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Written by CatharineFulton
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 “There are 153 years of experience in this room. We all know what we have to do to excel, and we are going to help each other do it,” media trainer Paula Fray told a group of 16 women media managers from Botswana, Namibia and Zambia, when opening a leadership workshop within Women in News (WIN), a WAN-IFRA initiative that launched its second year in early April in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Creating strong local media enterprises
Launched in 2010, WIN equips women from both the commercial and editorial side of newspapers with sustainable strategies, skills and support networks to contribute to the growth of strong local media enterprises. The programme partners with local and international experts to deliver high-impact and personalised leadership development opportunities to mid-level women media professionals, who are generally under-represented in topmanagement positions. Of the 14 participants enrolled in the first year of the programme, nearly 30 percent were promoted within their organisations and several others reported an increase in their capacity as both managers and leaders in their current roles.
Leah Komakoma Kabamba, a mid-level manager with The Post newspaper group in Zambia, and a WIN 2010 participant, says of her experiences in the programme: “The media landscape in Zambia is void of women in managerial positions. The few that are there are extremely frustrated, and being in the WIN programme helped me realise that the frustrations are not unique to Zambia, nor are they insurmountable.”
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Read More: "Women In News: Empowering Media Professionals"
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Written by Chandapiwa Baputaki
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 “Never take short cuts because they will take you longer than intended,” this are the words of former Oprah Magazine Editor, Thami Ngubeni.
In her late thirties, bubbly and easy going Ngubeni said this when giving a keynote address to participants of a groundbreaking leadership programme for African women working in the media held at Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg South Africa.
Ngubeni told the women that they are their own authors and none should dictate to them what they should do. “You influence others through the work that you do and what you should ask yourself is what influence you have on others,” Ngubeni said.
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Read More: “I am driven by the feeling that I am living a purposeful life"
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 Trevor Ncube is Chairman of Alpha Media Holdings in Zimbabwe and the Executive Deputy Chairman of the Mail & Guardian Media Group in South Africa. He has received numerous awards for his activities promoting press freedom and in his essay he argues how newspapers, despite changing technology, will continue to hold their status as intrinsic and universal nature as a watchdog.
Predicting the future calls for gazing into the proverbial crystal ball, but in my part of the world, it would be more appropriate to say it calls for throwing the divining bones. Also related to where I come from, the biggest challenge for publishers is to strive to build national and continental traditions in which authorities respect the right to publish. So, let me say that the first bone is literally a bone – it symbolises our intrinsic and universal nature as a watchdog.
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