Stephanie Busari (SBB Media): Why local journalism matters? | Media in Africa #3
A proof-of-life video for the Chibok girls, handed to the one reporter still phoning their mothers two years after the news cycle moved on. Rwanda's logo on a Premier League shirt, and the outrage of people who had been told it was a poor country. And a flat verdict on the platforms that carry Africa's stories to the world: they were never built for us. In the third episode of Media in Africa, Georja Calvin-Smith talks with Stephanie Busari, founder of SBB Media and previously head of CNN's bureau in Lagos, about what actually changes when the people telling Africa's stories are from there.
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.