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ZambiaCategoriesRadio showsSpecial sectionsRelated sectorsIn the news | Govt to revise media lawsMedia laws will be revised to better regulate journalists. Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communications, Bitange Ndemo says this will ensure accreditation of journalists. He says there is also need for stringent rules for use of social media to curb hate speech. Source:... read more 15 Mar 2013 Local media hailed for excellent election coverageIEBC (The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission) has hailed the local media, security officials and other stakeholders for the role they played in ensuring a successful election. IEBC chairman, Isaak Hassan says he was specifically happy with the way journalists handled the election... read more 11 Mar 2013 Media Council brief on electionsThe Media Council of Kenya today, 21 February 2013, addressed media at a press conference on key issues regarding coverage of the ongoing electoral campaigns and expectations during the general elections. Haron Mwangi was expected to describe the critical role media will play in informing the public... read more 21 Feb 2013 Nominations open for 2013 Kenyan Blog AwardsThe inaugural BAKE (Bloggers Association of Kenya) Blog Awards was a surprise in terms of the immense interest it generated and the level of participation through blog submissions and voting. The awards also served as a discovery conduits for blogs. 300 blogs were submitted and an estimated 10 000... read more 10 Jan 2013 mapIT develops interactive map for marathonmapIT, powered by TomTom, developed an interactive mapping tool using the deCarta web mapping API (Application Programming Interface) to improve the experience of both participants as well as spectators at the Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon 2012, which took place on Sunday, 28 October 2012. The... read more 30 Oct 2012 2012 AITEC East Africa ICT Summit releases event guideThe AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2012, taking place from 24-25 October 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya, is a multi-faceted event that will draw together the many strands of a vibrant growth market, underpinning high-level business-to-business services with widespread consumer engagement in modern mobile... read more 19 Oct 2012 BFMA Conference programme releasedThe fourth annual Broadcast, Film & Music Africa (BFMA) Conference, hosted by AITEC Africa set to take place from 10-11 July 2012 at the Oshwal Centre in Nairobi, Kenya has released the latest programme of the upcoming conference. Download the programme (Size: 864KB).... read more 28 Jun 2012 A-EXIM set for Kenya in June 2012A-EXIM, a trade fair focusing exclusively on the export and import industry will take place at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya, from 15-18 June 2012. The trade fair reflects the global market in every sector - from ICT to infrastructure, agribusiness, transport... read more 1 Feb 2012 New communications manager at AccessKenyaAccessKenya Group, a corporate data and infrastructure provider in Kenya, has appointed Kevin Keya as the new group communications manager following the departure of Nancy Imunde a few months ago. Keya who brings over five years experience in media and public relations joined AccessKenya after... read more 12 Sep 2011 Looking for African women leadersThe Kuwa Ajabu Foundation ("be extraordinary") is a non-profit organisation which empowers and builds sustainable capacity in the form of job creation for young, unemployed people across Africa. Affiliate partners include the UN, Women In Finance, Menprow and the fully black-owned Blue Rain... read more 8 Apr 2011 New journalism, communications program offered in KenyaThe Presbyterian University of East Africa School of Communications Studies and The Centre for Art and Media Entrepreneurship in Africa (CAMERAFRICA) in Kenya have partnered to offer an Executive Diploma in Journalism and Communications Program starting March 2011. The curriculum is designed with... read more 2 Mar 2011 Kenyan agency receives international awardclick to enlargeKenyan marketing and public relations agency, Exclamation Marketing, received the International Star Award for Leadership in Quality and Excellence at a ceremony in Salons, Concorde of the Palais des Congres of Paris on 21 April 2008. The company received the award in the gold... read more 7 May 2008 Journalists in exileOver the past six years, the Committee to Protect Journalists has documented 243 cases of journalists who have been forced to flee their home country to avoid harassment and imprisonment. On average, three journalists a month make this escape, with less than 15% of them ever seeing home again.... read more 20 Jun 2007 Kenyan farmers connect to better pricesAfrica's small farmers often fall victim to local traders who dictate prices below market rates. But in rural Kenya farmers now have technology in hand that cuts out the middleman. Gretchen Wilson reports 25 Apr 2007 Standard Chartered sending SA team to Greatest Race on EarthInternational bank Standard Chartered South Africa recently announced its sponsorship of a South African women's team to compete in the third Standard Chartered Greatest Race on Earth 2006/7, a four-leg relay marathon contested over a period of five months in Nairobi, Singapore, Mumbai and Hong... read more 13 Oct 2006 R1 million giveaway marks end of Africa tourMetro FM celebrated its twentieth birthday last week by giving R1 million to lucky listener Neelen Jeffries from Eesterus in the east of Pretoria at Maropeng, The Cradle of Humankind. The party brought to a close the station's "I Am An African" tour, in which it broadcast from 11 countries in 20... read more 27 Sep 2006 24/7 Pan African TV channel coming soonJournalism.co.za reports that a proposed 24-hour Pan African television channel, to be known as A-24, could be set up by next year. Kenyan-based company Camerapix says it will follow the format of pan-Arabic television channel, Al-Jazeera, and is intended to counter Western negative publicity of... read more 17 Aug 2006 Instant Grass takes root in RussiaInstant Grass, the youth trendspotting agency, has set up shop in Moscow in its first step to providing youth insights and strategies to marketers operating in key developing markets across the globe. The network of trendspotters or 'grasses' in Russia will initially focus on Moscow, St Petersburg... read more 17 Nov 2005 Joe Louw laid to restJoe Louw, former SABC producer and veteran journalist, was buried in Johannesburg this weekend after succumbing to colonic cancer last Friday. He was famous for photographing the assassination of Martin Luther King junior in 1968. Louw, who worked for many of South Africa's media houses, was... read more 11 Jul 2004 7th International Design Indaba Early Bird OfferBook your three-day Design Indaba pass before 16 January 2004 and you will receive 10% off the standard price of R3 000 with the Early Bird Special. The 7th International Design Indaba will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on 25 - 27 February 2004. It's a unique... read more 11 Jan 2004 Kenyan wins Natali PrizeInvestigative journalist Ken Opala of Kenya has been awarded the gold medal in the 2003 Natali Prize, one of the world's leading journalistic awards. Opala, who has received acclaim for his reporting on death row convicts, was also the winner of the regional prize for Africa. 31 Oct 2003 South African Cannes entriesThere is a total of 531 South African entries to this year's Cannes Lions Festival: 133 – Film; 316 – Print & Outdoor; 29 – Cyber; 35 – Media; Direct Marketing – 18. This year's entries are 5% below that of 2002. Other African entries include 14 from Kenya and 4 from Mozambique. 16 Jun 2003 Kenya decrees free HIV/Aids adsThe government of Kenya has made it mandatory for broadcasting stations to set aside a percentage of their airtime for free advertisements to create public awareness and behaviour change in the war on HIV/Aids. 14 Apr 2003 Supa Strikas adds Kenyan home team advantageThe popular soccer comic, Supa Strikas has launched in Kenya this weekend, bringing the total circulation to an impressive 1,1 million copies per month. Supa Strikas will be carried by the Saturday Nation newspaper, part of the Nation Media Group, giving the product a circulation in excess of 176... read more 25 Feb 2003 Kenyan Agency Looking For SA Agency AffiliationThe managing director of independant Kenyan agency Ingenue will be in SA between the months of June and July to find an agency to affiliate with. Several SA companies are opening branches in the East Africa region including software, telecommunications, beverage and fast food companies to name a... read more 13 May 2002 AU appoints official publisherThe African Union (formerly the Organisation of African Unity) has appointed Millenium Communications, a consortium of South African and Kenyan business interests, as their official publisher. The company therefore also has the exclusive right to publish the African Union Business Directory, a... read more 13 Mar 2002 |
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