Children’s Radio Foundation
Children’s Radio Foundation is a Cape Town based radio station that uses radio to create opportunities for information sharing, dialogue, leadership, advocacy and community building among youth. CRF seeks to extend the capacity, reach and impact of their community radio partners through the integration of WhatsApp into their reporting, broadcast, and outreach platforms.
Collective Media Cooperative
Collective Media Cooperative is a new venture that seeks to make media work for audiences and media workers who have been structurally excluded from ownership, education and training, and representation in South African media. Their products, Abacebisi & Mosele, provide freelance media workers CRM systems and content management support.
Digest
Digest is a daily email newsletter that selects, summarises and explains financial news in a quirky and millennial-friendly format. Digest is growing their newsletter to incorporate more local languages and is developing financial value-added products and services for millennials.
Hashtag Our SA
Hashtag Our SA is a Durban based company that creates citizen journalism shows, with mobile phones and for mobile audiences, in every language. Their project seeks to train and create a network of citizen journalists who will contribute stories to community Facebook groups.
Media Factory Africa
Media Factory is a mobile content agency for citizen journalists across South Africa. Their project seeks to create a virtual newsroom that will connect news editors to reliable and verified freelancer journalists and connect freelance journalists, working outside the main media centres in SA to news editors who require their experience in covering breaking news.
The New Era
The New Era is an initiative aimed at digitising 8 community newspapers in Mpumalanga province. The New Era will be focused on digitising community media organisations.
Pocket Reporter
Pocket Reporter is a mobile digital toolkit that assists journalists at community newspapers to report more effectively.
Soul City
The Soul City Institute for Social Justice is a national social justice NGO that caters for Young Womxn and Girls (YWGs). Their project, Not Yet Uhuru Radio, will cater for Young Womxn and Girls and the communities they live in. NYU will be a mix of talk radio and music. The radio station seeks to serve as a platform for engagement with and between womxn, to challenge patriarchy and build a feminist consciousness in South Africa.
Volume
Volume is a Johannesburg based new venture that seeks to bring local news back to community radio stations. Volume News seeks to make use of technology tools to ensure that every community in the country can produce and distribute Volume News via their community radio station.
