Category: Career

Event highlights approaches to fighting misinformation in African newsrooms

In July, journalists across Africa gathered in Nairobi, Kenya to showcase the reporting produced by African women working in a variety of media. At this year’s African Women in the Media (AWiM) conference, which was started in 2016 by Dr. Yemisi Akinbobola, and has as its mission to positively impact the way media functions in […]

Event highlights approaches to fighting misinformation in African newsrooms

In July, journalists across Africa gathered in Nairobi, Kenya to showcase the reporting produced by African women working in a variety of media. At this year’s African Women in the Media (AWiM) conference, which was started in 2016 by Dr. Yemisi Akinbobola, and has as its mission to positively impact the way media functions in […]

Rest in Peace Hodan Nalayeh: Her Story in Her Own Words

Hodan Nalayeh was the founder of Integration TV, a platform she set up so that she can change the narrative of Somalia in the news. She was killed in an Al-Shabaab bombing today, alongside her husband, and leaves behind two children. I was fortunate to interview Hodan in March for our podcast Her Media Diary. […]

How to Get a Grant

Becoming a grantee of the 2017/18 International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) Howard Buffet Fund for Women Journalists, was a rare opportunity for me which has boosted my career. I am passionate about reporting issues relating to women development in my community, and the grant gave me the opportunity to reach more women in their localities and […]

How to Get a Grant

Becoming a grantee of the 2017/18 International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) Howard Buffet Fund for Women Journalists, was a rare opportunity for me which has boosted my career. I am passionate about reporting issues relating to women development in my community, and the grant gave me the opportunity to reach more women in their localities and […]

The Inverted Pyramid is dying; don’t let your writing follow suit

Finally, after centuries in journalism schools, conferences and seminars, the inverted pyramid style of news writing is on its last legs. Dying out, the ghosts of this method can often be seen in traditional newspaper writing and radio bulletins. Don’t take my word for it; there’s a whole raft of academic papers and features on […]

How to Use Your Instagram as a Calling Card

Let’s face it; Instagram is like fufu, mieliepap, ugali or banku – you either like it and indulge all the time, or you don’t. But what none of us can deny is that Instagram is indeed one of several meals that enrich the soup called social media. Whether you have 500k followers or 50 followers, […]

How to Plan a Conference

Planning #AWIM18 conference outside my 9-5 life was not so easy. The fact that I was outside the country made it more difficult than I expected. Fortunately, I had good people and organisations around me. Gotcha Communications managed the event while Butterfly Tourism handled the travel and accommodation arrangements. My network of friends and AWIM […]

AWIM17 The Highlights

The 2017 edition of the AWIM conference (#AWIM17) held at the Birmingham City University at a time that I was heavily pregnant with my third child. It was only 6 weeks to my due date. The conference focused on the kind of African women that work in British media, the issues around the representation of […]

Three Ways To Maximise Your Time on LinkedIn

There are so many social media platforms today, you would be forgiven if you thought all that you can possibly do there is to tell your immediate circle of influence what you are doing, and how. But they can do more. Social media platforms not only put the world at your fingertips, they can help […]