Configuring convergence : southern African websites looking at American experience
- Authors: Berger, Guy
- Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:535 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008553 , ISBN 0-86810-379-9
- Description: I want the Web to win. Africa’s news sites on the Internet need to succeed and survive. They’re a small guarantee against global marginalisation, and a critical intersection across our continent’s domestic divides. But the outlook is not good. At a conference I went to in Berkeley in April 2001, a venture capitalist had this to say: "If I were to make a speech on when there’ll be investment in new media again, it would be a rather short topic." The alarming closures and retrenchments at news websites in the USA are sending scary signals to our fledgling efforts back here. Starting and growing media enterprises of any sort in African conditions has never been easy. Long starved of investment, our cyberpublishing now faces even greater pressures as old media – newspapers, radio and TV – try to make ends meet under mounting threats. Advertising is shrinking, local costs are rising and currency falls are fuelling the price of imported production factors. Consumers have less cash to spend. Governments are giving even greater problems in some cases. Will we still be here in the morning, and in what condition? This booklet suggests the way forward is for new media to converge with selected partners, old media and new.
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- Authors: Berger, Guy
- Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:535 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008553 , ISBN 0-86810-379-9
- Description: I want the Web to win. Africa’s news sites on the Internet need to succeed and survive. They’re a small guarantee against global marginalisation, and a critical intersection across our continent’s domestic divides. But the outlook is not good. At a conference I went to in Berkeley in April 2001, a venture capitalist had this to say: "If I were to make a speech on when there’ll be investment in new media again, it would be a rather short topic." The alarming closures and retrenchments at news websites in the USA are sending scary signals to our fledgling efforts back here. Starting and growing media enterprises of any sort in African conditions has never been easy. Long starved of investment, our cyberpublishing now faces even greater pressures as old media – newspapers, radio and TV – try to make ends meet under mounting threats. Advertising is shrinking, local costs are rising and currency falls are fuelling the price of imported production factors. Consumers have less cash to spend. Governments are giving even greater problems in some cases. Will we still be here in the morning, and in what condition? This booklet suggests the way forward is for new media to converge with selected partners, old media and new.
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It's the training that did it: a primer for media trainers to assess their impact
- Authors: Berger, Guy
- Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:536 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008555
- Description: To improve journalism, media trainers need information about what’s working and what needs work in the courses they deliver. This means assessing the impact of this training – as it affects attitudes, information, skills and results in the workplace. To isolate the role that training plays, research and evaluation have to take place long before a course begins and continue till long after. This booklet explains the complexities involved, and it provides the tools for trainers to devise usable strategies to assess the impact of their work. The author critically draws from extensive management training literature, and produces a revised theory that he applies to the unique enterprise of journalism training and its assessment.
- Full Text:
- Authors: Berger, Guy
- Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:536 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008555
- Description: To improve journalism, media trainers need information about what’s working and what needs work in the courses they deliver. This means assessing the impact of this training – as it affects attitudes, information, skills and results in the workplace. To isolate the role that training plays, research and evaluation have to take place long before a course begins and continue till long after. This booklet explains the complexities involved, and it provides the tools for trainers to devise usable strategies to assess the impact of their work. The author critically draws from extensive management training literature, and produces a revised theory that he applies to the unique enterprise of journalism training and its assessment.
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The trouble with ‘race’: how it constricts our view of the world
- Authors: Berger, Guy
- Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159067 , vital:40264 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC144703
- Description: Racism must go, few would dispute that. Better still: journalists should consign not just racism, but also the concept of 'race', to the proverbial spike, writes Guy Berger.
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- Authors: Berger, Guy
- Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159067 , vital:40264 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC144703
- Description: Racism must go, few would dispute that. Better still: journalists should consign not just racism, but also the concept of 'race', to the proverbial spike, writes Guy Berger.
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