The new digital news channel will showcase ‘Afrika as it’s’, offering its viewers with another narrative about Africa and that includes international tales of significance to the continent with wealthy, well timed and balanced info.
(TRTWorld)
Türkiye’s public broadcaster TRT has launched a brand new digital news platform, TRT Afrika, to focus on tales of and from the continent to a world viewers in 4 languages: Swahili, English, Hausa and French.
The channel went stay on Friday throughout the second day of the ‘First Broadcasting Summit’ organised by TRT and The African Union of Broadcasting in Istanbul. The three-day summit started on March 30.
In line with TRT’s targets of neutral and inclusive journalism, TRT Afrika will present its viewers with another narrative about Africa and have international tales of significance to the continent with wealthy, well timed and balanced info.
It additionally will give voice to tales from Africa and Africans within the diaspora, placing the distinctive mix of their core values on the coronary heart of the world’s occasions.
With workers members from 15 international locations within the continent, TRT Afrika‘s digital goal is to turn into a trusted news supply within the continent, that includes international tales important to African audiences and producing high-quality content material for globally-connected youth on social media.
It goals to supply distinctive digital content material, unique tales, investigations and documentaries of native African points to African and international audiences and meet the knowledge wants of the African diaspora worldwide.
TRT Afrika might be energetic in dozens of African international locations from Gambia to Morocco, Nigeria to Cameroon. In this manner, it additionally extends Türkiye’s longstanding dedication to Africa, offering a platform for African voices to be heard and celebrated worldwide.
TRT Afrika is the most recent member of the TRT household that embody TRT World, TRT Arabic, TRT Russian, TRT Deutsch, TRT Français and TRT Balkan – all individually and collectively bringing numerous voices and views to international audiences.
TRT Afrika summit
Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun, TRT General Manager Mehmet Zahid Sobaci, and African Broadcasting Union senior supervisor Gregoire Ndjaka will give opening speeches for TRT Afrika on Friday.
On the primary day of the summit on Thursday, representatives of the African Broadcasting Union got here collectively underneath the theme “Towards a Sustainable Future: Reshaping the Public Broadcasting Service”.
At least 23 journalists from 16 African international locations have been additionally skilled on subjects resembling “Change of the media during the pandemic process”, “Contribution of technology to the change of journalism”, and “Tools to be used against the Western ethnocentric approach”.
Later on Friday, the summit will characteristic talks on subjects resembling: “Africa-Türkiye Relations in the Mirror of Public Service Media: Shared Vision and Future Challenges”, “How Can African and Turkish Public Service Media Stay Sustainable in the Digital Age?” and “The Changing Face of Global News Feeds: Common for a Fairer World”.
It will proceed with panels on “Telling African Stories with Vision”.
Source: TRTWorld and companies
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