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[size=15pt]Free training opportunity for African journalists [/size]
     
News - Africa 
By World Press Photo     
Friday, 17 April 2009 

African journalists are being offered free training so that they can project their own view of Africa instead of depending on foreign news organisations. The initiative, entitled Twenty Ten, comes as South Africa prepares to host the World Cup in 2010. The organisation behind it, World Press Photo, has sent a news release to this site promoting the scheme.

World Press Photo Foundation , Free Voice , Africa Media Online and lokaalmondiaal invite African journalists from different professional backgrounds (photo, print and radio) to participate in free international training in the run-up to, and during, the FIFA World Cup in South Africa in 2010.Football is an integral aspect of life all over Africa, as well as in the rest of the world. In order to give African journalists a voice, both on the African continent, as well as worldwide a new project is inspired by the 2010 FIFA World Cup , which is being organized on the African continent for the first time. Professional print journalists, photojournalists and radio journalists of African nationality and currently living in Africa can apply for the project through the website www.africamedia-allstars.net.The initiative, called Twenty Ten aims to offer African citizens the opportunity to experience their own view of African reality, as opposed to depending on foreign news organizations. This multidisciplinary media project will focus on strengthening African journalists from the various disciplines. It aims to encourage media professionals to creatively produce and distribute articles, images, broadcasts and multimedia productions related to African football. African media will be encouraged to publish the created content free of charge. At the end of May a total of 108 participants will be selected, by an independent professional commission. This group will be known as the All Stars. At the end of 2009, a select few of the All Stars will qualify to become part of the Dream Team that will travel to South Africa during the World Cup in 2010 to report on the event.Selected All Stars will first receive a four-to-six-week online refresher course, which will focus on technical and journalistic skills. Upon successful completion of the online course they will be invited to attend an eight-day workshop. The workshop will focus on improving your storytelling techniques and will stimulate the participant’s creativity to report about the role, importance and impact of football in Africa. In addition to improving general reporting skills, the project aims to ensure that the stories that the selected African journalists produce can be read, seen or heard throughout Africa and beyond. Therefore stories that are produced during the workshop will be selected, for distribution within and outside of Africa. The journalist – and, if applicable, his or her employer - will always be credited.At the end of 2009 an independent selection committee will evaluate the work each All Star has produced during the workshops and afterwards. The 18 participants with the highest quality of work will be invited to join the Dream Team. Members of the Dream Team will be invited to travel to South Africa to cover the World Cup in June/July 2010. The deadline to register and receive a username and password is 4 May 2009. After 7 May, independent experts will judge the application. There will be different teams of experts to judge the applications made by print journalists, photojournalists and radio journalists.

You can find out more about the scheme by contacting Katusha Sol.  Katusha (at) worldpressphoto.org.

Source: http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/content/view/377/1/