<![CDATA[Media in Africa]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/media-in-africa Africa's media landscape is changing faster than the reporting about it suggests. Media in Africa is a ten-part podcast about the people driving the change: the editors, entrepreneurs, reporters and trainers who craft narratives and reflect African realities.

Host Georja Calvin-Smith talks with guests about press freedom, shifting audiences, new ways of working and where the continent's journalism goes next. Guests include Lisa MacLeod (FT Strategies), Moky Makura (Africa No Filter), Stephanie Busari (SBB Media) and Marie Lora-Mungai (Restless Global), Ruud Elemendrop (Dutch Africa correspondent).

A new episode every Wednesday. Media in Africa is produced by Meridian17, a Dutch-South African think-and-do tank, in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Media Programme.

]]> RSS.com 2026.817.133114 Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:43:15 GMT en 7c196dea-1fd5-5858-9ad3-db2c6984c20a https://media.rss.com/media-in-africa/podcast_cover_20260818_124113_71ebdfe9c4eff6d01246d50e7ce5674c.png Media in Africa https://rss.com/podcasts/media-in-africa yes © 2026 Meridian17 NPC. All rights reserved. Meridian17 Meridian17 false episodic podcast Africa false <![CDATA[Lisa MacLeod (FT Strategies): Media consumption: who’s looking, where & how? | Media in Africa #1]]> Data so expensive that people choose between connectivity and food. Newsrooms pressured not by censors with scissors, but by governments quietly pulling advertising. And a creator economy about to boom precisely because it travels light. In the first episode of Media in Africa, Georja Calvin-Smith talks with Lisa MacLeod, Director and Head of News Clients at FT Strategies, the Financial Times' consulting arm, about what actually separates Europe's media market from Africa's, and what doesn't.

Drawing on her work with publishers from News24 to Kenya's Nation Media Group, Lisa maps the landscape: why Android, SMS and WhatsApp shape African distribution, how "soft censorship" erodes accountability journalism, where on the continent press freedom is strongest, what the Hanifa Adan case says about legacy media working with news creators, and why visa policy may be the most underrated media policy of all. Plus, as every episode: Lisa's nerd fact, which involves bacterial fermentation.

Media in Africa is a ten-part podcast by Meridian17, a Dutch-South African think and do tank, produced in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Media Programme. New episodes weekly.

Full video episodes: www.youtube.com/@meridian17org All platforms and more: meridian17.org/podcast Follow @meridian17org on Instagram and TikTok.

© 2026 Meridian17 NPC. All rights reserved.

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