How Good Storytelling Makes Good Journalism: Introducing The Freytag’s Pyramid
How to adapt the Freytag’s Pyramid model of storytelling in your journalism.
NUHA blogging prize 2018
This year’s price offers up to $2,400 with awards for teachers and schools.
Magufuli and Social Media- Is Jamii Forums Africa’s WikiLeaks?
Academics need to take note of ordinary Tanzanians leveraging social media for change.
99 Problems, Ebola Ain’t One
This past Sunday, October 19th, Nipashe reported on a possible Ebola case in Mwanza‘s Sengerema district. The patient, Salome Richard,…
161 Years
It has been reported in local and international news agencies that Tanzanian Members of Parliament have legislated a $98,000 payout…
IRP journalism trip to India in Feb 2013
The funded trip will focus on examining child survival from February 17-27, 2013 and priority is being given to applicants from select countries, including Tanzania.
Results from Poll #9
2/3 voters felt news media in Tanzania is very subjective. What do you think?
Five questions with journalists
How do media houses control the kind of content we read, hear or watch after it has been created by the original authors? I asked five journalists working in the Tanzanian print industry about their experiences with the editorial process.
Be Silent. Not.
If people are not empowered to express their thoughts, aren’t they mere parrots, narrating someone else’s thoughts, talking but not really saying anything?
Drowning Fish: Media Downfall
The media has slipped to a point of convincing people of how unreliable they just might be.
Five Questions with Biche of ChickAboutTown
ChickAboutTown is a blog/online-entreprise that portrays the diversity of East African towns, people, and events through a cultural lens.
Social media platforms and revolutions
Author Malcolm Gladwell disagrees with the assessment of social media’s role in the Middle East uprisings.
Tanzania Media Fund Forum: Overview
To whom are journalists accountable? What ethical standards should they be abiding by?
Tanzania Media Fund stakeholders’ forum
Vijana FM is at the event and will bring you live-updates.
A historic moment in the Arab world
…at this powerful moment when people realized they could step out of their houses and ask for change.
Drowning Fish: Failures of the Tanzanian Media
It is already known that justice delayed is justice denied – is it fair to fair to say that the same is applied for news?
Five Questions with the BoP Project’s Jonathan Kalan
You’ve probably seen his photos documenting social entrepreneurship in Tanzania and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. Check out this interview for an in-depth focus on Jonathan Kalan’s work and thoughts.
Tanganyika katika picha
Ni busara kufahamu na kuona Tanganyika ilikuwaje.
So now Betelgeuse is to explode? Not so fast!
Kiranga muses about the apparent hysteria on news that the super-giant star Betelgeuse might ‘soon’ implode, a spectre known as supernovae.
A campaign for greater transparency: Tanzania government contracts
Should government contracts be open to the public eye? Kiranga, Vijana FM’s guest blogger, discusses this need.
WikiRebels: A WikiLeaks Documentary
Where is the secretive organization heading? Stronger than ever, or broken by the US? Who is Assange: champion of freedom, spy or rapist? What are his objectives? What are the consequences for the internet?
Is photojournalism dead?
How do we decide on the state of photojournalism in East Africa today? Is it a field with no future, or is the future of “the image” changing?
So what does independence really mean to you?
Kiranga shares his reflections on the 49th anniversary of Tanganyika’s independence. Wait. What independence?
Uchaguzi 2010: Vyombo na vyanzo vya habari
Nitawasilisha makala tatu kuhusu Uchaguzi Mkuu uliopita takribani majuma mawili yaliyopita. Nitajadili mambo ambayo yana budi kufumbiwa macho.
Ripoti kamili ya udaku
Uandishi wa habari za upekuzi.
Hivi tunakielewa Kiswahili
Labda tunahitaji mwongozo wa “Mzee Kifimbo Cheza.”
The curse of the black gold
Hope and betrayal in the Niger Delta.
Habari zilizofanyiwa utafiti
Niliwaahidi kuwaletea kazi za John-Allan Namu, mwandishi wa habari wa KTN, aliyetunukiwa tuzo ya Mwandishi Bora Afrika, 2009.
Watoto wa Taliban
Kuna propaganda nyingi kuhusu watu wanaojitoa muhanga na kujilipua, hasa kutoka kwenye vyombo vya habari vya nchi za Magharibi. Lakini umeshawahi kujiuliza: Hivi, wanajaribu kutafuta chanzo?
An interview with Ory Okolloh
Ory Okolloh runs kenyanpundit.com and is also the founder of ushahidi.com, as well as mzalendo.com.