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Registrations to the One World Media and POPLabMx Global Reporting Summit are now open!

https://oneworldmedia.org.uk/owm-global-reporting-summit-2024/

🎙️🏳️‍🌈 Call for pitches: Dating while LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈🎙

Dating is hard. Dating while LGBTQ+ is harder. In some ways, technology has made it easier to find each other. And it’s even responsible for some of the greatest love stories of our time. But it can also be messy, hard to navigate, and in some places, extremely dangerous.

Context has teamed up with Radio Workshop to produce a podcast episode for publication in February 2025 that gathers a range of stories about the LGBTQ+ community dating on apps in Africa, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Do you have an LGBTQ+ story about dating online? A Grindr swipe that changed someone’s life? Or a setup through a dating app trap?

We’re looking for 3-6 minute stories in English that tell a personal story about dating online while LGBTQ+ in Africa. The character needs to be between the ages of 18 and 35. You will conduct an interview with them, and we will help you think through the kind of story it should be. If you're looking to tell your own story, we'll walk you through turning a written essay into an audio story. We’re interested in pitches from anywhere across Africa, but are particularly interested in stories from Rwanda, Nigeria, Kenya, Namibia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.

Deadline for submissions: 18th October 2024

Please note: You will be paid for producing your story if selected. Follow the link to pitch!

Pitch Us – Radio Workshop From Freetown to Cape Town, we want to get to know the world’s youngest population, one story at a time. Whether you’re an experienced journalist or new to storytelling, we want your ideas for radio documentaries that will captivate our listeners and challenge perceptions of Africa.

This week, Sentebale is gathering local and global organizations and philanthropists committed to accelerating sustainable solutions for youth and community prosperity in Southern Africa. Young reporters Mary-Ann Nobele and Musa Khuzwayo, with Executive Director Vuyo Lutseke, have been invited to participate in the Sentebale fireside discussion ‘Potential is Waiting: The Johannesburg Edition’ on Thursday.

Sentebale was founded by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, and HRH Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006. It is a non-profit organization working to enhance health, wealth generation, and climate resilience for young people in Southern Africa.

We’re looking forward to engaging with the other organizations and panelists!

Jeunes Reporters Côte d'Ivoire is celebrating 10 years! 🎉📻

Over the past decade, Young Reporters in the Ivory Coast have produced more than 3,000 hours of radio on 14 radio stations, on subjects ranging from children's rights to climate change, mental health, and education. Over 1,017 children, teenagers, and young people have been trained in radio production techniques, public speaking, reporting and more!

From 40 children at the start of 2014, we now count 240 young reporters active each year on various community radios in their localities.

Fulgence Viera Koffi says over the next 10 years, "Our ambition is to extend the network of young reporters to other localities, reach out to other media (television and the written press) and the new media by setting up a web-radio where young people can express themselves on issues close to their hearts, thereby strengthening their right to participation."

Congratulations Jeunes Reporters Côte d'Ivoire, we look forward to the next 10 years of radio!

Radio Workshop is pleased to announce the launch of the Lotiliki Mag 2024 competition 🥳

This competition is aimed at Congolese journalists, community radio stations and emerging journalists. Its aim is to highlight, through radio programs, the problems linked to the lack of access to electricity, and possible energy solutions to improve the energy development of Congolese populations.

To participate, please fill out the form below before 30 September. Follow the prompts and send us your program before 20 October. Filling out the form below will give you access to the tools you'll need to produce your program (documents, reports, studies, etc.).

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

crf.surveycto.com

Sarah Queen, En tant que jeune reporter passionnée par la technique 📻🎧, j'utilise plus de 280 boutons sur la console pour amplifier et faire entendre la voix des enfants, adolescents et jeunes de ma communauté à travers la Radio San Pedro 90.00 Fm.

Jeunes Reporters Côte d'Ivoire
UNICEF Côte d'Ivoire
Radio Workshop
Mairie de san-pedro

visited one of our local sites: Alex FM to see, play and talk to the Youth Reporters. What am amazing time it was!

A huge Shoutout to them🔥🔥

Young reporters from Alex FM spent a day at the 'JOY FOR ONE HOPE' centre engaging with a group of other young people! This was one of many community engagement activities the young reporters planned for the remainder of the year.

The Youth at ALEX FM took to then studio to have the time of their lives discussing the impact and leadership of Nelson Mandela.

You can listen to their shows on Saturdays from 8:30

Meet the group of young reporters from the DRC! The group of 13 just completed a four-day training in Kinshasa 🇨🇩 They covered topics like climate change, access to electricity, indigenous rights and exploitation of fossil fuels.

Jeunes Reporters de la Rdc

On June 18th, thousands of young Kenyans swiftly mobilized against a proposed tax increase that would significantly raise daily living costs, particularly affecting the most vulnerable. Thousands of peaceful protestors in the streets of Nairobi were soon met with a violent response from police. Reports indicate 39 people were killed, with countless others wounded and unlawfully arrested. The dust is now settling. Friends lost in the fray are being found. Grieving for the dead is just beginning. We wanted to find out: what have young people in Kenya actually won?

Listen to our latest episode, "Kenya Rose" here!

Radio Workshop Forget the Africa you think you know. This is Radio Workshop. With real stories about young Africans. From Freetown to Cape Town, hear the world’s youngest population. One story at a time.

Join the Radio Workshop Alumni network!

We're starting this group for youth who were once part of the program to continue to work as community advocates, leaders and journalists, among other things. You qualify if you were a young reporter for more than a year.

We want to stay in contact with you and keep you updated on activities and opportunities that might interest you. Please take a few minutes to fill in the registration form by scanning the QR code or clicking the link below!

https://crf.surveycto.com/collect/radio_workshop_alumni

We are thrilled to announce that our podcast episode “This Coal Life” won at the
One World Media Awards last night! It was nominated in the Podcast & Radio category - that’s the same category our three-part series “I Will Not Grow Old Here” won last year too. We couldn’t be more honoured to call ourselves two-time One World Media Award winners.

Thank you to the judging panel for their recognition and for helping spotlight youth-reported and youth-centered stories from Africa.

And of course, congratulations to the Radio Workshop podcast team!

Winners 2024 Presenting One World Media's 2024 Awards Longlist

The 16th of June was Youth Day in South Africa! To celebrate, we want to introduce our 2024/2025 Youth Leadership Committee. This year the cohort consists of nine senior youth reporters from stations across South Africa 🇿🇦

Get to know the YLC and why each member joined at the link in our bio!

In South Africa, 16 June marks Youth Day. A day set aside to honour the young South Africans who fought in the 1976 Soweto Uprising, and to celebrate the youth in the country.

To mark the occasion, we want to introduce our 2024/2025 Youth Leadership Committee. Click the link below to meet the group!

Meet the Youth Leadership Committee! – Radio Workshop In South Africa, 16 June marks Youth Day. A day set aside to honour the young South Africans who fought in the 1976 Soweto Uprising, and to celebrate the youth in the country.

Just before the election in South Africa, a few young reporters from Alex FM, Moutse Community Radio Station, Aganang FM and Emalahleni FM were on the Big Debate South Africa to chat about voting and youth participation in elections 🗣️🗳️

They’re here!

Please welcome our 2024 Fellows – 11 amazing filmmakers, journalists and storytellers from across the global south who will spend a year developing their projects with us. Our fellows will be reporting from Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal, Malaysia, India, Rwanda, South Africa and Botswana, producing documentaries, podcasts and multimedia work on subjects as wide ranging as the creative arts to loss and grief and the impact on the climate in a swiftly growing country.

We're very excited to be working with this talented cohort!

https://oneworldmedia.org.uk/fellowship/2024-fellows/

Today, for International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, we’ve released the second episode in our two-part LGBTQ+ series in Uganda.

In "A Mother’s Letter" we meet Rihanna. A trans woman living in Uganda who was just 19 years old when she was arrested for being trans. That was in 2014. She spent 9 months in prison - an ordeal that tore a rift between her and her God-fearing mother. In the episode, we hear how her arrest radically changed the course of their lives - and how Rihanna’s mom unexpectedly became a staunch ally.

Listen to A Mother’s Letter below

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6o0istui7sgfNZWS8B1HpI?si=rCJemeCJQIyNq8mlDAB1jw

Tune in tonight where five young reporters from Emalahleni, Alex, Moutse and Aganang will be on the show!

🚨TOMORROW🚨 Are you voting for one of the top 3 parties? Share your questions for ANC, DA, or EFF leaders about their upcoming plans. Join us for the debate.
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