Roundtable: Connecting Continents: How can African Studies and Journalism benefit from each other?
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Just like previous editions, the BIGSAS Journalist Award 2024 honoured high-quality journalism in German-speaking media that deals with topics relating to the African continent beyond stereotypes. The submitted articles were reviewed by a jury consisting of BIGSAS alumni and researchers of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence. The journalists who submitted their articles do not necessarily have an academic background or special knowledge in an Africa related field of research, nor are researchers in African studies trained in journalism or methods of public outreach of their research results.
The roundtable on the morning after the BIGSAS Journalist Award ceremony featured the 2024 winners Birte Mensing and Ruona Meyer and aimed to encourage a discussion on how academia and journalism are entangled, can benefit from each other. What kinds of stereotypes need to be tackled? Where do we need more public engagement? Do we need to share more data?
The discussion was led by Dr. Bilian Otundo and Dr. Joschka Philips both members of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence.
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- Roundtable: Connecting Continents: How can African Studies and Journalism benefit from each other?
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- English
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- November 14, 2024
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- thank you uh good morning everyone we're happy to see you today we were with you yesterday and this is just a beautiful prolongation of what we experienced yesterday the wonderful celebration of our bigas journalist um Award winners for 2024 so just two or three words about uh the big journalist award it started in 2011 and with the initiative of um the broid international Graduate School of African studies which is now housed under the cluster of Excellence multiple um Africa multiple clust of Excellence we are happy to have you here today and the bigas journalist award actually encourages um beautiful wonderful uh author ship about the African continent without the cliche stereotype kind of reporting that we see especially on the media on television and we also listen to on radio and today with us uh we have our winners um you are already familiar with them we have BR mening our uh winner for this year's big journalist [Applause] award um so B has also been living in Kenya and is now back in by ro you did say and she's been working on issues um on the African continent and Beyond and also as a scholar we want to welcome you today to this beautiful and wonderful round table that we have and of course our second place um winner together with Betina Ru we have um our wonderful ruana Maya Who um um who is a Nigerian German also now venturing into scholarship and um um a journalist as our second place winner for this years journalist award welcome thank you yeah welcome also from my side I'm very happy to be here and uh with the two winners on stage and um together with billian um we will sort of guide you through this morning which is basically an opportunity for the various jury members uh to exchange with the journalists um it would be too much to introduce every jur jury member uh individually because you have uh very fascinating biographies so will just uh say the names of the many people that have read your work and look through them uh there is yaka Boro the… Read the full text about 16,625 words
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