African Media on the Road to 2010 (and beyond)

Twenty Ten is a multidisciplinary media project that focuses on strengthening African journalists from the disciplines of writing, radio reporting and photography, and distributing their articles, images, broadcasts and multimedia productions to media across Africa and the world.

A total of 108 professional journalists, from 34 different African countries, were selected by an independent professional commission. After an initial online refresher course, these ‘All Stars’ will all attend workshops and training in four African countries to coincide with qualifying matches for the African national teams still trying to compete in the World Cup in 2010. At the end of 2009, a select few of the All Stars will qualify to become part of the Dream Team that will travel to South Africa during the World Cup in 2010 to report on the event.

A selection of the best content produced by the Dream Team and the All Stars before and during the World Cup will be distributed globally by Africa Media Online, on both a subscription and a pay-per-use basis.

Revenues from sales will be split between the participating media professionals, and the project organizers.

About World Press Photo Foundation

World Press Photo Foundation, founded in 1955, is a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands. Its mission is to encourage high professional standards in photojournalism and to promote a free and unrestricted exchange of information.

World Press Photo aims to support professional press photography on a wide international scale. World Press Photo is known for organising the world’s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest. Prizewinning photographs are assembled into a traveling exhibition that is visited by over two million people in some 45 countries worldwide. A yearbook presenting all prizewinning entries is published annually in six languages.

Education and training are core objectives of the World Press Photo foundation. The foundation’s most high-profile educational activity is the annual Joop Swart Masterclass held in Amsterdam. Other activities take the form of once-off workshops, more substantial seminars, and photojournalism training programmes. Since 2004, World Press Photo has assisted training organizations in developing countries with a view to strengthening their capacity to provide photojournalism training.

World Press Photo receives support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery and is sponsored worldwide by Canon and TNT.

About Free Voice

Free Voice is a media organization based in the Netherlands that strives for press freedom, independent, multiform media, and balanced and reliable journalism in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The foundation was established in 1986 by prominent Dutch journalism and media organizations and supports initiatives with money, expertise and networks. For Free Voice, support to media is a goal in itself. Media are more than just communication and information channels. Professional and responsible media are the watchdogs against abuse of power, the voice of the people and bearers of culture. For these reasons they are essential for good governance and democratization of societies.

Within Africa, Free Voice focuses on pluralism and quality of the media and supports several media networks. The emphasis is on (community) radio and written press. Free Voice also initiated Kids News Network (KNN) worldwide with two partners in Africa (Zambia and South Africa). KNN is a television network that produces informative youth programmes.

Free Voice receives structural funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch Postcode Lottery.

About Africa Media Online

Africa Media Online is a South African company inspired by the vision of enabling Africans to tell Africa’s story. AMO is a digital trade route that enables African media professionals to present products not only to the African public, but to the public worldwide. AMO operates as an agency that actively markets digital journalism products through a network of distributors on behalf of the makers and owners of the material. It has created management and marketing systems to digitize media productions and offer digital content to a global public.

About Lokaalmondiaal

Lokaalmondiaal, based in The Netherlands, is a television and video production company set up in 1999. It began making television programmes on subjects such as international collaboration, globalization, poverty and sustainable development for local broadcasting stations in The Netherlands. It has since evolved into a professional media organization that publishes several magazines in Dutch and produces a range of (low-threshold) television programmes about international issues. Underexposed and forgotten stories are covered by the ‘Not in the News’ journalism project.

Lokaalmondiaal has considerable specific expertise on the role of sport in Africa. In 2008 it embarked on a large cross-media journalism project: the website www.roadto2010.com that will follow African teams and players to the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, and publishes news items on African football and players in general.

Lokaalmondiaal is financed by a wide range of sources, including Dutch development organizations and the Dutch government.

Sponsor

Twenty Ten is sponsored by the Dutch Postcode Lottery, the largest lottery in the Netherlands, which supports good causes such as UNICEF, the Red Cross and the WWF. In 2008 the lottery donated EUR 244 million to the 66 causes which are associated with the lottery. For more information on the Dutch Postcode Lottery, visit www.postcodeloterij.nl (Dutch only)

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