Xinhua Hosts AI Training Workshop for Journalists in Kenya

On August 26, 2025, Xinhua News Agency’s Africa Regional Bureau hosted a journalism training workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, themed “The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Journalism” (AI崛起及對新聞業影響). According to Xinhua, nearly 100 editors and reporters from mainstream media outlets in Kenya, Ethiopia, Botswana, and other African countries participated in the hybrid-format event — described by Xinhua as the first journalism training exchange hosted by a Chinese media outlet for African media. The workshop showcased Xinhua’s AI-integrated news workflows and framed the event explicitly around how Global South media could strengthen AI cooperation to empower news production and counter disinformation. Rosalia Omungo, Secretary-General of the Kenya Editors’ Guild (肯尼亞編輯協會), said after the training that China’s practices offered African media “a model to learn from,” while Patrick Vidija, an editor at the Standard (旗幟報), Kenya’s oldest English-language daily, described the training as timely in broadening understanding of AI applications in journalism.