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| Launch of Two Publications on Ethical and Professional Issues in Journalism |
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WHEN: FRIDAY 13TH APRIL, 2007 TIME: 6.00 PM WHERE: NAIROBI INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL On Friday 13th April, 2007 African Woman and Child (AWC) Feature Service will launch two studies: For Better? Or For Worse? Impact of the Code of Conduct on Journalism Ethics in Kenya and Media Score Card Report: The Coverage of the Referendum Campaigns 2005, at the Nairobi Intercontinental Hotel at 6.00 pm. In 2005, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation supported two studies whose findings bring into focus some critical ethical and professional issues in journalism practice in Kenya. The first study titled For Better? Or For Worse? Impact of the Code of Conduct on Journalism Ethics in Kenya, examines whether or not journalists had access to the code of ethics as well as the possibility that they were using it to guide their professional work. Although most journalists agreed that knowledge levels on ethical principles had grown after the introduction of the code, the same could not be said about the application of the Code. The second of these studies, Media Score Card Report: The Coverage of the Referendum Campaigns 2005, evaluates the performance of the media during the National Referendum vote on the proposed draft constitution. The significance of the study is relevant given the extreme criticism directed at the media in the wake of the referendum vote for what was described as a lack of balance in their work. Always a hot ticket during an election year, the diversity issues such as ethnicity, minority rights and gender are at the heart of the concerns raised by the two studies. The studies are timely instruments for the media practitioners to engage with as they manage the various sensitivities which come with an election year. The study also reveals that there was little effort to enforce the code within newsrooms and that the management of media houses only begins to address ethics as an issue when they are faced with libel cases. The launch by African Woman and Child (AWC) Feature Service and Friedrich Ebert Foundation seeks to expand the dialogue to include a wider audience to reflect on and discuss the findings of the studies. |
| Kenya Audio Visual Archives Conference |
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The African Woman and Child Feature Service, the Kenya Archival Study Group and the Ford Foundation office in Nairobi, Kenya will hold the Preservation, Conservation and Restoration of Audio Visual Media Conference. The conference will be held at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, from December 3rd – 5th 2008. |
| AWC at the Highway Africa Awards |
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