What is a media platform in 2016? Is it newspaper, TV channel, mobile app, a YouTube/SnapChat channel or even a customized quarterly print magazine? Increasingly, publishers are having to live on a variety of new and, at times, old platforms to remain connected with an ever more distracted audience.

The Future of Africa’s Media in a Platform-Agnostic Age is an intimate panel discussion which will look at the unique challenges publishers face in delivering on the promise of being all things to all audiences in this still relatively early stage of building digital platforms in Africa.

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