Ten Congolese go mobile
‘Goma: Street saleswomen irritate market-based colleagues’. This is the title of a video report by Lucie Bindu, a young journalist in Goma in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Though a radio reporter, Ms Bindu madethis report entirely with a mobile phone.
Ms Bindu and nine of her colleagues have embarked on a six-month mobile reporting training by Voices of Africa Media Foundation (VOAMF) in partnership with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR). From June, the ten journalists will be filming, recording and editing their reports using their high-technology mobile phones. A three-day training in May by VOAMF trainers introduced them to that new form of community journalism, but also to the technical know-how that goes with it.
‘This training, in addition to the others I followed, will enable me to be a great journalist in the media landscape’, says Gaston Mungumwa, journalist at Alpha Omega Radio, and sole male in the group.
Their reports, like those of dozens of other trainees and alumni from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, will be published on VOAMF’s training platform, www.voicesofafrica.com and are accessible for every one.
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Pim de Wit
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14 June 2011, 11:32
