Meredith Beal Receives the African Impact Award at the Voice Achievers Awards
BANJUL, GAMBIA, September 30, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Meredith Beal Receives the African Impact Award at the Voice Achievers Awards throughout the International Business Summit hosted by the Gambian Government. Also, honored at the awards, the First Lady of Sierra Leone, Her Excellency Mrs. Dr. Fatima Madaa Bio, who was named African Woman of the Year.
The Voice Achievers Awards is an annual occasion sponsored by the Voice African Magazine. Beal, a local of Los Angeles, was despatched to Nairobi, Kenya by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2011 to handle a continent-wide program to strengthen the administration abilities of African media house owners. Since then he has visited 27 African nations. As a Knight Fellow, he helped African tv stations handle the advanced transition from analog to digital transmission, conducting coaching classes and connecting African TV executives with consultants from the Federal Communications Commission in Washington DC.
Beal additionally produced a information for African station house owners and operators with recommendations on managing the migration from analog to digital broadcasting, which allowed tv stations all through the area to increase their attain to thousands and thousands of further viewers. During his fellowship, Beal was embedded as a guide to the African Media Initiative (AMI), the continent’s largest umbrella group of African personal media house owners and operators. From that base, he additionally organized worldwide mentors for newspapers throughout Africa, linking consultants at the World Association of Newspapers (WAN-IFRI) with managers at impartial dailies in a number of international locations. He labored with WAN mentors to help the newspapers with plans for newsroom reorganization and convergence to facilitate higher coordination amongst print, broadcast and on-line operations. He additionally organized monetary administration workshops for finance officers of media organizations and is a pioneer evangelizing the open knowledge motion.
Beal served as a delegate at each the United Nations Environment Assembly and at the African Union Assembly. In addition to his function as Sr. Technology Advisor for AMI, he additionally serves as Media/Technology Advisor for United Religions Initiative — Africa. Before changing into an ICFJ Knight and Gates Fellow in 2011, Beal was a media proprietor in the United States for greater than a decade and was named Texas Broadcaster of the Year in 2007.
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