CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Competition 2016 now OPEN for entries

ALL submissions can be made via the entry form website.

Category information and full details on how to enter, also can be found at the Awards’ website. 

Closing date for entries is March 24th 2016.  As the Competition is open for a limited period only, journalists are requested to submit your entry now and be part of the most prestigious journalist awards on the continent.

The 20th African Journalist Awards 2015 were held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi to crown and celebrate the crème de la crème in different journalism fields across Africa. 

On Saturday, October 10th 2015 we crowned Hyacinthe Boowurosigue Sanou from Burkina Faso The CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2015.

Here below he is pictured with President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Deborah Rayner SVP International Newsgathering TV and Digital and Tim Jacobs CEO MultiChoice Africa.

Opportunity for journalists: European Journalism Centre launches free data journalism course

The European Journalism Centre (EJC) is excited to announce the launch of LEARNO.NET - a cutting-edge, online video training platform for journalists.

LEARNO.NET is made possible through the support of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Google, and the World Bank.

The platform launches with 4 free courses:

·         Google Search for Journalists
by Nicholas Whitaker
This course will teach you how to use Google search more efficiently and reveal some of its secrets that are useful for any of your research online.

·         Verification: The Basics
by Craig Silverman, Claire Wardle
In the age of the Internet, rumours and hoaxes quickly spread during breaking news situations. As a result, there is an increased need for journalists to sort real, authentic content from the fakes. This course will provide the basics on how to get started with verifying online information.

·         Doing Journalism with Data: First Steps, Skills and Tools
by Paul Bradshaw, Alberto Cairo, Steve Doig, Simon Rogers, Nicolas Kayser-Bril
Comprising of video lectures, tutorials, assignments, readings and discussion forums, this course is open to anyone in the world with an Internet connection who wants to tell stories with data.

·         Managing Data Journalism Projects
by Jacopo Ottaviani
Bringing a data journalism project to a good end is not an easy task. There are a lot of variables and processes at play that need to be managed and accounted for before the project can be produced and in the end published.

Website: http://learno.net
Contact: info@learno.net
Twitter: @learnonet
Facebook: https://facebook.com/learnonet

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