For readers in the Washington area, Tuesday morning from 10:00 - 11:30am, the Center for International Media Assistance, the National Endowment for Democracy Africa Program and the Solidarity Center will be hosting a roundtable discussion entitled "Independent Media in East…
One more player is coming to the East African media marketplace. Al Jazeera to open Swahili service (Daily Maverick): This is big news for the East African media market, which is already the most vigorous in Africa, and is a…
Karen Rothmyer has a "terrific and necessary" piece in the Columbia Journalism Review headlined "Hiding the Real Africa; why NGOs prefer bad news" about stereotyped images of Africans in poverty in the U.S. media and the influence of NGOs working…
Just in time for the election in Uganda, the Star in Nairobi has launched its website. The Star began as a competing daily to the Nation and Standard and to the other tabloids during my time in Nairobi. It quickly…
Expressions Today, "East Africa's Independent Media Review", in its weekly "The Bulletin" feature, takes a look at last week's coverage of public extra-judicial executions by the police on Langata Road in Nairobi: And finally, the unnamed citizen who pictured Flying…
To me, the government-sponsored raid on the Standard newspaper in the spring of 2006 was a signal event in current Kenyan politics. Clearly anti-democratic and without excuse. Condemned strongly by the U.S. Ambassador at the time, Mark Bellamy and the…
Journalist abduction (International Freedom of Expression Clearing House on allafrica.com) (See also Jina Moore blog) A Radio Simba journalist, Arafat Nzito, has been missing since 3 November 2010 and his whereabouts remain unknown. Nzito, 23 years old, was picked up by…
The blog of the Committee to Protect Journalists gives an assessment of the state of media coverage of the Somaliland elections. I thought this was particularly interesting: In comparison to greater Somalia, however, where insurgents banned viewing the World Cup…
Mutumu Mathiu, Managing Editor of the Daily Nation, explains the confusion about the facts of the grenade killings in Uhuru Park: For every inaccurate report in the newspaper, there is a chain of people who have lied and misled the…
"Kenya bookshops refuse politically sensitive books" This is a good piece that will help with an understanding of the actual limits on freedom of expression in Kenya as it relates to anything that might offend powerful members of the political…