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25 March, 2011
2011 FJPs Announced & Autumn School
The 2011 Future Journalists Programme (FJP) Participants have been named!
Congratulations and a warm welcome to all our new participants:
1 Akhona Valashiya Walter Sisulu University
2 Elethu Magele Walter Sisulu University
3 Khutso Eunice Mabokela University of Limpopo
4 Moses Mashwahla Moreroa University of Limpopo
5Portia Makore University of Fort Hare
6Sesethu Malgas University of Fort Hare
7Nokuthula Doreen Wathi Durban University of Technology
8Wendy Nolwazi Ngcobo Durban University of Technology
9Duschanka Hitzeroth University of Zululand
10Cherity Pumla Luthuli University of Zululand
11Nokwazi Khumalo University of Cape Town
12Devaksha Vallabhjee University of Cape Town
13Thabiso Sihlali Tshwane University of Technology
14Pearl Nicodemus Tshwane University of Technology
15Busisiwe Busenga University of Johannesburg
16Bongiwe Olwethu Tutu Rhodes University
17Sibulele Magini Rhodes University
18Megan Stacy Deana Cape Peninsula University Technology
19Bhekimpilo Dungeni Cape Peninsula University Technology
Autumn School: Mobile Phones as Tools for Journalism
The first workshops of the year, the Autumn School, will take place in the week 4-8 April 2011. The FJPs (as they are now aply called) will be covering the theme Mobile Phones as Tools for Journalism. They will learn how to use their mobile phones to produce visual material for broadcast and for multimedia platforms. Communications is going 'mobile' in Africa, and the FJPs will be acquiring just the skill needed to be a technology-savvy-21st-century-journalist! The main lesson here is that journalists do not need thousand of dollars worth of equipment to be able to produce quality broadcast material. Armed with a simple mobile phone, equipped with standard video and audio capability, with the aid of readily available freeware, like Audacity to edit footage- any journalist can tell their story!
FJps will be have practical-intense sessions with sessions like 'Video and Your Mobile Phone', where they will use their 'how to' guides, experimenting with their footage, editing and posting their podcasts to various online platforms.
Collaboration with LoveLife
Beyond being apiring journalists, FJPs are young people, who are growing each day, experiencing life in its entirety. They, alike every other youth in the country, are grippling with and experiencing the essense of sexuality,love and life. Didn't we all! FJP is therefore collaborating with LoveLife for this Autumn School. FJPs will be working around the sub-theme 'Sexuality in Grahamstown' as a focus for this workshop. We thought it would be great to have LoveLife come in to speak about this topic; the politics of sexuality, and how to best report on its different facets. So, the combination of learning to use mobile phones as tools for journalism, and tackling the issue of how to report sexuality stories will not only benefit the students professionally, but they will also gain interpersonal growth. The students will have a field trip to the LoveLife offices in Grahamstown, interacting with the Grahamstown LoveLife volunteer group. They will do interviews and document some of the stories the volunteers have to share, producing videos in the end. These videos will be posted both on the FJP blogsite and on the LoveLife website.
The fun side of FJP
This workshop promises a significant and fun-learning curve for the FJPs. Of course, which student wouldn't have a great time under the creative and knowledgeable hand of Alette Schoon, TV Lecturer at Rhodes and FJP trainer! Alette has been experimenting with this theme for some time now, working with citizen journalists from Grocott's Mail, and has a lot to offer. More on the Grocott's Mail citizen journalism newsroom can be found HERE.
To Lookout For
RESULTS! We at FJP and Highway Africa are eager to see the results from this Autumn School. Truly, it epitomises what we are about. We believe in the empowerment of young African journalist and training them exploit the benefits and not fear new media technology. FJPs therefore should all be geared up for a great workshop. Take out those cell phones, cameras, mics and 'reporter-voices'. Cellphone Journalism, here we come!
By: Nqobile (Buthelezi) Sibisi
FJP Assistant Coordinator
Congratulations and a warm welcome to all our new participants:
1 Akhona Valashiya Walter Sisulu University
2 Elethu Magele Walter Sisulu University
3 Khutso Eunice Mabokela University of Limpopo
4 Moses Mashwahla Moreroa University of Limpopo
5Portia Makore University of Fort Hare
6Sesethu Malgas University of Fort Hare
7Nokuthula Doreen Wathi Durban University of Technology
8Wendy Nolwazi Ngcobo Durban University of Technology
9Duschanka Hitzeroth University of Zululand
10Cherity Pumla Luthuli University of Zululand
11Nokwazi Khumalo University of Cape Town
12Devaksha Vallabhjee University of Cape Town
13Thabiso Sihlali Tshwane University of Technology
14Pearl Nicodemus Tshwane University of Technology
15Busisiwe Busenga University of Johannesburg
16Bongiwe Olwethu Tutu Rhodes University
17Sibulele Magini Rhodes University
18Megan Stacy Deana Cape Peninsula University Technology
19Bhekimpilo Dungeni Cape Peninsula University Technology
Autumn School: Mobile Phones as Tools for Journalism
The first workshops of the year, the Autumn School, will take place in the week 4-8 April 2011. The FJPs (as they are now aply called) will be covering the theme Mobile Phones as Tools for Journalism. They will learn how to use their mobile phones to produce visual material for broadcast and for multimedia platforms. Communications is going 'mobile' in Africa, and the FJPs will be acquiring just the skill needed to be a technology-savvy-21st-century-journalist! The main lesson here is that journalists do not need thousand of dollars worth of equipment to be able to produce quality broadcast material. Armed with a simple mobile phone, equipped with standard video and audio capability, with the aid of readily available freeware, like Audacity to edit footage- any journalist can tell their story!
FJps will be have practical-intense sessions with sessions like 'Video and Your Mobile Phone', where they will use their 'how to' guides, experimenting with their footage, editing and posting their podcasts to various online platforms.
Collaboration with LoveLife
Beyond being apiring journalists, FJPs are young people, who are growing each day, experiencing life in its entirety. They, alike every other youth in the country, are grippling with and experiencing the essense of sexuality,love and life. Didn't we all! FJP is therefore collaborating with LoveLife for this Autumn School. FJPs will be working around the sub-theme 'Sexuality in Grahamstown' as a focus for this workshop. We thought it would be great to have LoveLife come in to speak about this topic; the politics of sexuality, and how to best report on its different facets. So, the combination of learning to use mobile phones as tools for journalism, and tackling the issue of how to report sexuality stories will not only benefit the students professionally, but they will also gain interpersonal growth. The students will have a field trip to the LoveLife offices in Grahamstown, interacting with the Grahamstown LoveLife volunteer group. They will do interviews and document some of the stories the volunteers have to share, producing videos in the end. These videos will be posted both on the FJP blogsite and on the LoveLife website.
The fun side of FJP
This workshop promises a significant and fun-learning curve for the FJPs. Of course, which student wouldn't have a great time under the creative and knowledgeable hand of Alette Schoon, TV Lecturer at Rhodes and FJP trainer! Alette has been experimenting with this theme for some time now, working with citizen journalists from Grocott's Mail, and has a lot to offer. More on the Grocott's Mail citizen journalism newsroom can be found HERE.
To Lookout For
RESULTS! We at FJP and Highway Africa are eager to see the results from this Autumn School. Truly, it epitomises what we are about. We believe in the empowerment of young African journalist and training them exploit the benefits and not fear new media technology. FJPs therefore should all be geared up for a great workshop. Take out those cell phones, cameras, mics and 'reporter-voices'. Cellphone Journalism, here we come!
By: Nqobile (Buthelezi) Sibisi
FJP Assistant Coordinator
14 September, 2007
The New African Storytellers – convergence to enlightenment
Nqobile Buthelezi
Our forefathers told stories of creation by looking into the stars as their distant guides for direction, but future journalists tell tales of civilization and innovation guided by mediums distinct to our time and space.
Highway Africa 2007 marks the birth of the Future Journalist Programme, an initiative by young and vibrant South African media students who tell stories of the world in their true essence as they unfold. However, faced with the dichotomy between new media forms and the traditional media, we have to find ways to dissolve this barrier and attain our positions as agents of an integrated form of reporting, that does not succumb to either the old or new but to both.
The heated discussion during this year's Highway Africa was whether blogging and citizen reporting should at all be considered as 'professional journalism' or merely as a hobby occupying a space to express individual feelings and opinionated commentary on current affairs. This argument generates from the 'apparent' lack of ethical knowledge and disciplinary standard procedure in terms of how bloggers and citizen journalists represent stories. However, digital storytelling should not be seen as a hindering approach that jeopardises the quality and professionalism of journalism (this issue forming the main theme of the conference).
We have shifted into an era of convergence, a revolution driven by technology that enables the flattening of hierarchical structures, where previously segregated media platforms are now merged in one medium, namely the internet. This movement doesn't entail the unification of content, certainly not. The media should keep pluralism at its highest where different voices tackle agendas from various angles, therefore allowing the public to decide for themselves. After all Africa is a large continent and is a hub of diverse people, languages, culture and religion.
Bloggers, as much as journalists have a functional role to play in the media and the society at large. As Ndesanjo Macha stated, during the Digital Citizen Indaba , humans have the urge to share and express what they see, feel and think, this being a continuation of an old African tradition. Those with the innate ability to tell stories must claim their prehistoric right to tell these stories and document this history, however bearing in mind that they are agents who are reporting in the twenty first century. In his talk, Ndesanjo called this shift as "Moving from rockpaintings to Mental Acrobatics".
Media reporting brings question to power and therefore should be done accordingly, avoiding the downfall of nations. This thought though, shouldn't limit citizen reporters in fulfilling their right to tell stories as they see them. After all, we can never agree on how to report, but can agree on the fact that every story deserves to be told.
Our forefathers told stories of creation by looking into the stars as their distant guides for direction, but future journalists tell tales of civilization and innovation guided by mediums distinct to our time and space.
Highway Africa 2007 marks the birth of the Future Journalist Programme, an initiative by young and vibrant South African media students who tell stories of the world in their true essence as they unfold. However, faced with the dichotomy between new media forms and the traditional media, we have to find ways to dissolve this barrier and attain our positions as agents of an integrated form of reporting, that does not succumb to either the old or new but to both.
The heated discussion during this year's Highway Africa was whether blogging and citizen reporting should at all be considered as 'professional journalism' or merely as a hobby occupying a space to express individual feelings and opinionated commentary on current affairs. This argument generates from the 'apparent' lack of ethical knowledge and disciplinary standard procedure in terms of how bloggers and citizen journalists represent stories. However, digital storytelling should not be seen as a hindering approach that jeopardises the quality and professionalism of journalism (this issue forming the main theme of the conference).
We have shifted into an era of convergence, a revolution driven by technology that enables the flattening of hierarchical structures, where previously segregated media platforms are now merged in one medium, namely the internet. This movement doesn't entail the unification of content, certainly not. The media should keep pluralism at its highest where different voices tackle agendas from various angles, therefore allowing the public to decide for themselves. After all Africa is a large continent and is a hub of diverse people, languages, culture and religion.
Bloggers, as much as journalists have a functional role to play in the media and the society at large. As Ndesanjo Macha stated, during the Digital Citizen Indaba , humans have the urge to share and express what they see, feel and think, this being a continuation of an old African tradition. Those with the innate ability to tell stories must claim their prehistoric right to tell these stories and document this history, however bearing in mind that they are agents who are reporting in the twenty first century. In his talk, Ndesanjo called this shift as "Moving from rockpaintings to Mental Acrobatics".
Media reporting brings question to power and therefore should be done accordingly, avoiding the downfall of nations. This thought though, shouldn't limit citizen reporters in fulfilling their right to tell stories as they see them. After all, we can never agree on how to report, but can agree on the fact that every story deserves to be told.
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