Mamaponya Motsai (fraycollege): Safety and ethics in media | Media in Africa #6
African journalism isn’t short on courage but it is short on support. In the sixth episode of The Media in Africa Podcast, Mamaponya Motsai—CEO of fraycollege, a journalism training institute in South Africa—tells host Georja Calvin-Smith that journalists’ safety is about more than physical danger. Online harassment, attacks on mental health, and the pressure to self-censor can all threaten the work journalists do. And women journalists are targeted especially hard. Protecting journalists is part of protecting journalism itself. And you can’t have safety without more resources. Low wages and a lack of funding for African journalism feeds directly into the kind of dangers faced by the people Mamaponya works with. What do African journalists need the most right now?
Media in Africa is a Meridian17 podcast on the people who make African media — press freedom, funding, shifting audiences and how the continent is covered abroad — hosted by Georja Calvin-Smith. Produced in partnership with the KAS Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa; editorial control rests with Meridian17.