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• Reporting On Trade: A Kenyan View

Trade reporters see themselves as having a duty to report in a way that educates the public, makes them aware of the decisions that government officials are about to make and explains how these will affect ordinary people. Local journalists, driven by local stories, usually find it hard to comprehend the actions of international players. As for international debates involving Africa, it is hard for a journalist to keep up -- especially when there are no specialized reporters. Journalists could play a major role in helping business sectors break into new markets, but they are not consulted enough. So the coverage is usually disjointed, rambling and at times stale. There is an urgent need to train a pool of African journalists to exclusively follow globalization stories from an informed p...

...Training should also target rural newspaper bureaux. Most stories come from rural areas and th...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 4/2006, Octobre 2006

• Strengthening Trade Coverage in the Media

As world attention focuses on negotiations on the rules of international trade, one crucial aspect that remains largely ignored is the role of the media in both developed and developing countries in raising public awareness and debate about trade policy-making. Although there is frequent coverage of the views of national traders' associations and other powerful domestic interests on trade rules, the voices of the poor and marginalized rarely find a mention. Many of the world's poorest countries fail to send journalists to international trade negotiation meetings, either because of resource constraints or because they do not consider it a priority. If, as part of its public interest responsibilities, the media is to report on trade from the perspective of development and poverty reductio...

..., it remains a challenge to encourage newspapers to report on trade and development at a time when ... countries, including Mauritius, Uganda and Kenya, have set up structures to widen stakeholder consu...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 4/2006, Octobre 2006