JOURNALISM
Big Money Media is Older than You Think
A Q&A with Victor Pickard, University of Pennsyvania
Towards a Future of African Magazines
Lack of funding is an unfortunate scenario that has bedeviled a great number of African literary magazines and companies like ours, too. Save for a number of magazines such as Omenana, Agbowo, Olongo Africa, Isele magazine, and others who pay, the many others do not.
Popula Film Club: Global Journalism Evolves, in ‘Writing with Fire’
a new Oscar-nominated documentary from India
Africans trying to exit Ukraine battle racism
Thousands of Africans from countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Somalia and other countries languish under the disproportionate cold of eastern Europe as they wait at transit points and the border.
Gizmodo Media Workers Go On Strike, Ask Readers Not to Visit the Company’s Websites
The action comes after the GMG Union contract, seeking negotiations on wages and healthcare standards and more, expired at midnight.
Finding Bàrà: History at an Empire Town
Bàrà was the burial site of the Aláàfin (King) of Ọ̀yọ́, ruler over the empire and its millions of subjects. “It is a spiritual site. When a new Aláàfin was to be installed, the Aláàfin-elect must come here to worship the past Aláàfins."
African Football Under the Western Gaze
The Western gaze comes from the idea that Eurocentrism influences the way we (Africans) are perceived, the way we think, and how we in turn see ourselves.
‘So Soon After 9/11’
Documentarians Steven Rosenbaum and Pamela Yoder discuss their new film, The Outsider, about the construction of the 9/11 Museum and Memorial and why it feels so cut off from New York City and from the last 20 years.
Is the “journalism crisis” just a capitalism crisis?
A roundtable on addressing the structural breakdown of media
Crazy Little Things out of the Blues
I’m doing something crazy. There is in fact no exact English word to describe it. It is called fait divers which is a French phrase for very brief newspaper reportage of unusual happenings and dark occurrences, like accidents or crimes, that befall ordinary, insignificant people.