MEDIA:  Citizen Journalism Opening Up Political Space in Africa
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HELSINKI, Oct 19 (IPS) - Anyone with a mobile phone can call a radio station  in Ghana now to question a government minister about the promises  he made election time.
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Yearender: Is 2006 another landmark for media development in Africa?    by Yi Gaochao   DAR ES SALAAM, Dec.
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Text of report by Samuel Siringi entitled "Media policy approved by the cabinet" published by Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation website on 12 September  The cabinet has endorsed a draft media policy whose proposals were the subject of a recent debate among practitioners.
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World's media experts meet in Kenya    NAIROBI, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Top media experts and practitioners worldwide are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday to discus how to enhance media freedom in the commonwealth.
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Seeking like-minded political thought, or folks to argue with? Look no further.
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âYOU have never beaten South Africa in this country. What makes you think you can change that this time?â The historical imperfection of the young African journalist quizzing Duncan Fletcher, the England
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'Blood Diamond' tries to mix African politics and action.
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As picture-taking mobile telephones and digital movie cameras grow ubiquitous, Internet users worldwide are being recruited as citizen news reporters.
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Go behind the headlines and examine the natural and human-caused factors fueling the deadly conflict in western Sudan.
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PBSâs new series successfully reveals some of the challenges faced by todayâs news organizations and the consequences of government skepticism toward the press.
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Siphiwe Sibeko, 35, is mostly a self taught photographer  who was born and grew up in Soweto township, South Africa.  After working for some leading South African newspapers as a  senior photographer, he joined Reuters in 2005.
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Presidential hopefuls starting to use blogs, social networking sites to advance their cause.
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Text of report by Estonian newspaper Postimees website on 5 September  [Commentary by Rein Veidemann: "Media Circus"]  Elections make for fatty raw material to the free media. The supply of news and opinions is far greater than the demand.
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A TV station in Ukraine points its Webcams at the protesting masses. A British artist retraces Shackleton's Antarctic voyage, sketching it on an unusual canvas -- a Palm Pilot.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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Could these events signal a new trend in journalism?
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A new radio station targeting both Israelis and Palestinians takes to the airwaves this week based on a format that pioneered debate between blacks and whites in apartheid-era South Africa.