Not the easiest job, but the most rewarding

“I became a managing editor to ensure that our editorial line highlights the issues faced by our audiences. We try to offer possible solutions as they don’t want to only hear about the problems.This is anything but an easy task, but as an outlet we are aware of how important our role is to write informative news that addresses the issues in the community and encourages our audience to find solutions.”

In 2016, our media outlet received support from Free Press Unlimited and Synergy to develop ourselves and create policies. Their guidance and coaching focused on many elements, including good governance procedures, transparency, security, financial and gender policies. After a few years of policy development, together we really internalised these policies and practiced good governance. Over the years, we have made the effort to train staff to keep institutional memory, but it was a challenge for our organisation when people continue to leave and those resources left along with them. In those moments, we struggled to implement efficiently and under time constraints when there has been high turnover. But, we are proud that more people are trained in this sector, and we try to maintain the knowledge sharing as much as possible. My part in this was to attend training courses in management, finance and ethics, all given by coaches and consultants who understood our situation well. Since then, we produced our own procedures and guide books and now have valid structures, an accounting system and even a management flow that allows us to be sustainable.”