1. COMMUNITY MEDIA IN ZAMBIA
Background research done BY
Sr. Rose Nyondo
F. Muzyamba
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2. IMPACT OF NEW MEDIA ON JOURNALISM
NEW TOOLS OF JOURNALISM
CAN COMMUNITY MEDIA COPE ?
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3. THE NEW MEDIA It’s all on the NET and thrives on new technology
It’s Google, Your Tube :
Face book, Linked In, Tweeters, My Space, user generated content (UGC) like CNN’s I-Report or our won Cop, eye-witness, etc
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4. The New Media
It’s the blogs -- journalists are creating their own blogs and profiles and generating unique audiences to their sites
It’s the digital revolution
It takes about 15 to 20 minutes of lab time to teach a student to open and manage his/her own blog.
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5. NEW MEDIA
Changed information gathering, editing, packaging, dissemination and are re-shaping journalism in ways we’d never have imagined possible
We can write and edit from anywhere; we can outsource roles such as subbing. The sub editor does not need to be in the newsroom
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6. Informatiom overload, We have lots to choose from, real time news Present the most dramatic form of free flow of and access to information Helps to bypass the censors and anything goes of course at a hidden cost?
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7. DISTINCT FEATURES Heavily technology based
It’s all about the message, not the MEDIUM
Not restrictive -- anybody can use it
Multiple platforms all in one go
Allows widest reach ever
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8. IMPACT
Digital piracy -- copyright issues (Google, Yahoo, All Africa.com and other content aggregators
Has spawned a whole new phenomenon of citizen journalism
Crowd of consumers who, empowered by new technologies, have decided that traditional media are no longer relevant in today's society ??
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9. IMPACT
So everyone is now a journalist (mobile phone or digital camera – upload content and publish on any of the numerous available sites or on your own blog or send to a newsroom of your choice
EXAMPLE OF THE TSUNAMI PICTURES
News and info are available anywhere, anytime. A lot to choose from AND IT’S ALL FREE
New terminologies -- maximization of information -- and this can only be good for society
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10. IMPACT Death of professional journalism?
Accountability, ethics, standards are at risk.
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11. Impact
How to enforce ethics: how do you tell that growing crowd of non-journalists that you don’t control – ‘To check and double-check their stories before sending them to you’/ How to keep out hearsay, rumour, gossip or avoid being manipulated?
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12. Impact What about gate-keepers? Have they lost their employment?
More of quantity than quality
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13. IMPACT Digital onslaught -- new roles, medium neutral titles.
Newsroom integration and convergence – who breaks the news first? Online distribution becoming part of our job description. But the Community media in Zambia are far from being ready.
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14. Impact Notion of Day Two journalism -- background and context
More analyses, commentaries, in-depth reporting, investigative journalism, unique and specialist content. You can give more for those who want more. A patient of breast cancer will not mind more space to that story.
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15. IMPACT
Plagiarism much easier to do, but also to detect, forcing journalists to be more creative in the way they cheat.
Example of Students at Mass Comm.

16. Impact Research is child’s play. All you need to do is Google
Story narration is changing – using new tools, it’s no longer just words and spaces – we can add audio/video, get story subjects’ bios or information on them
Investment in training in the new media
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17. CHALLENGES Resistance to change -- traditional media rivalries persist
Higher compensation for publishing on multiple platforms
How to maintain professionalism as we know it (ethics, values, etc)
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18. Challenges Taking the newspaper in particular to the next level
Newsrooms -- fewer or more journalists
Has community media been prepared to meet these challenges ?
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19. Challenges Publication of a small community media
House has more audience than just its geographical reach.
A Community media paper or radio station in Zambia can reach Russia, South America, Australia etc
We need to be more professional than we are now!
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20. Challenges Research done with my colleague F. Muzyamba revealed that:
1. Comty Media houses need
training
2. They need the new Technologies and training on how to use them.
3. Urgent need to Resource management
4. Means of generating finances.
5. Knowledge of media laws and Ethics
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21. Challenges Employment patterns have to change
A CV. With IT experience will be more than an added advantage.
Creativity and new ideas to beat the stiff competition will be the most needed commodities
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22. Conclusion
Most Community Media houses in Zambia are not ready for the new Technologies.
Training needs to be our next and most urgent priority.
Facing the new challenges , the State needs to rethink its regulatory framework?
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23. THANK YOU
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
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