During this session, we want to engage with media practitioners and innovators in journalism, discuss the experiences from an East African perspective and provide pathways that would lead to practical and innovative solutions to the increasing challenge of providing high-quality journalism in a financially sustainable way. Session Objectives By the end of this session, participants […]
The East Festival is a 3 day virtual conference that brings together various stakeholders across the media and journalism sector with an aim to build a strong media community across Eastern Africa which comprises of media innovators and practitioners, investors, techies, journalism students, academics, NGOs and government regulators with a passion for quality journalism. The conference will be championing for media viability and media innovation in East Africa.
Navigating obstacles in Uganda's journalism.
This webinar will seek to share the vision of what is possible when African innovators tell their own stories and use storytelling in their work.
The Swichi DIY Toolkit was developed for small and medium-sized media houses to help them rethink their business models and create alternative sources of revenue.
The EAST festival will celebrate redefined roles of journalism in the region, interrogate media structures and routines in the wake of the complex and disrupted media ecology and explore the emergent storytelling that innovatively involve communities..
This event will discuss the results of The State of Innovation and Media Viability report in Tanzania during World Press Freedom Day, in Zanzibar, by UNESCO.