Hello Listers, Greetings from Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) is implementing the Building Resilient and Independent Media Ecosystems in Africa (BRIMEA) Project, a two-year programme seeking to enable more resilient media ecosystems in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia through a combination of legal and media interventions. The initiative provides journalists and newsrooms with media-related and legal support to strengthen their editorial independence and financial sustainability. In line with this, TRF is developing legal research and providing legal support, while also building the capacity of media practitioners and media organisations, both conventional and digital/social media. The project has conducted research on the legal and regulatory environment in the target countries in addition to research on the legal needs of media practitioners. Insights from these reports will be shared with an audience of lawyers, media support organisations, media associations, and media practitioners in dissemination events in the three countries. TRF seeks a consultant to develop a presentation that focuses on sharing key insights from the legal and regulatory reports from Kenya, South Africa and Zambia as well as the legal needs assessment. The country level reports explore the legal and regulatory framework of the media, including the framework on the regulation of foreign ownership and transparency of ownership of media. The legal needs assessment identifies legal vulnerabilities and needs of both media outlets and individual media practitioners. TRF seeks a consultant to synthesize key themes and identified needs from across the four reports and create a dynamic presentation package that includes speaker notes, a PowerPoint presentation, and suggestions for dynamic delivery from an information sharing perspective. The consultant will also develop a set of discussion questions for group discussion sessions lead by media freedom legal professionals with the group in attendance at the presentation session(s). We are seeking a journalist, lawyer, or academic for this consultancy. Academics may be very well positioned as they’re accustomed to developing and presenting content based on research therefore we are reaching out to you or your colleagues who would be a best fit. The candidate should be familiar with best practices for speaking/communicating information to foster learning, how to develop discussion questions that foster interesting conversation, etc We seek to engage a consultant on a freelance basis, working up to a maximum of 25 hours (subject to agreement) in March 2023. Kindly find attached a detailed TOR for this role. Please note that the deadline has been extended to *15th March 2023. *We are happy for you to apply or share with a wider suitable audience. Kind Regards, Lydia Obiero