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AFRICA Get YoungGun offers now before closing dateThere are just 14 days left to enter the Young Guns advertising and digital awards, which close on Friday 30 October 2009; entries for student awards close on Friday 6 November 2009 and creative briefs is Friday 13 November. 16 Oct 2009 06:58 AFRICA African opportunities in the digital era
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AFRICA Free newspaper subscriptions work in France
AFRICA Free newspaper subscriptions work in France
AFRICA World Literacy Day reintroduces serials
AFRICA World Literacy Day reintroduces serials
AFRICA Press freedom category added to WAN Young Reader Prize
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ACCRA: The 2009 Africa Media Leadership Conference took place 4 - 7 October 2009 in Accra, Ghana. The media summit hosted 100 CEOs and editors-in-chief of African media who debated how their companies could harness and monetise youthful audiences, who are increasingly using mobile phones and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to communicate and access news and information. 
The French government's decision to give free nationwide subscriptions, from 1 October 2009 are part of new subsidies to the French press totalling €600 million over three years. The publishers provide the newspapers free and the government pays for distribution. The campaign is aimed at boosting newspaper readership in the youth market. 
PARIS, FRANCE & DARMSTADT, GERMANY: The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is providing the world's newspapers with an eight-part serialised story for publication around International Literacy Day, yesterday, Tuesday, 8 September 2009, to help parents and teachers instil a love of reading in young people. 
The World Young Reader Prize, an annual award from the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) to recognise newspapers that do the most to develop young readership, has added a press freedom category. This will honour newspapers that teach effectively about the fragility and importance of press freedom in a democratic society. 
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