ZANZIBAR'S MOST TRUSTED NEWS BRAND
The Zanzibar Journalists Capacity Building Foundation by its acronym ZANJournal is a Zanzibar Training, Education, and Research for media services professionals. It combines the efforts of journalists seeking to deepen their journalistic expertise, knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
The specific objectives of the organization are;
The Zanzibar Journalists Capacity Building Foundation organizes a number of Educational projects throughout the: seminars, workshops, and Master Classes with a view to developing for each program to offer a ‘ program specification ’ that would, in addition to subject-specific skills such as investigative skills, field-work skills and hence produce specialized journalists in various field in order to make critical analysis of specific issues.
Meanwhile, the reputable Tanzania Journalists Association was the first Journalists Association of Tanzania, TAJA, established in June 1966 under Hon. Benjamin William Mkapa was the first chairman. Hon. Mkapa became the third phase President of Tanzania, 1995-2005.
Tanzania had only one Journalists Association after independence, until 21 years later in 1987 when TAMWA was established. In 1995, about 30 years after the formation of TAJA. This was followed by mushrooming of the Journalists’ Association in the country which included MISA-TAN, JET, AJM, AJAAT, IJUTA, MOAT, TASWA, TPC, TUJ, TEF, and the Zanzibar Journalists Capacity Building Foundation.
Mass Media in Zanzibar are faced by lack of training and mentorship of media services professional. A research conducted by ZANJournal shows that training media services professional is hardly one percent. Zanzibar Journal is into existence to meet this challenge through the implementation of a strategic plan effectively from 2022-2027.
The Zanzibar Journalists Capacity Building Foundation is a Local Professional Civil Society organization for Training, Education and Research for media services professionals registered as a non-profit non – government organization (NGO), established under Zanzibar Civil Societies Act No.6 of 1995 and was issued with a Certificate of the registration number. 2292 on 03rd day of July 2014.
Vision: Advance Journalistic Knowledge is a means of creating the future.
Mission: To support journalists to write efficiently and effectively through building their competencies.
WHAT WE DO:
Zanzibar Journal belief is that the ‘ Pen ‘ is mighty and nothing can stand against it. Likewise, since the pen is fundamental tool of any media practitioner and powerful source of information to the people, it can be used effectively as a strategic tool in development.
Zanzibar Journalists Capacity Building Foundation – Zanzibar Journal is well known for creating awareness to the media services professionals and community in general. Our strategic activities includes;
KEY RESULTS:
OUR GOALS:
Through the strategic plan (2022-2027) Zanzibar Journal will be able to enroll into its program 120 editorial managers and media owners, provide awards to 60 journalists, allocate 80 journalists to rural areas, and 400 articles from the rural areas written, published, and aired within the strategic period of five years. One of the Zanzibar Journal objectives is to build competencies of journalists so that they can write and produced efficient and effective news in Zanzibar. Zanzibar Journal targets to train 120 journalists, produced 32 Radio and TV Media talk shows, 60 news blogs/Websites,160 books, and 8,000 success stories brochure printed within the strategic period of five years.
Zanzibar Journal works in Zanzibar and for Tanzanians, our members are individual journalists from print media such as: The Guardian, Nipashe, Zanzibar leo, Daily times, Majira, Zanzibar mail, The Citizen, Mwananchi, Mtanzania, Uhuru, Alasiri, PST, Daily News, Sunday News, MAELEZO, Tanzania Daima, The African, This Day, Sunday observer, Uwazi, Hoja, Annur, Business Times, ChangaMoto, Femina, Health focus, Magazine, and others from Electronics media(TVs and radio Stations and Blog/Website and Forums) are ZBC, BBC, ITV, TBC, Radio uhuru, Radio one, Radio free Africa, DTV/Channel ten, Clouds FM, Zenj FM, Chuchu FM, Coconut FM, Bahari FM, Spice FM, Wasafi FM, Radio Qur-an, Radio Upendo, and others wishing to join our organisation.