JAMFEST Parallel Workshop in Collaboration with DW Akademie: TikTok Journalism

Venue: Huawei Room

Format: Workshop

Moderators: 

1. Stefanie Duckstein, DW Akademie, Project Manager Southern Africa, Media Trainer
2. Lungile Ngwenya, Centre for Innovation and Technology, Social Media Editor 

Session Overview:

This session will be in the form of a workshop, equipping journalists with an informative training manual on how they can incorporate the fastest-growing social media platform, TikTok into their storytelling. DW has compiled a training manual which is meant to train small newsrooms across the continent with critical skills like branding themselves on the platform and familiarising themselves with the ever-changing algorithm.