Some Saturday mornings, we invite a publishing pro to put together their top media links. This week’s guest editor is David I. Adeleke.

David is a writer, media analyst, and communications strategist. He publishes a monthly newsletter, Communiqué, which provides an in-depth analysis of media ecosystems across Africa. He’s a columnist for How We Made It In Africa and was previously Editor, Business Insider Africa, both pan-African business publications.

You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.

David says:

"Very often, when we have global conversations around the state of the media, there’s very little consideration for nuances outside the West. Subscription, streaming, funding, digital innovation -- Africa rarely features in these global conversations. However, a lot more goes on on the continent that is significant to these discussions. These resources I’ve shared will provide a different perspective for thinking about the topic."

Podcast: This BuzzFeed-like site has become a cultural powerhouse in Nigeria — podcasts.apple.com

Let’s start from my home country. Conversations around diversity and representation in Nigeria often revolve around ethnicity and politics, but Zikoko is expanding the pool to include sexual orientation, gender equality, social class, etc. The podcast dives deep into the publication’s ethos and how it tackles topics that are considered taboo.

Can podcasts scale in Africa? — davidiadeleke.substack.com

Podcasts are the rave of the moment. Everyone seems to have one or has plans to start one. But despite the medium’s growth, it’s still under-discussed and under-explored in Africa. Why? Also, if there’s any chance it can scale, how? That’s what I examine in this essay.

The mistakes donors make when funding African media — mg.co.za

Doing good journalism is hard anywhere. But it is significantly harder in a continent where the media is underfunded, and press freedom stands on spaghetti legs. To make up for the deficit, donors try to fund independent journalism. However, even that comes with its baggage, and this has severe implications.

How a group of Nigerian journalists are digitising thousands of old newspapers — reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

What happens when you do not have a proper appreciation of history? Or you do not have an appropriate context for everything that happens around you? You become prone to incomplete thinking and are robbed of the wealth of the past. But what if there was a way to put things right? Or at least begin to? That’s what this group of Nigerian journalists has set out to do.

Podcast: Much ado about the media — theflip.africa

This podcast explores the relationship between tech and the media in Africa. It touches on the existing business models for media, the competition for talent, and the increasingly contentious relationship between both ecosystems.

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