Name: Making Newsrooms Sustainable - money, audiences and commerce (Half-day workshop)
Start: 2018-10-30T10:00:00+0200
End: 2018-10-30T13:00:00+0200

Over 60 sessions, more than 70 speakers in three days of training, learning new skills, sharing stories and networking with most of the continent’s most interesting journalists.
Note: It is essential you register online, and reserve your space in sessions which have limited space.

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Making Newsrooms Sustainable - money, audiences and commerce (Half-day workshop)

Whether you are a running a journalism start up, or whether you are working in an established team or network of investigative journalists, if you are looking for ideas and advice on how to pay the bills, this workshop is for you. The Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Journalism and Media Lab at Wits have brought together a team of advisors who will look at options for fundraising, for getting revenues from audiences and for advertising and sponsorships.

This will be a practical and interactive workshop so bring your ideas and experiences, questions and problems. You can also reserve one-on-one time with the experts afterwards.

Speakers

Stefaans Brümmer

Managing Partner, amaBhungane, South Africa

Stefaans is an old hand at investigations. He cut his reporting teeth at The Argus in Cape Town during the tumultuous early 1990s; then joined the uppity national weekly Mail & Guardian as South African democracy dawned in April 1994.The Mail was his launch pad for award-winning investigations... Read More →

Bridget Gallagher

Principal, Gallagher Group

As a career fundraiser for more than 20 years, and a solopreneur/entrepreneur building and running her own business for the last dozen of those, Bridget thinks a lot about sustainability, growth, and money. The skills that serve Bridget as a fundraiser have also helped her thrive... Read More →

Anne Koch

Program Director, Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN)

Anne Koch worked as a broadcast journalist and executive for more than 20 years, mostly for the BBC, before becoming a director at anti-corruption NGO Transparency International. Her award-winning career in BBC journalism included service as deputy director of the English World Service... Read More →

Indra de Lanerolle

Director, Jamlab, Wits University

Indra de Lanerolle is the director of the Journalism and Media Lab at Tshimolong Digital Innovation Precinct in Johannesburg, Africa's first journalism and media accelerator and innovation lab. He has published research on civil society use of technologies in accountability, on the... Read More →

John-Allan Namu

CEO & Investigative Journalist, Africa Uncensored

John-Allan Namu is an investigative journalist and the CEO of Africa Uncensored, an investigative and in-depth journalism production house in Nairobi, Kenya. Africa Uncensored’s ambition is to be the premier source of unique, important and incisive journalism. Prior to co-founding... Read More →

Mohamed Nanabhay

MDIF / Mozilla Ventures

In addition to sitting on MDIF’s Investment Committee, Mohamed is the Managing Partner of Mozilla Ventures, a first-of-its-kind impact venture fund that invests in early-stage startups pushing the internet — and the tech industry — in a better direction. He is a digital media... Read More →

Dapo Olorunyomi

Publisher, Premium Times

DAPO OLORUNYOMI is currently the Publisher of Premium Times, www.premiumtimesng.com, West Africa's leading investigative news platform based in Abuja, Nigeria.Prior to this, he served as policy director and chief of staff at Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption agency, the Economic... Read More →

Alec Saelens

Researcher, Membership Puzzle Project, UK

Alec Saelens is a Membership Puzzle Project researcher. Previously he co-founded and spent four years at the Bristol Cable, a UK based local media cooperative that has gained a reputation in the field for its impactful journalism, community engagement, and pioneering business model... Read More →

Tuesday October 30, 2018 10:00am - 1:00pm SAST
WSS207 Wits Science Stadium, First Floor

Media Sustainability

AIJC 2018