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Media Fellowship

Overview

While the Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa (BMIA) financial journalism training program targets working journalists, the Initiative also offered technical assistance and training for media editors, to help them become more knowledgeable about the content of business and financial journalism, and contribute to their leadership development. BMIA partnered with the Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI) to create and achieve these goals.

Forty-five distinguished media professionals from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa were chosen by a panel of prominent pan-African media executives in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. The two-year Media Fellowship program combined ALI’s proven approach to leadership development, created in partnership with the Aspen Institute, with elements of the BMIA financial journalism training curriculum, delivered across four four-day seminars in Africa New York. Seminars were moderated by a group of distinguished facilitators and speakers, drawn from the ranks of media management, business and finance. The Fellows planned and executed a public interest project drawing upon their regional knowledge, professional skills and experience and their learnings from the fellowship.

Having completed the program, Fellows became part of a community of BMIA/ALI Fellowship Alumni and have engaged formally and informally with their peers and other media professionals.

A series of webinars and public health information and resources were provided to the Fellow to enhance their understanding and coverage of COVID-19, and to continue their professional development.

The BMIA Media Fellowship is generously supported by Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

45 Fellows

42% Female

58% Male

Highlights:

  • Media Fellowship Program Class 1 Launch, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Forty-five distinguished media professionals from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa chosen as Fellows.
  • First class of Media Fellowship launch and convenes in Cape Town, South Africa for first seminar. 
  • Class 1 second and third seminars for Media Fellows held in Naivasha, Kenya, and Kigali, Rwanda.
  • Second class of Media Fellowship Program Class 2 launch in Cape Town, South Africa for first seminar
  • Class 2 second and third seminars for Media Fellows held in Naivasha, Kenya
  • Media Fellowship Class 1 Seminar 4, Class 2 Seminar 3 and Class 1 Graduation held in New York, USA
  • Media Fellowship Program Class 2 Seminar 4 and Graduation Cape Town, South Africa
Erana Stennett in conversation with Media Fellow Charles Ike-Okoh at the fellowship launch in Johannesburg, South Africa (2015).
Media Fellows receive Terminal Training at Bloomberg Headquarters in New York, USA (2016).
Media Fellows with Michael R. Bloomberg and Patti Harris at the US Africa Business Forum in New York, USA (2016).
Media Fellows during a community visit during Seminar 3 in Kigali, Rwana (2016).
Media Fellows attend Seminar 4 at Bloomberg Headquarters in New York, US (2016).
Media Fellow Mapi Mahlangu, at ABMI 2018 in Livingstone, Zambia (2018).

Reto Gregori speaking to Media Fellows at Bloomberg Headquarters in New York, US (2016).

Media Fellows Andile Ntingi and Terryane Chebet in conversation with Ory Okolloh at Seminar 2 in Naivasha, Kenya (2015).
Media Fellow Udwak Amimo in conversation with Isaach Shongwe, Chairman Letsema and Kabiru Yusef, Fellowship Advisory Steering Committee in Cape Town, South Africa (2017).
Matt Winkler with Media Fellows at Bloomberg Headquarters in New York, US (2016).
Media Fellows Pheladi Gwangwa and Ufrieda Ho at a visit to a community project during Seminar 3 in Kigali, Rwanda (2016).
Media Fellows at Seminar 1 in Cape Town, South Africa (2015).
Media Fellows Charles Ike-Okoh and Olawunmi Ojo during a visit to a community project in Naivsaha, Kenya (2015).
Justin Smith speaking to Media Fellows at Bloomberg Headquarters in New York, US (2016).

Partners

The Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI) was conceived as a pan-African initiative rooted in the belief that Africa’s future lies in the investment and development of effective, values-based and enlightened African leaders. ALI was launched in 2001 as a collaborative effort of four partner organizations in Africa and the United States. ALI has programs in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda), West Africa (Ghana and Nigeria) and South Africa. All these programs have been delivered in partnership with the Aspen Institute in Colorado.

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