Stephanie Busari (SBB Media) - Why local journalism matters? | Media in Africa #3
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Notas del episodio
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.
Drawing on twenty-five years that ran from a London community paper to the Daily Mirror's showbiz column to the CNN bureau in Lagos, Stephanie maps the landscape: why a fixer will never contradict the correspondent who hired them, how Kenyans on Twitter ...