Simon Inou

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Simon Inou is a journalist and media critic from Cameroon who works for Austrian and international media.

Career and occupation

After studying sociology in Douala , in 1992 he co-founded “Le Messager des Jeunes”, the first youth newspaper in Cameroon, where he worked as an editor until 1995. At the same time he was working for the then weekly newspaper “Le Messager”.

Inou moved to Austria in 1995. From 1998 to 2005 he was editor-in-chief of Radio Afrika International. From 2000 to 2005 he also worked for Wiener Zeitung , from 2004 also co-founder and editor-in-chief of Afrikanet .

Logo of the M-Media association

In 2005 Inou M-Media, Association for the Promotion of Intercultural Media Work , founded an association of migrants in Austria based in Vienna , which advocates more ethnic diversity in Austrian media companies and an appropriate representation of immigrants in the Austrian mainstream media . From 2008 M-Media organized an annual media fair at which ethnic media in Austria were given the opportunity to present themselves; In October 2014, M-MEDIA organized the trade fair together with senel2b communications as “Diversity Media Week” in Vienna. In the years 2008 to 2013 and 2014/2015 M-Media published the Austrian media manual Migration and Diversity .

From January 28, 2007, M-Media employees worked with editors from the daily newspaper Die Presse to create an editorial page on Austrian topics. The aim of this project was to allow more perspectives from representatives of the ethnic communities to flow into the reporting and to learn from each other. For the project, M-Media received the “2008 Award for Intercultural Dialogue Projects” from the Ministry of Education. The cooperation with “Die Presse”, which was initially only planned for 2008 - the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue - was initially continued after this year. Overall, the "integration page" (in print version) was continued until the end of 2012. In addition, special training and further education offers enabled migrants to gain a foothold in Austrian journalism . In October 2012 he founded the Lichtfarben picture agency, whose aim is to facilitate the media illustration of content that revolves around migration for Austrian media.

In 2007, Inou and Béatrice Achaleke initiated the BlackAustria communication campaign to break down prejudices against black people living in Austria.

In the summer of 2009, Inou criticized the Eskimo advertising campaign with the slogan "I will Mohr" as racist, whereupon the ice cream producer had the advertising posters removed.

Inou is often present in the media in articles, comments and interviews on topics related to Africans in Austria.

Awards

Simon Inou or the projects he initiated have received several awards:

  • 2002 Styrian journalism award from the Styrian state government for reporting on the countries of the south
  • 2004 Award for “special services in the African communities” as part of the “PAMOJA Black History Month”
  • 2005 Interkulturpreis Oberösterreich with the project Afrikanet
  • 2007 Austrian winner of the journalists' competition “For Diversity. Against Discrimination ”by the European Commission
  • 2008 M-Media sponsorship award for intercultural dialogue from the Ministry of Education
  • 2011 Prelate Leopold Ungar recognition award in the “Print” category to M-Media

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Simon Inou. In: projektxchange.at. 2019, accessed November 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ Association "M-MEDIA, Association for the Promotion of Intercultural Media Work" in the Austrian register of associations (available at https://citizen.bmi.gv.at/at.gv.bmi.fnsweb-p/zvn/public/Registerauszug ). ZVR number 837010697, extract from the association register accessed on November 25, 2019.
  3. ↑ Medien.Messe.Migration: “Diversity is without alternative”. In: dijaspora.tv. September 24, 2013, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  4. ^ Vienna: The first Diversity Media Week. In: dijaspora.tv. October 13, 2014, accessed May 7, 2019 .
  5. ^ M-MEDIA, Association for the Promotion of Intercultural Media Work. In: netzkraft.net. Retrieved May 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ New: The Austrian Media Handbook Migration & Diversity 2014/15. In: m-media.or.at. Retrieved May 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ M-Media: Award for migrant project, diepresse.com . Retrieved March 25, 2010.
  8. ^ Michaela Bruckberge: M-Media: Award for migrant project. In: diepresse.com. December 12, 2008, accessed May 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Clara Akinyosoye: The last integration page: It was our duty. In: diepresse.com. Retrieved May 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ M-Media founds Lichtfarben photo agency. Accessed January 31, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Controversial "I will mohr" campaign is running out, diepresse.com . Retrieved March 25, 2010.
  12. ↑ Journalist Awards: Awards. In: suedwind-magazin.at. 2002, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  13. ↑ M-Media: Award for migrant project. In: diepresse.com. December 12, 2008, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  14. ^ Leopold-Ungar Prize for M-Media editorial team. In: diepresse.com. November 8, 2011, accessed May 6, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Clara Akinyosoye: M-MEDIA receives Prelate Leopold Ungar journalist prize. In: m-media.or.at. November 8, 2011, accessed May 6, 2019 .