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University of the Witwatersrand’s department of Journalism hosts the Wits China Africa Reporting Project. The project was initiated in 2009 through a funding grant from the Open Society Foundation. The mandate of the project is to enhance both the quality and quantity of journalistic reporting on China in view of its rise and influence in Africa. The Project continues to address issues around the many myths, uncertainties and generally poor reporting of the role of China in Africa, not just in economic spheres but also in such other fields as politics, diplomacy, and the environment. The objective of the project is to promote objective and balanced reporting on China-Africa relations.
Furthermore, the project conducts African journalists capacity building workshops and offers research grants to African journalists covering China-Africa stories.
The project has published and produced such resources as the ‘Fair China-in-Africa Investigations’, and a multimedia guide to covering the Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) conference called ‘Reporting FOCAC’ – this is in collaboration with the multimedia resource programme China Africa Project. (Wits Journalism, 2016)
Website: http://china-africa-reporting.co.za/