Thanks Alex for your message, and feedback. We are always looking for opportunities to engage with issues that affect the media, and its relationship with society. I am sure the roundtables offer us a chance to interact with issues regarding media performance. Many thanks. George

Dear George, all,

Thank you for inviting me to this event held yesterday. The conversation was indeed enlightening and without intending it to “spillover” to social media , allow me to speak to an issue raised by one of the panelists? Convinced that if media houses corrected the situation readers would enjoy richer content.

Consider an email message received in April 2010 that read, in part; -

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“I remember you promised to send me a copy of the final piece Alex. Every reporter with whom I deal... promises to send me a copy of their final story... yet very few do... so I'm particularly grateful to you.”

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Coming from corporate Media Relations Executive in Washington D.C. with over 25 years industry experience.

It'd be interesting if the School of Journalism conducted a study on if and how journalists got back to their content sources with their final pieces? (after publishing of course) For a long time contributors have been left wondering in the dark when or where their citation/ contribution was published, or if at all.

A long time ago contributors used to receive complimentary copies but, we know, cost cutting led to abolishing of the practice but today can email then a scanned copy?

The importance could never be emphasized enough because the very journalist, if not occasionally, find themselves going back to the same sources seeking fresh contributions on other subjects therefore if went the extra mile find themselves better positioned to extract even more and better researched content from same contributors.

And those that “run off” and publish wherever disregarding even a courteous notification, say, even a web link have a harder time convincing contributors that it is worth the while to invest a lot more of their time when responding to their new queries thus offering "quite light" subsequent contributions.

Concerns me not as contributor myself, but more as an information consumer desirous of even richer media content.

From wherever I got my generosity of opinion? Nonetheless, wish Kwamchetsi Makokha a headache free day:-)

regards,

Alex

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:32 AM, George Nyabuga <gnyabuga@uonbi.ac.ke>wrote:

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Dear friends,

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Nairobi, the Media Focus on Africa Foundation, the Media Institute, and the Kenya Editors’ Guild are pleased to invite you to participate in a Media Round Table to be held on 30 August 2011, between 12 and 2pm, at the Alliance Francaise to discuss the relationship between the media and civil society, and their role in the consolidation of democracy in Kenya. The panelists will be Prof Kivutha Kibwana, President Mwai Kibaki’s Advisor on Constitutional, Parliamentary and Youth Affairs, Dr Joyce Nyairo of Ford Foundation Office for Eastern Africa, Cyprian Nyamwamu of the National Convention Executive Council, Andy Kagwa of The Standard Group, and Wilson Ugangu of Multimedia University. The event will be open to members of the public to enhance public understanding of the role of the media in the Kenyan society. Former newspaper editor, regular media commentator and consultant Kwamchetsi Makokha will moderate the discussions.

This is part of a series of monthly round table meetings held on the last Tuesday of every month. The remit of the Monthly Media Round Tables is to deeply examine, in conversations with various organisations and people like academics/scholars, media practitioners/journalists, civil society, policy makers, media stakeholders, politicians, and ‘ordinary’ Kenyans, the role of the media in Kkenya.

The event will be open to members of the public. Entry is FREE. We look forward to your participation.

-- Dr George Nyabuga Associate Director School of Journalism & Mass Communication University of Nairobi Education Building Harry Thuku Road PO Box 30197 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254(0)20 318262 Fax: +254(0)20 2229168 Mobile: +254 (0)72151 6573 Email: gnyabuga@uonbi.ac.ke, gnyabuga@yahoo.co.uk www.uonbi.ac.ke

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