We find the political capture of the broadcast media space, in particular, and the increasing concentration of the media in a few hands as worrying f… - Audrey Gadzekpo

It was discovered that in most of the media houses, there was no clear-cut promotion mechanisms.

The opportunity to do good research certainly. However, additionally, the networking and the other processes, such as training workshops, around the grant meant that I had the opportunity to engage multiple times with other grantees and to be mentored in that sense to sort of reshape my ideas. I also had the opportunity to organize a regional training workshop for practicing journalists in the West African sub-region on reporting about peacebuilding, with a couple of APN grantees as resource persons. One of them, Dr. Peace Medie, just last week sent me a published article based on an aspect of the lecture she gave for that workshop. So it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle of sharing ideas and research and publication opportunities.

Political faces behind broadcast media ownership mean that partisan actors and governments can control public discourse, and this is not good for our democracy.