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Liberia Media Center - LMC The Liberia Media Center is Liberia's foremost media development organization which is specialized

20/11/2024

The Liberia Media Center with support from DFID through MFGAP build the capacity and empowered Liberian Media Workers to actively engage in covering and reporting stories from the Liberian Forest […]

12/11/2024

2024 Forest Media Award Entries Announcement!
The Liberia Media Center with support from the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) through the Multi-stakeholders Forest Governance and Accountability Project announces the opening of News stories, Features, and Articles entries for the 2024 Annual Forest Media Awards for Liberian Journalists.
The MFGA Project under output three (3) between 2020 and 2022 built the capacities of Liberian Journalists on Forest Reporting as a means of equipping them with the needed knowledge to investigate and report forest-related stories unique to principles of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) to amplify the concerns and progresses of concessionaires, National Forest Regulatory Agencies, Rural Dwellers and Forest Communities across the country to promote transparency, accountability, and development in the sector and country.
Three very attractive prizes, namely first, second, and third places are up for grabs for stories from the Print and Electronic Media.
Additional requirements:
• The News Story/Feature/Talk show or Article must be about the Liberian Forest
• The story/feature or article must be an investigative piece that may lead to some interventions from stakeholders in the sector. Mentioning possible impact after the broadcasting or publication could be a plus;
• The story must be broadcast or published between January and November 30, 2024, on any platform;
• The reporter must be a Liberian journalist/freelance reporter and not necessarily a member of the MFGAP/LMC Reporters Network;
• For radio, an audio recording of the news bulleting on which the story was carried should accompany the application, while for the print, hard copy, or snap copy of the newspaper with the date visible should accompany the application and the link to the online source should be provided for the online-based media outlets;
• Complete the application with supporting documents and attachments and submit it to [email protected]. WhatsApp #: +231886599136
Your Entry should contain the following:
Full Name:
Institution:
Contact #:
Story Title:
Story Summary:
Story Impact:
Date of Publication/Broadcast:
Your Bio (Summary) 500 Characters:
Attach Story Audio/Snap or link:

All entries are to be submitted on or before November 30, 2024, at 5:00. For inquiries please call: 231886599136/0776599136

Please also note that the LMC has been monitoring Forest Stories since July of this year and some of these stories are in our archive for possible evaluation for this award. Outlets and individual reporters are going to be contacted when the need arises.
Signed: ____________________________
Francis S. Brewer
Liberia Media Center

Please take advantage of this Media Reporters in Liberia
12/11/2024

Please take advantage of this Media Reporters in Liberia

2024 Forest Media Award Entries Announcement!
The Liberia Media Center with support from the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) through the Multi-stakeholders Forest Governance and Accountability Project announces the opening of News stories, Features, and Articles entries for the 2024 Annual Forest Media Awards for Liberian Journalists.
The MFGA Project under output three (3) between 2020 and 2022 built the capacities of Liberian Journalists on Forest Reporting as a means of equipping them with the needed knowledge to investigate and report forest-related stories unique to principles of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) to amplify the concerns and progresses of concessionaires, National Forest Regulatory Agencies, Rural Dwellers and Forest Communities across the country to promote transparency, accountability, and development in the sector and country.
Three very attractive prizes, namely first, second, and third places are up for grabs for stories from the Print and Electronic Media.
Additional requirements:
• The News Story/Feature/Talk show or Article must be about the Liberian Forest
• The story/feature or article must be an investigative piece that may lead to some interventions from stakeholders in the sector. Mentioning possible impact after the broadcasting or publication could be a plus;
• The story must be broadcast or published between January and November 30, 2024, on any platform;
• The reporter must be a Liberian journalist/freelance reporter and not necessarily a member of the MFGAP/LMC Reporters Network;
• For radio, an audio recording of the news bulleting on which the story was carried should accompany the application, while for the print, hard copy, or snap copy of the newspaper with the date visible should accompany the application and the link to the online source should be provided for the online-based media outlets;
• Complete the application with supporting documents and attachments and submit it to [email protected]. WhatsApp #: +231886599136
Your Entry should contain the following:
Full Name:
Institution:
Contact #:
Story Title:
Story Summary:
Story Impact:
Date of Publication/Broadcast:
Your Bio (Summary) 500 Characters:
Attach Story Audio/Snap or link:

All entries are to be submitted on or before November 30, 2024, at 5:00. For inquiries please call: 231886599136/0776599136

Please also note that the LMC has been monitoring Forest Stories since July of this year and some of these stories are in our archive for possible evaluation for this award. Outlets and individual reporters are going to be contacted when the need arises.
Signed: ____________________________
Francis S. Brewer
Liberia Media Center

Keeping the Peace  Is everyone’s ResponsibilityAS LIBERIANS GO to the poll tomorrow to elect their President, one thing ...
13/11/2023

Keeping the Peace Is everyone’s Responsibility

AS LIBERIANS GO to the poll tomorrow to elect their President, one thing that must be cardinally upheld by all political parties and their supporters is keep the peace in the country. This is an important factor towards development, progress and improvement of the country by whosoever party that may emerge winner of the November 14 polling, and is equally a recipe for sustaining our fledgling democracy.

WE ARE SAYING this because the 2023 process is punctuated with developments that posed threats to our peaceful coexistence as a people and a nation; developments which, if not managed could have the country inflamed, even before the runoff as election that brought the Opposition Unity Party and its supporters and the incumbent Coalition for Democratic Change and its followers head on collision in this second round of the polling to determine who is to be the President.

THE OMEN OF confusion that has the potential to take this country back to its gloomy days ranges from militarizing the democratic process, vestiges that borders on voter trucking, intolerance of each other’s views amongst members and supporters of respective individual parties, mudslinging and suspicions of vote rigging, including ballot stuffing amongst others. All of these are undoubtedly fueled by the factionalization of the media that have embraced hit messages by partisan media institutions.

TO SCAN THROUGH some of the referential events that have attended the process, I am inclined to mention the electoral violence between the CDC and the UP that reportedly left a CDCian dead in Foyah, Lofa County, the clash between All-Liberia Coalition Party (ALCOP) and the CDC on the Japanese Freeway in Gardnersville, reports of ballot tampering during the first round counting of ballots are amongst the incidents that threatened the country’s fragile peace and tranquility and must be avoided.

JUST AS WE anticipate the runoff to be peaceful, reports emanating from Nimba County say one Quiwonkpah and others had fired rounds of lethal weapons in a campaign convoying of the Unity Party in which two Nimba County Senators, Jeremiah Koung (now Vice Standard-bearer of the UP) and Prince Y. Johnson, all of the Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MRD) leaving several of their supporters wounded.

BESIDES, LIBERIAN has a history where media outlets, especially the radio and online television stations have the tendency to pre-announce election results in the favor of their political masters, which also must be avoided this time around.

GIVEN THESE INSTANCES, we condemned in the strongest possible terms all attempts at creating turmoil, anxiety and violence within the nation during these election and joined the Chairman of the Joint Security of Liberia, Attorney General Frank Musa Dean in forewarning would be trouble makers, especially those of two contenders and their followers each against declaring themselves winners in the absence of the official declaration of the election result by the National Election Commission (NEC) which is the statutory agency responsibility for the announcement of the results.

DURING THE A press conference, the Justice Minister succinctly said the two parties – meaning the CDC and the UP - should refrain from celebrating until the final official results are declared and announced during these crucial and challenging times in our history, and urged Liberians from using the social media to issue threats.

SAYING THE CONTENDING parties need to resolve election grievances peacefully, the Justice Minister said while the Joint Security will always exercise restraint in handling electoral matters, the security will not withstanding deal with all unlawful aggressions with reasonable and proportionate force on ground that and such unlawful acts run contrary to concerted efforts by Liberians at building a better country, while also undermining the hard- earned peace and security being enjoyed, pose a direct challenge to democracy and national unity.

ACCORDING TO JUSTICE Minister Frank Musa Dean, while the Joint Security will always exercise restraint, it will, notwithstanding, meet with reasonable and proportionate force all unlawful aggressions that tend to derail the peace of the country. Minister Dean at the same times added that any such disruption of the peace by any individual or group of individuals does not only undermine the hard- earned peace and tranquility being enjoyed and run contrary to the concerted efforts of Liberians for a better country, it also, pose a direct challenge to democracy in the country and national cohesion and unity.

THE JOINT SECURITY fervently cautions against all acts that have the propensity to fan violence, and set into motion actions that threaten Liberia's peace, including the airing of political prejudices that could lead to violent reactions. We agree with the Minister considering the fact that the fratricidal civil debacle of the 1990s and early 2000s originated from electoral maleficence by state actors who were participants of the election of 1885.

DRAWING FROM THE lessons of those elections and the more than 250,000 people that were killed with millions of property damage as the result of the pattern of behavior during 1985 elections, Liberians needs to be very meticulous on how we go about this runoff election, as electorates proceed to the polls on Tuesday, November 14, 2023. We therefore urge the government, the opposition bloc and all well-meaning Liberians as well as our civil society and international partners to guide the Tuesday, November 14 presidential election so that the true winner of the election will be given the crown to avoid the country sliding back to its bitter past.

IN CONCLUSION, LET us all have our hand on deck to keep the peace at the end of the election instead of destroying our country for self-aggrandizement, for keeping the peace is a business for us all.

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