Streamline Training & Documentation: Business Acumen XIII: Media Coverage of Africa

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Business Acumen XIII: Media Coverage of Africa

You can get an idea of the quality of information accessible through the international citizen media site Global Voices by having a look at this post by the US-based blogger Benin "Mwangi". He provides an annotated list of business media organizations focused on Africa. Just by clicking a few of the fifteen links in the post, you can see first-hand the depth of information available coincerning African business doings, opportunities, and challenges.

It's notable that Global Voices is cited in The State of the News Media 2007, published by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, as one of just four "high achievers" — defined as online news sites that excel in more than two of the five content areas the evaluators used in their assessment of quality:

user customization

user participation

use of multimedia

site depth

editorial branding

For anyone wanting an efficient way of surveying events around the world, Global Voices, sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School, is a must-monitor site.

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Labels: Africa, Business acumen

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