{"id":3724,"date":"2014-03-04T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T09:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2014-03-04T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T09:21:41","slug":"new-grants-to-support-african-business-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/new-grants-to-support-african-business-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"New grants to support African business reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ascfeatured-672x372.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3725\" alt=\"ascfeatured-672x372\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ascfeatured-672x372-300x166.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ascfeatured-672x372-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ascfeatured-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The African Media Initiative (AMI) has announced new funding opportunities for business and technology stories in its pan-African journalism competition.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from AMI revealed that the African Story Challenge is now inviting applications from individual journalists and newsrooms with unique story ideas or projects on business and technology that can only be produced with substantial support.<\/p>\n<p>The top twenty multimedia projects that show the best potential for adopting innovative storytelling techniques using data journalism tools, will be shortlisted for the final prize and will be awarded grants of up to $20,000 to produce them for broadcast and publication.<\/p>\n<p>Shortlisted stories will focus on any topical business and technology angle of interest to a wider African audience. The winning journalists and organisations will employ in-depth research and investigative journalism and engage in cross-platform approaches and interactive applications to ensure the story reaches as many people as possible on a variety of media devices.<\/p>\n<p>The African Story Challenge advisory council comprising senior journalists and editors will oversee the shortlisting process. The projects that will be identified to be eligible for funding will be approved upon signature of a legal contract. The finalists will be brought together for intensive sessions to improve their project ideas.<\/p>\n<p>An independent international panel of editors and media experts will judge the entries. Grantees who produce the best stories published or broadcast in media that reach African audiences will win cash prizes or a major reporting trip abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The African Story Challenge is a project of the African Media Initiative (AMI), the continent\u2019s largest association of media owners and operators. AMI Content Development Director and former Knight International Journalism Fellow Joseph Warungu is leading the project. The Knight Fellowships are administered by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This competition aims at encouraging and supporting African media to promote a better quality of life for our people by producing more and better stories on the issues that really matter\u201d said Warungu, a former BBC Africa Editor. \u201cPolitics is important, but it\u2019s not everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AMI Chief Executive Amadou Mahtar Ba added, \u201cIt\u2019s widely acknowledged that Africa is on the rise and leading the way on many fronts such as mobile money. To continue telling this story of growth and innovation well, the media in Africa must be supported and strengthened. AMI is committed to this goal through the Story Challenge and by finding disruptive digital ideas for improving the way that news is collected and disseminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The African Story Challenge runs on thematic cycles. The first one was on Agriculture and Food Security and the second one, which is coming to an end, has been on Health. The new cycle on Business and Technology was launched today with a panel discussion on business reporting in Africa organised jointly with the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).<\/p>\n<p>The panel featured NSE Chief Executive Peter Mwangi, IC Publications Group Publisher and chair of the competition judging panel, Omar Ben Yedder, Nation Media Group NTV Business Editor Wallace Kantai, Alex Gakuru, Regional Coordinator for Africa of Creative Commons, and Andrea Bohnstedt, publisher of Ratio Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The African Story Challenge is supported by an $800,000 grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. 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