Rwanda Media Programme

05/05/2025

How to engage the audience in the issue with climate change? That is a hard question where the answer is not clear. But a solution-driven journalism can be one way to solve the challenge. Rwanda Media Programme was supporting a training our partner Rwanda Environmental Journalists arranged on Solution Journalism recently. We hope we can share some stories that came out soon!

28/03/2025

There is so much to understand for journalists who report about IFF Illicit Finance Flows. The Rwanda Media Programme has, together with the Thomson Reuters Foundation arranged several trainings about this issue in Rwanda. Over 20 Rwandan journalists are now strengthened in this area, and we can not wait to see the results in stories being published in different media. Foto: Cina Crafoord

24/02/2025

Mwaramutse! Exciting news from Rwanda Media Programme today. We are searching for several experts to join our next phase in the media viabilty part of the programme this year. Are you an expert in community radio, AI-tools, subsricption models, digital transformation – or anything else connected to media and journalism? Please look at our four different calls in the commentary field. Last day to submit is the 3 of March, and applicants from outside Rwanda are welcome as well. Looking forward to your application!

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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