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Communications Journalism Media

Africa and the Western Media’s Blind Spots

November 1, 2023 at 6:30pm8:30pm EDT

Newhouse 3, 432

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Join Nigerian journalist David Adeleke, Africa editor at Rest of World, for an interactive and frank dialogue about the misrepresentations of Africa in the western media and how Africans are changing the narrative.

About David

David I. Adeleke is the Africa editor at Rest of World. Previously, he headed Business Insider Africa and worked as an editor at Ventures Africa and TechCabal. He has a mass communication degree from Covenant University, a storytelling for modern media certificate from Yale University and a media and journalism fellowship with the Charles Koch Institute.

Yummy food will be provided.

Event co-sponsors:

Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, CODE^SHIFT, Magazine, News and Digital Journalism Program, Horvitz Chair in Journalism Innovation and the Renée Crown University Honors Program

If you would like to join the event virtually: https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/j/95044039999

Meeting ID: 950 4403 9999 

This event was first published on October 20, 2023 and last updated on October 31, 2023.


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