What changed
The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development has launched the Living Archives Initiative, a project to digitise and preserve the works and legacies of people who shaped journalism across Africa.
Dapo Olorunyomi, CJID’s chief executive and publisher of PREMIUM TIMES, announced the initiative on 23 October 2026.
Why it matters
Journalism history often survives in scattered newspapers, recordings and personal collections. Preserving that material digitally could make the work of African journalists and journalism institutions easier to find and keep available across the continent.
The value of the initiative will depend on what it gathers, how it is funded and whether people can access the archive. Those details have not yet been reported. For now, the important step is that CJID has publicly committed to treating journalism’s past as an asset worth preserving, rather than material left to disappear in private files and ageing archives.
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