AYV News, September 2, 2024
Staff, Stringers and Volunteers of the Newsroom Department at the Africa Young Voices (AYV) Media Empire, have completed an in-house refreshers training, capacitated with modern methods and skills of news gathering, writing and reporting.
With its well-active Media Academy, AYV offers a series of intensive training sessions on reporting elections, democracy, agriculture, education, health and human rights, as well as mentorship and support for innovative and impactful in-depth series of stories.
AYV’s acting Director of News and Current Affairs (NCA), Elizabeth Momoh said the training seeks to equip her team with skills in crucial reporting of underrepresented voices and underreported issues of national interest and more.
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AYV has established a strategic partnership with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the world service programme in London. This partnership offers both AYV and the BBC a world-class broadcasting platform and resources for our audiences.
The AYV’s reputation and the strength of its brand in Sierra Leone and around the world are based upon its fundamental values of editorial integrity, independence, and impartiality. These values are central both to the AYV’s Public Services and our Commercial Services. Audiences everywhere must be able to trust the AYV. To achieve that, our impartiality, editorial integrity, and independence must not be compromised by outside interests and arrangements. We must maintain independent editorial control over our content.
The AYV fellowship and stringers Programme has enabled the best and the brightest people to contribute to election process and build their skills and experience.