A Turkana woman with her child at a food distribution camp in Kakuma in Turkana
As an appraisal of Kenya’s Free Primary Education Program, radio journalist Wycliffe Masinde seeks... Read more...
The Global Editors Network (GEN) is proud to announce the launch of the first annual Data Journalism Awards (DJA), the international competition recognizing outstanding work in the growing field of data journalism. The GEN initiative is supported by Google and is organized in collaboration with the European Journalism Centre.
An international jury of data journalism and media experts will select the six winning submissions. Jury members have been selected from prestigious international media companies including the New York Times, Reuters, and Les Echos and the president of the Jury is Paul Steiger, founder of ProPublica.
A new analysis of progress in the global fight against malaria finds a four-fold increase in annual funding for malaria research and development (R&D) in just 16 years—increasing from US$121 million in 1993 to US$612 million in 2009, with a particularly rapid increase since 2004. The funding has generated the strongest pipeline of malaria control and prevention products in history.
Five years after the launch of a global effort to protect the world’s most important food crop from variants of Ug99, a new and deadly form of wheat rust, scientists say they are close to producing super varieties of wheat that will resist the potent pathogen, while boosting yields by as much as 15 percent.
People across the world are changing what they eat because of the rising cost of food, according to a new global survey released today as part of Oxfam’s GROW campaign. 76 percent of respondents in Kenya said they have had to change their diet – the highest percentage recorded worldwide – with 79 percent blaming the rising price of food. 57 percent of Kenyans said they do not always have enough to eat.
New home owners and property developers targeting to put up low-cost accommodation are set to benefit from a new roofing technology which promises to be not just durable but also affordable.
The technology, called Ultra-Span, a light gauge steel truss system, has been introduced into the country through a partnership involving Kenya-based Mabati Rolling Mills (MRM), a regional manufacturer of aluminum-zinc coated sheets and coils in Africa and South Africas Safal Mitek, member of the global MiTek Holding Incorporated (which is also part of Warren Buffets Berkshire Hathway) in which MRM has a 50 per cent shareholding.
A short post this time, but I just wanted to share a video that I have found particularly useful with you. It’s from the BBC’s College of Journalism website,...
2012 is a big year for Britain, and particularly for London, as the city swings into gear for two enormous celebrations this summer. When exchanging notes with students from...
Surveys are useful tools to gather information, but when done wrong they can lead to terrible datasets. The video below was played to us at one of our lectures,...
As part of our course we put together an online blog that addresses the needs of a particular community. The one that I was involved in works on the...
One of the coursework pieces we have been set for our Journalism and Society module is about the moral panic surrounding sex trafficking. It struck me that the topic...
A new analysis of progress in the global fight against malaria finds a four-fold increase in annual funding for malaria research and development (R&D) in just 16 years—increasing from US$121 million in 1993 to US$612 million in 2009, with a particularly rapid increase since 2004. The funding has generated the strongest pipeline of malaria control and prevention products in history.
