Episode Four: Mental Health of Journalists
In our final episode of the ‘Covid-19 for Journalists’ podcast series, we speak about the mental health of journalists, and duty of care of editors and senior management in news organisations, to journalists.
Dr Yemisi Akinbobola, is joined by Qaanitah Hunter, Politics Editor at South Africa’s News24, and Stephanie Busari, Editor at CNN Africa.
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Episode Three: Fact-Checking and Verification
In this third episode of our four-part podcast series, Covid-19 for Journalists, we discuss Fact-Checking and Verification.
Dr Yemisi Akinbobola is joined by Jane Godia, Capacity Building Manager, Africa, for WAN-IFRA’s Women in News; Motunrayo Joel, Africa Checks’ Nigeria deputy editor; and Paul Bradshaw, BBC data journalist and Associate Professor at Birmingham City University.
We talk: the differences between fact-checking and verification, how newsrooms are fact-checking world leaders like Donald Trump, and the need for media literacy alongside technological responses to misinformation.
Links discussed in this episode:
- AfricaCheck
- Women in News
- Brazilian Fact-Checking Project
- Online Journalism Blog
- Birmingham City University
Episode Two: Innovative Reporting
In this second episode of COVID-19 for Journalists, we discuss innovative reporting and exploring emerging best practices.
Dr Yemisi Akinbobola is joined by Ferial Haffajee, Daily Maverick, South Africa; Chidi Uguru, Big Cabal Media, Nigeria; Blaise Aboh, Orodata, Nigeria; Culton Scovia, BBS TV, Uganda, and Eunice Kilonzo, Global Health Journalist, Kenya.
We talk: Maps, surveillance, digital tracking, missing narratives, solutions journalism, mobile journalism, curfew and movement, privacy v public health and telling the good news.
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Episode One: Safety and Responsibility
This is the first of a four-part podcast series called COVID-19 for Journalists. In this episode we speak with Queenter Mbori and Maria Salazar-Ferro.
Queenter Mbori is an Editor with The Standard Group and the President Standard Group Women Network. Maria Salazar Ferro is director of CPJ’s Emergencies Department, overseeing the organization’s assistance and safety work worldwide. She is president of the board of the ACOS (A Culture of Safety) Alliance, a coalition aimed at improving protections for freelancers. She joined CPJ in 2005 and has served as coordinator for the Journalist Assistance Program and the Global Campaign Against Impunity, and as senior research associate for the Americas program.
We speak on a range of topics from journalists’ safety to misinformation, surveillance and data tracking.
Links discussed in this episode:
- Committee to Protect Journalists: https://cpj.org/
- Standard Media: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/
- AfricaCheck: https://africacheck.org/
