Indiegraf profiles Happs and shines a spotlight on broadcasters Maryann Okon and Alex Mohajer
“Happs has helped me to bypass all the hassle, restrictions and suppression in the Nigerian media space,” says Okon.
“Bringing professional newscasts to independent journalists” [Indiegraf] is a deep dive on Happs by Shivani Persad, a journalist from Trinidad and Tobago. (Persad is a Happs broadcaster too and you can check out her profile here.)
In the piece, she discusses two successful broadcasters on Happs, Mary-Ann Okon and Alex Mohajer.
Maryann Okon is a reporter in Nigeria who has been extensively covering the #EndSARS movement in Lagos on Happs. “Happs has helped me to bypass all the hassle, restrictions and suppression in the Nigerian media space,” she says. “I’ve been able to break stories faster than normal and I get a conversation going on a matter arising, even without being in a studio.”
Alex Mohajer is one of Happs’ most successful journalists since the new iteration. “Happs allows individuals to be their own media apparatus, that’s the benefit, you’re not constrained to a corporate culture or the talking points of your organization,” he says. Mohajer started with a few hundred views and he now receives almost 5,000 views per broadcast of his show The AM Report, a show giving a progressive take on political news.
Also, Mark Goldman, co-founder and CEO of Happs, explains how Happs will help broadcasters break free from traditional corporations.
Goldman says the goal is to “put these tools in the hands of independent journalists and local media organizations all over the world and let them do broadcast journalism at a scale that we would never be able to replicate if we were acting like a large media corporation. That way of producing news is on it’s way out.”
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