Or send me a message to request the accepted manuscript version.
I’m happy to chat about methods, limitations and anything else, as always.
#JournalismResearch #InvestigativeJournalism
#CrossborderJournalism
#Conferences
#GIJC
In conclusion, Speaker Lists, Speaker Durations and Session Types need to be routinely assessed because they indicate which 'bodies' attain in/visibility within journalism and delimit the priorities of this profession, long after conferences end.
Read the paper here:👇🏾
www.emerald.com/ijefm/articl...
Suggestions for conference organisers in general are:
✅ Agile speaker audits beyond male-female balance
✅ Collection of relevant data to enable such periodic audits
✅ Most importantly, transparent publication of full conference programmes in accessible and searchable formats.
…The Speaker Lists provide embodied maps of both field dominance and survival: the podium is where field politics meets field hierarchy to negotiate which bodies attain visibility, to surmount the ongoing precarity within the wider journalism profession.
Recommendations?👇🏾
🚨METHODS🚨
Using Bordieu's Field Theory, (journalism) conferences are examined as sites of consecration and arenas of power where capital and job security are contested.
Therefore…
❗️That's 1 black female Data speaker, out of 218 appearances.
Why does this matter?
Because in the latest #GIJC25 conference, the trend persists: again, only 1 Black woman, among 55 Data journalism Speakers. Also, from 2019-2025, there have been zero Data speakers of Pacific Islander ethnicity. 👇🏾
❗️White speakers consistently dominate the conference, particularly in career-boosting session types.
❗️This continued even with online editions
❗️Meanwhile, women and some ethnicities experience contradictory levels of in/visibility.
❗️E.g, only ONE Black woman spoke in the Data Journalism track….
Abstract of research study by Ruona Meyer titled Journalism Conferences as symbolic power: In/visibility trends across speaker lists of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (2019-2023).
🚨Publication Alert🚨💃🏻
My latest research article analysed Speaker Lists of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (aka #GIJC) from 2019 to 2023 by ethnicity, gender, speaker duration and session type.
There are three main findings!of this study (relevant also to #crossborderjournalism) 👇🏾
Special thanks to Dr. Claudia Gebauer, Aline, the afriZert team as well as the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art (StMWK) and the Bavarian Youth Exchange Foundation (SJB) who support this programme.
More on afriZert 👇🏾
afrizert.uni-bayreuth.de/de/index.html
We ended with pointers on how to diversify our news diets and exercises on developing a critical mindset to news.
It’s always an honour to get the chance to shape the African narrative and learn from our future leaders.
Spent today contributing to Module 1 of the AfriZert Program called “Encountering Africa Differently” at the Bayreuth International Graduate School for African Studies.
We looked at how Colonialism, Commerce and Curators shape the news produced by German media about Africa.
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.
mahaladecolonising.substack.com/p/provocatio...
…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.
#Collaborations
#MahalaDC
#DecolonisingCollaborations
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.
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.
✅ Subscribers ONLY, at 7am CET✅
#WorldIPDay #Collaborations #MahalaDC #DecolonisingCollaborations
#InvestigativeJournalism
How to #decolonise your #conference. Helpful hints - not only for journalistic meetings. via @rgameyer.bsky.social
Hello, folks!
Apologies: I changed phones, lost passwords etc so I haven’t had access on here. I promise to do better.
Thank you for the follows and interaction.
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 👇🏾
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.
3. 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.
2b. 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.
