediaNews 20 - February 2006.pdf (281 Kb)
  • Marking Southern African media freedom
  • New partnerships in Mozambique and Swaziland
  • It's all about sustainability
  • Civil society: More could have been achieved at WSIS
  • New managing editor Behind the Mask
  • Swaziland's new constitution and media policy
  • Prize came at the right time
  • New co-ordinator SAMTRAN
  • Forging continental cohesion
  • New director SAIMED
  • My point of view

MediaNews 19 - November 2005 -
MediaNews-november2005.pdf (809 Kb)
  • Zimbabwe: repressing media through law
  • What Mushizi did next A community radio, rebels and people
  • Investigative journalist in 8 days
  • Louw wins press freedom award
  • First Grassroot Media Summit succesful
  • Global Forum for Media Development
  • African investigative journalists cross the border
  • African media and the Information Society
  • South Africa is no solved problem

MediaNews 18 - AUGUST 2005 -
medianews 18 august 2005.pdf (436 Kb):
  • Better training for community print media
  • Dialogue improves safety of journalists in DRC
  • Street newspaper enjoy soccer tournament
  • MISA’s quest for free media
  • FXI wing takes on the big boys
  • Dutch journalists experience Africa
MediaNews 17 - MAY 2005 -
MediaNews 17 May 2005.PDF (204 Kb):
  • Outside the ballot box
  • 25 Years Zimbabwe: "New breed of journalist has emerged"
  • Treasures of Bidoc
  • A Zambian journalist in Swaziland
  • The NSJ Exchange Programme
  • Gender Links: "No longer a lone cry"

MEDIANEWS 16 - FEBRUARY 2005 - medianews 16 February 2005.pdf (322 Kb):
  • New association for 250 grassroots newspapers
  • How the Mozambican media performed during election time
  • A powerful voice from behind bars
  • Zimbabwe hampered flow of information in run-up to elections
  • Echoes' journalists gauge interest all over the country
  • Botswana's media during election time: barely one article a day
  • Restrained by a 900-pound gorilla

MEDIANEWS 15 - OCTOBER 2004 - medianews_15_October_2004.pdf (68 Kb):
  • Bicycle-powered cell phones and other media-ICT oddities
  • Media and Gender Summit: Seeking the balance
  • Radio Maendeleo expands its reach in eastern Congo
  • Brand atheists, beer and white guilt
  • African investigative journalists join forces
  • Mokgósi, the only newspaper fully in Setswana
  • 'ICT’s for Democracy' and 'Techno-Hype or Info-Hope?'

MEDIANEWS 14 - JULY 2004 - medianews_14_July_2004.pdf (400 Kb):
  • Winner Cardoso Prize hitchhikes for investigative journalism in Mozambique
  • Propaganda and Peeping Toms
  • Monitoring e-mails is Zimbabwe’s latest eavesdropping plan
  • The Big Issue Namibia: A hand up, not a hand out!
  • Media for the people, by the people – thanks to The Big Issue
  • ‘We are all leaders’ - Local governance programme put into practice
  • Zapiro: Long walk to freetime

MEDIANEWS 13 - MAY 2004 - medianews 13 - may 2004.PDF (264 Kb):
  • Scoop: Mozambican academic degree in journalism
  • Southern Sun, a fixture in southern Namibia
  • ‘Access to media has increased’
  • What’s Behind the Mask?
  • A gathering storm?
  • A Congolese Media Congress puts in place a Media Observatory
  • Zapiro: 1994 - 2004

MEDIANEWS 12 - JANUARI 2004 - medianews 12 - januari 2004.PDF (206 Kb):
  • Travel 240 Kilometres to pick up your e-mail
  • JED – One of the DRC’s Most Valuable Assets
  • A chorus of voices is saying: 'Let go'
  • Walking up and down the World Summit on the Information Society
  • The 25% factor
  • “Poverty is public enemy number one”
  • Zapiro: Heavy Load


MEDIANEWS 11 OCTOBER 2003 - medianews 11 - october 2003.uk.PDF (323 Kb):
  • 'Journalism is about more than just creating awareness'
  • Internet: Blessing or Curse?
  • 'Fighting against AIDS is fighting against bureaucracy'
  • Angolan media and civil society eye to eye
  • ALL RISE! The people of Zimbabwe are standing to speak
  • Community traditions in peace building
  • Daily News interim editor Saidi: No fear
  • Zapiro: Quiet Diplomacy


MEDIANEWS 10 JULY 2003 - medianews 10-juli 2003-eng.PDF (331 Kb):
  • Zanzibar International Film Festival
  • View - hardly your ordinary magazine
  • Angola - media liberation in low gear
  • NiZA should make a video
  • Community radio, its power, its danger
  • Zapiro - demonising Mugabe


MEDIANEWS 09 APRIL 2003- medianews09_eng.PDF (1493 Kb):
  • AIPPA turns independent Zimbabwean media into the enemy
  • Journalism in Zimbabwe: A Most Dangerous Vocation
  • Aluta Continua Carlos!
  • 'The necessity for FXI has never been greater'
  • Winds of change blowing through Women’s Media Watch
  • Mobilising the critical mass with a cheerfully designed case
  • Zapiro: TRC Final Report
  • Complete newsletter in pdf (printerfriendly version)

MEDIANEWS 08 JANUARY 2003 - MediaNews_08_2003_eng..PDF (292 Kb):
  • In Memoriam Montgomery Cooper
  • Kwere Kwere: Journeys into strangeness
  • COMMENT - The big five
  • Improving efficiency and effectiveness of Media Training
  • Radio Pax reaches the whole of Sofala through its mobile studio
  • Michael Daka ‘practises what he’s been preaching’
  • CARTOON - ANC conference

MEDIANEWS 07 OCTOBER 2002 - MediaNews_2002_07_eng.PDF (247 Kb):
  • Zimbabwean takes over South African Mail & Guardian
  • Xenophobic sentiments about the sale of M&G
  • INTERVIEW - ‘NiZA’s Media Programme does not follow fashion’
  • COMMENT - Working together as an unanticipated by-product
  • PARTNER PROFILE - Rádio Ecclésia
  • Hivhop’s Tentacles
  • INTERVIEW - Jamal is glad ‘his’ radio does stir up debates
  • CARTOON - Checking for Reds

MEDIANEWS 06 JUNE 2002 - MediaNews_2002_6_eng.PDF (1465 Kb):
  • NEWS - What happens when South Africans watch the Dutch?
  • INTERVIEW - ‘Journalists can help establishing democracy in Zimbabwe’
  • COMMENT - African Broadcast Charter seeks international status
  • PARTNER PROFILE - Development Workshop
  • REVIEW – South African Broadcast media and the answer to globalisation
  • CARTOON - Hand over paedophile priests? (Zapiro 03 05 2002)


MEDIANEWS 05 (2002) - MediaNews_05_2002_eng.PDF (294 Kb):
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MEDIANEWS 03 (2001) - MediaNews2001_03_eng.PDF (806 Kb):
MEDIANEWS 02 (2001) - MediaNews_2001_02_eng.PDF (128 Kb):
MEDIANEWS 01 (2000) - MediaNews_2000_01_eng.PDF (103 Kb):