by admin | Nov 8, 2011 | MediaTrain Commendation, MediaTrain Comment
“Journalists are only interested in bad news. Journalists only like disasters and coups and suffering.” This is a real comment from a participant at a recent MediaTrain workshop in Kenya, but it echoes assertions made at practically every gathering...
by admin | Jul 17, 2011 | MediaTrain Commendation
Here’s rip-and-read stuff for any journalist in Nairobi or elsewhere who needs a story peg and way into this disaster. Pity the “worst disaster in the world” didn’t go into the second paragraph because that is where journalists will put it. But...
by admin | Jul 17, 2011 | MediaTrain Commendation
In the next weeks and months the media – local and international – is going to be run ragged by an unfolding disaster whose immensity we can only guess at. To galvanise governments and the public into giving to the right people in the right places, the...