@rgameyer.bsky.social
Independent Media Trainer and DEI Consultant. Journalist with 21 years’ experience across West Africa and Europe. Final-year PhD Candidate researching Power Dynamics in Cross-border Collaborative Investigative Journalism
ICYMI: We love a good Provocation. However, the first offering from Journalism Studies' Provocations section reflected the Global North dominance within global journalism research. We write in the hope that this trend will not continue.
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…unless newsrooms and journalists create real audiences who support their journalism, the predominant journalism funding model will only continue to create new ways of begging...and reach louder decibels of whining. Out tomorrow, 7AM CET.
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Their screaming is caused by grief, not from the loss of hundreds of lives of journalists in Gaza, but grief over the loss of money.
Our reflective post this week concludes that…
A stick cartoon drawing showing Expectation versus Reality. The expectation shows a journalist saying journalism is in crisis worldwide and we all must talk…yet the reality is during talks, excerpts such as “Don’t say Trump” and Launder Money legally for donors are the focus. Cartoon by Mahala Decolonising Dot Substack Dot Com
DOES JOURNALISM HAVE A SUSTAINABLE FUNDING—or BEGGING—MODEL?
The howling by mostly global minority intermediaries managing funds for global majority journalists is growing louder by the month.
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A machine-readable graphic showing three types of rights to help journalists protect their intellectual property during collaborations. The rights are: Right to Publicity, Sales Rights and Terms of Copyright. This graphic was made by journalist Ruona Meyer.
Tomorrow's newsletter from Mahala - Decolonising Collaborations has tips on how to safeguard your intellectual property during journalism collaborations.
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How to #decolonise your #conference. Helpful hints - not only for journalistic meetings. via @rgameyer.bsky.social
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New Post: How to Decolonise Conferences
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Hello, folks!
Apologies: I changed phones, lost passwords etc so I haven’t had access on here. I promise to do better.
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A list of upcoming posts for the newsletter Mahala, Decolonising Collaborations. Coming up over the next few weeks are: a welcome post on what Mahala hopes to contribute, a post on how policy reports can make collaborative journalism more inclusive, another post with a free language Impact map for collaboration coordinators, and a detailed answer on how to identify risks between journalists working on the same story. You can subscribe to the newsletter by using
Here’s what’s coming up on Mahala-DC, and how to subscribe 👇🏾
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A red, yellow and black poster for a new newsletter called Mahala, which focuses on topics around social, technological, financial and academic colonisation of collaborative journalism; Mahala launches 6th of February, 2025
Launching in SIX DAYS.
A blunt solutions-based, narrative-diversifying, template-providing newsletter.
Your questions answered, your successes (and challenges) showcased. 😉
Your ten-minute playlist*—if you’d like to dance/head-bop into the first working day of 2025! You made it!❤️
- Notice by Nissi
- Jeje by Falz
- Ahomka Wo Mu by V.I.P
In that particularly order, yes.
*Yes, in another life I was a DJ.😎💃🏽👯♀️
Albanian Government:
🗣️ “TikTok is the thug of the neighbourhood. We have to shut it down for a year.”
Me:
“Uhm…have y’all met X?” 😩
Picture of a brown handbag and speckled coat on a train. The author of this post hopes you’re having a great day. If not, there’s still some hours to go; things can change. ❤️
Moin, Luxembourg! Enroute to Brussels for a “High-level conference: Coding Equality into the AI Act – Equality Bodies rising up to the Challenge”.
It is organised by Equinet, the European Network of Equality Bodies.
Side-note: The event is invite-so feel free to DM; we could meet on the sidelines.
It’s time to WORK on the profession we all love and benefit from.
All the best, colleagues.
It’s been a dreadful week. We bystanders especially need to process the mess we are seeing.
4. It’s time to move to INSTITUTIONAL change and debate, not the continuous “my silo and network is bigger than yours” energy we are seeing.
07.12.2024 02:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 03. It’s time to talk about what media funding for investigative journalism is, what it should be, and how it should be communicated, even how frequently it should be communicated, and to whom.
07.12.2024 02:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 02b. Your colleagues in countries with less funding in the profession are wondering if they are safe, if you can do this to each other. Speak with them, reach out and communicate, clarify or apologise.
Lest you finish your turf wars and realise that you have lost the entire battle.
2. It’s time to mend the broken trust between colleagues (especially foreign colleagues) who are watching Europeans, Americans and their supporters tear each other apart shamefully and quite frankly, disgustingly.
07.12.2024 02:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 01. It’s time to move to discussions on rebalancing relations between members in investigative networks.
E.g how does one party get the right to tell their peers when/what/how to respond to journalist enquiries?
Screenshot of potential gatekeeping 😊
Screenshot of silo-enhancing audacity
#OCCRP
Pic 1 shows a colleague-based threat.
Pic2 is what being in, or controlling powerful silos also makes people tweet. Call it SEA: silo-enhancing audacity.🙂
Whether you know “these guys” or not, or agree with them or not?
It is absurd to focus on that, rather than issues arising.
Screenshot of the abstract of an academic paper published in Journalism Journal. Written by Nigerian-German journalist Ruona Meyer, the paper is titled The threat within; power dynamics impeding cross-border journalism practice: perspectives from African investigators
[PUBLICATION ALERT]
The Threat Within: Power Dynamics Impeding Cross-Border Journalism Practice--Perspectives from African Investigators.
‼️The accepted manuscript version is on my LinkedIn. The final version with accurate page numbers and supplemental tables: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…
A very alarming example of colleague-based threats (censorship) to investigative journalism, linked to the OCCRP. I am very disturbed by this.
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Poster for an upcoming session called Navigating Colleague-Based Threats to Safety in Collaborative Journalism by Nigerian-German researcher Ruona Meyer. The poster also shows a stick drawing of two robots fighting
I'm turning practice-based reflections from a forthcoming paper into a series of workshops. One of the first sessions will be in exactly A WEEK! And so I look forward to the feedback on ways to improve.
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Today's edition of our daily roundup on journalism features Australia's ban on social media for under-16s, ChatGPT inaccuracies, Bluesky's struggles with verification
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Psychische #Gesundheit von #Journalist*innen. Das scheint mir ein vernachlässigtes Thema. Nicht nur im Blick auf - oft prekäre - Arbeitsbedingungen. Auch angesichts der Belastungen durch die Informationen, die sie verarbeiten müssen. Danke für den Hinweis, @rgameyer.bsky.social
28.09.2024 11:42 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0In #Nigeria, elephants are a bellwether for geopolitics.
Tolu Ogunlesi’s latest piece is an education. Read it please.
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Thank you, very much. Dankeschön
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