Media Viability Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge on how media can survive in challenging times | Media viability | DW | 02.11.2023

We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration.

More info OK
  1. Inhalt
  2. Navigation
  3. Weitere Inhalte
  4. Metanavigation
  5. Suche
  6. Choose from 30 Languages

Media viability

Media Viability Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge on how media can survive in challenging times

Media landscapes are under pressure, with many outlets worldwide locked in an existential struggle. DW Akademie has brought together media viability experts to share experiences and come up with possible solutions.

DW Akademie Media Viability Ambassador

The DW Akademie Media Viability Ambassadors in Bonn in October 2023

  • DW Akademie | Media Viability Ambassador | Asrat Seyoum Chefeke

    Media Viability Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge on how media can survive in challenging times

    Asrat Seyoum Chefeke, Ethiopia

    "Media viability is not just about sustaining news organizations financially," says the media development consultant. "It’s also about ensuring the vitality of democracy itself because a thriving free press is the cornerstone of an informed and empowered society."

  • DW Akademie Gaygysyz Geldiyev

    Media Viability Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge on how media can survive in challenging times

    Gaygysyz Geldiyev, Ukraine

    "The media in Ukraine are in a dire solution," says the Media Viability Ambassador. "Media teams are losing access to workspaces, grappling with the collapse and slow recovery of the advertising market, and addressing audience fragmentation due to mass relocations.It’s crucial to ensure journalist’s safety and independent media's resilience in these trying times."

  • DW Akademie Media Viability Ambassador

    Media Viability Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge on how media can survive in challenging times

    Isabela Ponce, Ecuador

    "In Latin America, we need independent media with robust business models to continue producing journalism content that helps strengthen democracy – in a time when there are so many crises in the region," says the media consultant and editorial chief officer at GK, a digital news site.

  • DW Akademie Media Viability Ambassador

    Media Viability Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge on how media can survive in challenging times

    Mariana Alvarado, Mexico

    "One of the biggest challenges for the media is for them to accept that they need support to professionalize processes and improve workflows, and to put the audience and quality content at the center of their work. Media viability experts can help them with this," says the journalist, consultant and trainer.

  • DW Akademie - Mohammed Almoumin

    Media Viability Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge on how media can survive in challenging times

    Mohammed Almoumin, Iraq

    "The right investment in technical media skills could be the key to journalism’s editorial independence," says the digital content creation trainer. "A large part of the revenue of [my company] 'INFOTAINMENT Ar' comes from providing consultations in the fields of social media algorithms and content creation tactics for private sector companies."

  • DW Akademie - Obioma Okonkwo

    Media Viability Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge on how media can survive in challenging times

    Obioma Okonkwo, Nigeria

    "As a Media Viability Ambassador, journalists' safety is of great concern for me. They – and media outlets worldwide – face repressive laws, arrests, detentions, fines, assaults or death. With media viability, I aim to ensure that media operate in an enabling environment so they can produce high quality journalism," says Okonkwo, who heads the Legal Department at the Media Rights Agenda in Lagos.

  • DW Akademie - Robi Koki Ochieng

    Media Viability Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge on how media can survive in challenging times

    Robi Koki Ochieng, Kenya

    "I believe that by strengthening the organizational capacities of small and medium media houses in Kenya, we will be driving the need to tell more authentic and relevant stories on governance and the day-to-day life of Kenyans," says Ochieng. She is a media and communications scholar at the United States International University-Africa (USIU-AFRICA) in Nairobi.

  • DW Akademie Media Viability Ambassador

    Media Viability Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge on how media can survive in challenging times

    Said Nazir, Pakistan

    "A decreasing trust in journalism, lack of diversity in media, and finding new business models for traditional and new media are critical challenges for media viability in Pakistan," says the journalist and media manager. "As a Media Viability Ambassador, I aim to exchange knowledge and expertise with my cohorts and enhance my consulting and advocacy skills to promote media viability in Pakistan."


  

DW recommends

Tune in: DW Akademie launches new podcast on successful media business models

DW Akademie’s new monthly podcast "Survive and Thrive: The Media Viability Podcast" starts April 29. Media professionals from around the world share experiences in developing innovative and sustainable business models.

Media viability

Audios and videos on the topic

Episode 08: How to survive and thrive with a focus on environmental journalism with Isabela Ponce of GK.city, Ecuador

Episode 07: How to survive and thrive by amplifying marginalized voices with Said Nazir of the Tribal News Network, Pakistan