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 Sylvia Vollenhoven is an Knight Development Journalism Fellow who will lead a project to improve coverage of poverty and development issues in Ghana.
Create new networks linking professional journalists at major news outlets with local and citizen journalists in rural areas via mobile technology. The new teams will focus on issues such as agriculture, rural development, sanitation and microfinance.
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An award-winning journalist and media trainer from South Africa, she is the founder of the VIA – Vision in Africa media organization, which has spearheaded innovative international training initiatives. As the Africa representative for the Thomson Foundation, Vollenhoven also was the lead trainer for the Foundation's first-ever documentary filmmaking course at Cardiff University in 2008.
More recently, she brokered a collaboration between the Foundation and key African partners to launch the Africa Means Business (AMB) project, a long-term, pan-African training initiative for business journalists. Vollenhoven served as the facilitator for the AMB pilot training seminar in Nairobi in June 2009.
In the early 1990s, Vollenhoven was the Southern African Correspondent for the Swedish newspaper, Expressen, and was awarded Sweden’s top journalism prize, one of many awards she received for her work. She later went into broadcasting, joining the South African Broadcasting Corporation, where she held a variety of positions over the years, including reporter, producer, trainer and manager. Subsequently, she has been a consultant for the SABC and for the Kaiser Family Foundation, training broadcast media professionals across Africa.
For 10 years, Vollenhoven served as the Southern Africa Coordinator for the International Public Television (INPUT) organization, raising the profile of public broadcasting in the region.
Contact: svollenhoven@knight.icfj.org
Partner Organization: Joy FM
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FROM THE FIELD:
FELLOW BLOG
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Earthquakes & Media Freedoms
This morning thousands of people all over Ghana arrived late for work and they were exhausted from being up all night… all for the same reason. No, it had nothing to do with a sports match in a different time zone. Ghanaians everywhere did not sleep because they feared an earthquake.
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