RDA 2016 #radiowontfall Radio Days Africa

Liesbeth Tjon A Meevw who gives a presentation about what it means to be a journalist from and for the African diaspora. How diasporas always look for comparisons and commonalities, and how the world is becoming our home.

Working alongside Kagiso Media, Travis Bussiahn and his team developed two streaming projects aimed at traditional radio audiences. A year into these services, Travis shares learnings and successes in a very new media landscape in the South African context.

Eric Eisen (Marketing Manager: SoCast - Canada)
The ability to monetise non-traditional platforms is a key area to ensure financial sustainability in the media sector. Eric Eisen explains how to successfully develop strategies and techniques around selling digital platforms in an ever-evolving technological world.

Sound Africa is a new space for creative non-fiction from the African continent. The Sound Africa podcast series is a range of documentaries illuminating life through the power of radio. Whether it be the story of a small Northern Cape town hosting the Square Kilometer Array, or the story of Pierre and Yolanda Korkie, Sound Africa.org tells a truly African story.

George Wright (Head of Internet Research and Future Services: BBC – United Kingdom)
Heading up a team of innovative thinkers and tech trendsetters, George Wright talks about the process of innovation in the radio industry. George will share some thinking and examples of the work currently being carried out by the BBC.

Yafa Fredrick (Managing Editor: World Policy Journal)
The Panama Papers is an unprecedented investigation that reveals the off-shore links of some of the globe’s most prominent figures. A conglomerate of media partners has spent a year sifting through 11.5 million leaked files to expose the off-shore holdings of prominent figures. Yaffa Fredrick explores the leak’s biggest stories in a podcast series for Africa Investigates, an African Network for Centers of Investigative Reporting and World Policy Institute joint initiative.