Eight social media dilemmas Kenyan journalists and bloggers might face next week – and how to handle them
1) You receive information off-line of important but potentially inflammatory news A prominent blogger received a text message during the last elections saying that certain candidates had been arrested. You might be tempted to share…
What can journalists and bloggers learn from Kenya’s primary debacle?
The most sensational failures of the primaries are well known. According to this Capital FM article, Ruth Odinga was falsely declared the ODM nominee for the Kisumu governorship by someone who was not authorized to…
The essential social media for Kenyan journalists
UPDATE: I’ve revised the list of good Kenyan tweet accounts below and turned them into “lists” that you can subscribe to here: https://twitter.com/NN_Lab/lists The Networked News Lab is getting started in 2013 by looking at…
The Networked News Lab begins its experiment
Six top Kenyan journalists gather next month as the founding members of the Networked News Lab, an experiment that will test the possibilities offered by new communication technologies for news makers. Over the next six…