ftm Radio Page - November 8, 2013

Challenge accepted, challenges remain
“very well told”

A radio report series titled ‘Phone Farming’ took top honors from the first round of the African Story Challenge, presented at the African Media Leaders Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Reporter/producer Nana Boakye-Yiadom produced the series for Accra, Ghana-based Citi FM. The story’s theme reflects the changing African media sphere: rural farmers using text messaging technologies.

“Boakye-Yiadom’s story was very well told,” said award jury chairperson Omar Ben Yedder, quoted by spyghana.com (November 7) “You can tell he has done the leg work: there’s lots of first hand evidence, he has spoken to people on the ground and went around the country to find out the impact of technologies on farmers.”

Citi FM is no stranger to broadcasting awards. At last year’s Telkom Highway Africa Awards they were topped as the most innovative newsroom in Africa. The station’s morning program won a BBC Africa’s radio award in 2007 for most interactive program.  The privately owned station, which broadcasts on FM from Accra and across Ghana on the web, celebrated its ninth anniversary this week.

Of the 20 finalists, an eNews Channel Africa (eNCA) report on land inequalities in South Africa by reporter Diana Neille was first runner-up. Citizen TV’s Alex Chamwada’s story on food distribution in southern Somalia was second runner-up. Cable and web-based eNCA is Africa’s first 24-hour news channel. A Synovate survey in May this year showed a 50% audience share for Citizen TV in Kenya. (See more on media in Africa here)

The African Story Challenge is a grant-in-aid project of the African Media Initiative (AMI)and the International Center for Journalists, primarily funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The two-year program invites journalists from all African media “to experiment with new content ideas and ways to engage audiences through mobile technology, social media and other innovative tools,” according to the official website. The competition has five themes with separate awards: agriculture and food security (just awarded), diseases - prevention and treatment, My Africa-2063, maternal and child health and business and technology. The African Story challenge is the brain-child of former BBC Network Africa editor Joseph Warungu, now a director at AMI. Awards for the remaining rounds will be announced through the next year.

Suspects apprehended in jurno murders
Reporting wherever necessary

A police source in northern Mali said “a dozen suspects have been arrested since the murder of two Radio France International journalists,” reported AFP (November 4). On assignment for RFI, Ghislanine Dupont and Claude Verlon were kidnapped and shot dead after attempting to interview a spokesperson for Tuareg separatists. French armed forces operating in the area were unable to immediately track the murderers. French national radio channel Europe 1 reported five suspects arrested Sunday night (November 3) at two rebel encampments and turned over to French forces.

RFI has long had a broad footprint in Africa, where the French language is widely spoken. Lightly armed French, Malian and United Nations troops have attempted to steady northeastern Mali, which borders Niger. Troops have undertaken “operation” to “identify a certain number of people in the camps,” said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius to national radio channel RTL (November 4). (See more on media in Africa here)

Distress at RFI headquarters in Paris was palpable, black crepe bordering windows. “We cannot comprehend the reasons for the murder,” said France Médias Monde president Marie-Christine Saragosse to RTL, in Mali to repatriate the bodies of Dupont and Verlon. “We do not want to go to Kidal (where the murders took place) but, nevertheless, it is Mali and there are elections to cover. We will be wherever it is necessary for us to be.” (JMH)

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