Rwanda Media Programme

21/12/2024

Rwanda Media Programme’s local team closed 2024 with a two days training about the basics in AI together with lecturers at the journalism schools in 🇷🇼. So much fun, so interesting and useful 😀. Let us see where those new skills will take us next year. Merry Christmas 🎄🎄

Rubavu (ICK News) – A transformative training session aimed at equipping Rwanda’s journalism lecturers with cutting-edge skills in artificial intelligence (AI) applications for journalism took place from December 19th to December 20th, 2024, at Stipp Hotel in Rubavu. The training, part of the Rw...

28/11/2024

Christmas comes early to Kigali this year :-). Rwanda Media Programme is in the process to provide equipment for mobile-journalism as a phone, microphone set and a tripod to 20 of the media houses has as partners. Good luck with your new equipment – and we can not wait until we see the stories produced with it.

21/11/2024

Can you explain the terms AMLID, FAFT, FIU, AML and APG? This and so much more can the journalist Annonciata Byukusenge from The Forefront Magazine do after a week of training in investigative reporting and Illicit Financial Flows, IFF. The training is managed by Rwanda Media Programme in cooperation with Thomson Reuters Foundation. Look out for a range of impressive stories coming out in Rwanda.

11/11/2024

We are happy to tell that journalism students from ICK, UR/SJC, MKU and EAUR this week are gathered for a three-day training organized by the Rwanda Media Programme. They will be covering topics as news writing, reporting on social media, multimedia storytelling and interviewing techniques – all about building practical skills for a dynamic media career :-). Pictured is one of the trainers, Jean Claude Ndayishimye, senior manager at RBA Digital.

21/10/2024

Rwanda Media Programme invites Rwandan journalists with interest in investigations to apply to this exciting training. Please follow the link and submit no later than 10 of November!

Fojo Media Institute, in collaboration with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, is excited to announce a series of investigative journalism trainings on exposing

21/10/2024

We are so happy to see different media houses in Rwanda taking the next step with the Rwanda Media Anti Sexual Harassment Policy that Rwanda Media Programme drafted out together with the local media sector last year. One of them, Isango Star 91.5 FM Official, launched their policy in this important work for a sustainable media sector in an event last week. Isango's Laetitia Mugabo, pictured, was one of the speakers during the event.

02/10/2024

Here we go! Rwanda Media Programme recently kicked off a 6 months mentor programme for four student magazines! To the right is one of the mentors, the journalist Tabaro Jean de la Croix, meeting the students at Institut Catholique de Kabgayi ICK. If you haven´t read their magazine - plz go to the link in the commentary field.

26/09/2024

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17/09/2024

Fojo’s Rwanda Media Programme (RMP) launched the second National Media Consumption Survey in Rwanda in front of the broader media sector in Rwanda.