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Launch: StoryLab Academy to support newsrooms in 12 African cities

Launch: StoryLab Academy to support newsrooms in 12 African cities

The training, in partnership with Google News Lab, will combine face-to-face mentorship and online tuition.
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Justin Arenstein
News-Gathering in the Digital Age.

News-Gathering in the Digital Age.

Informational demands of today’s audiences are redefining news-gathering and reporting. What does this mean for journalists skills today?
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Muthoni Wanyoike
Apps empower Kenya’s citizen reporters to document breaking news

Apps empower Kenya’s citizen reporters to document breaking news

How leading newspapers are helping readers to cover important events.
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Catherine Gicheru
How data could change African newsrooms

How data could change African newsrooms

— By Lily Kuo and Jackie Bischof
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Jackie Bischof
YALI TechCamp Abidjan: Towards technology and tools for transparency

YALI TechCamp Abidjan: Towards technology and tools for transparency

How the Young African Leaders Initiative is working to improve accountability.
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Blaise Aboh
Building LiveWire at a time of protest

Building LiveWire at a time of protest

We started building Grassroot LiveWire in April this year. Grassroot itself is a set of tools for activists and leaders in marginalized…
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Luke Jordan
In Uganda, Atlas for Africa participants aim to track refugees, government budgets, and civic data

In Uganda, Atlas for Africa participants aim to track refugees, government budgets, and civic data

In Kampala, we had the opportunity to work with more than 20 journalists from a range of publications across the country. Our first…
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Lily Kuo
Eyewitness platform sprint 1 report

Eyewitness platform sprint 1 report

The Eyewitness platform is an open source Faceb00k Messenger bot and management interface designed to let news organisations create their…
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Tom Hewitson
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How an SMS tool is bringing rape survivors into the media sphere

How an SMS tool is bringing rape survivors into the media sphere

In South Africa, more than 100 women are raped every day. Health-e News, one of the ImpactAfrica grant winners, has launched a new SMS…
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Ashlin Simpson
Nairobi: A civic tech metropolis

Nairobi: A civic tech metropolis

We begin our ‘Cities of Code for Africa’ series with a look at Kenya’s capital.
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Kwasi Gachie
In Egypt, making Atlas more friendly to Arabic users

In Egypt, making Atlas more friendly to Arabic users

Over the course of a week in late July, Atlas for Africa training took place in a set of diverse newsrooms and organizations in Egypt’s…
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Abdi Latif Dahir
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