Two of Ghana’s leading innovation and professional development institutions have thrown their weight behind the maiden TN Africa Digital Journalism Masterclass, set to hold on September 23, 2026, in Accra.
BR Institute and AfricaWorks have signed on as partners for the one-day training event, which will bring together journalists, students, and digital media professionals from across Africa for an intensive masterclass covering artificial intelligence in journalism, climate storytelling, and monetising a digital media career.
The partnership marks the first formal collaboration between TN Africa and both institutions, and signals a growing institutional interest in structured capacity building for African journalists navigating a rapidly changing media landscape.
What the Masterclass Covers
The programme spans four modules across the day. Participants will work through AI tools for the modern newsroom, practical monetisation strategies for digital journalists, climate storytelling techniques, and a guest masterclass on building a career in digital media.
A fireside chat on the future of African journalism will close the day, bringing together a senior online journalist and an AI expert in a moderated conversation on where the industry is heading and what it means for the next generation of African media professionals.
AfricaWorks will host the event at its Accra facility, providing the physical space and infrastructure for both in-person and virtual attendance. BR Institute’s involvement adds training and professional development expertise to the partnership, reinforcing TN Africa’s commitment to building the event around practical, career-relevant learning rather than theory alone.
A Continental Conversation in One Room
The masterclass is open to journalists and digital media professionals across Africa, with both physical and virtual attendance options available. Participants from over 15 African countries have registered for the event, making it one of the most geographically diverse journalism training events held in Ghana this year.
Senanu Damilola Wemakor, Lead Convener at TN Africa, said the partnership reflects the kind of institutional collaboration the platform has been building toward.
“We are not just training journalists. We are building a community of African media professionals who are equipped for where the industry is going, not where it has been,” he said. “Having BR Institute and AfricaWorks as partners in this first edition means we are starting from a place of genuine institutional strength.”
Registration for the TN Africa Digital Journalism Masterclass is open at thenewsroomafrica.com.
TN Africa’s Take
African journalism has no shortage of talent. What it has historically lacked is structured, continent-relevant training that meets journalists where the industry actually is, not where Western media textbooks say it should be. The BR Institute and AfricaWorks partnership is a signal that institutional Ghana is beginning to take the capacity gap seriously. That is worth watching, and worth building on.