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.
Daily Maverick
The Daily Maverick is expanding its revenue mix with the launch of a membership program: Maverick Insider. The program is being modeled on The Guardian’s voluntary payment approach, where a paywall isn’t implemented on existing articles and features. SAMIP support of this program will result in a toolkit on how small and independent publishers can develop their own membership plans.
Daily Vox
The Daily Vox is a millennial-focused news site that seeks to place citizens at the centre of it all. With an audience of 18 - 34 year olds, TDV has the ability to greatly influence and impact the narrative of issues around issues facing South Africa’s youth.
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.
Gsport4Girls
GSport4Girls is an online initiative that seeks to raise the profile of South African women in sport. Gsport has been providing coverage of women’s sports in South Africa since 2006 and have been hosting the GSport Awards, which recognise achievements by athletes and participants in women’s sports ever since.
Hashtag Our Stories
Hashtag Our Stories 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.
Igunundu Press
Igunundu Press is a South African mass media company which specialises in publishing vernacular newspapers. The company’s publications do not cover just any story, but rather invest in stories with legacy value - with huge context and enterprise journalism. Through its in-house custom content and native marketing agency, Igunundu Agency, it combines newsroom experience and knowledge of language to create ground breaking narratives, native campaigns, and bring content to life in print and digital platforms.
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.
Not Yet Uhuru
Not Yet Uhuru is the new voice of the womxn’s liberation movement in South Africa. Being a digital activism eco-system, Not Yet Uhuru seeks to create a platform for engagement with and between womxn to challenge patriarchy and to build a feminist consciousness on the African continent.
Pocket Reporter
Pocket Reporter is a mobile digital toolkit that assists journalists at community newspapers to report more effectively.
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.
ViewFinder
Viewfinder is a South African investigative journalism start-up. It applies investigative journalism best practice to expose abuses of power which impact on poor and marginalized communities. Viewfinder also aims to produce narrative journalism, especially in the form of video documentary, as a vehicle for their investigative findings. Viewfinder’s mission statement seeks to engage and empower the public, through investigative journalism and storytelling, to hold powerful institutions accountable in pursuit of a more just and inclusive 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.
