Here are some of the latest updates from in and around the South Africa Media Innovation Program.
Hashtag unveils new made-for-Snapchat show
SA-born mobile storytelling agency Hashtag Our Stories has delivered a new show on Snapchat: ‘Our Health’ features stories of people who found their strength through health challenges. It is the latest entrant from their innovative use of compelling human-interest stories that are adapted to new media formats.
? One of the first SAMIP participants, SA-born mobile storytelling agency @hashtagourstory, keeps doing the things: they just launched a new show on Snapchat!
‘Our Health’ features stories of people who found their strength through health challenges: https://t.co/BXPiT7KBvi
— SA Media Innovation (@SAMIP_MDIF) February 23, 2021
Building the business of women’s sports
Gsport, a media initiative dedicated to women’s sports, has announced a partnership with Henley Business School (Henley Africa) to develop a strategy to support the growth of women’s sports as a sector.
? #HENLEYAFRICA IS IN THE GAME: The aim of the gsport and Henley collaboration is to create a practical framework to educate and grow international-level managers working to advance women in sport and build an industry commanding international respect https://t.co/REzGb3K8TF
— Henley Africa (@HenleyAfrica) February 17, 2021
Handing the mic to women on Budget Day
Last week as South Africa’s finance minister Tito Mboweni delivered his latest budget address, the latest media briefing from Quote This Woman+ highlighted economists and finance experts on its diverse community of experts who could give comment and analysis on the grim state of South Africa’s economy.
SA’s 2021 #BudgetSpeech looms – our latest newsletter has a list of women+ experts who can talk to journalists working on stories around the issue. See them here:https://t.co/12UcmDpvV2
— Quotethiswoman+ (@quotethiswoman) February 23, 2021
Profiling children’s stories about a Covid world
Youth media outlet The Daily Vox held a Facebook Live event with Vox alumni, Nathi Nguabane, whose children’s book series on COVID-19, ‘Duma Says’, has been praised bythe health minister
Kickstarting innovation in the region
SAMIP’s Bilal Randaree spoke at the latest meetup hosted by Wits Journalism’s Jamlab, alongside Dr Njoki Chege from the Media Innovation Centre at Kenya’s Aga Khan University, on the opportunities to support media innovation in African contexts.
R100k in support of open data
Media Hack Collective reached a new milestone in the ongoing crowdfunding of their Covid-19 data dashboard: R100,000 in individual contributions. March 2021 marks a full year since the dashboard’s launch.
We’ve just reached R100k in donations for our dashboard! ?Thank you so much to everyone that donated, your support is appreciated more than you know and helps us to keep doing this work. Thank you. ? https://t.co/b3EkJw5oGO pic.twitter.com/Tg6jYBte0e
— Media Hack (@mediahackza) February 23, 2021
Scrolla meets the man behind the material
When everyone else was talking about the shirt Zuma’s been wearing for his infamous political tea parties with politicians, mobile-first news service Scrolla spoke to the man behind the design of the shirt.
Volume doubles down on podcasts (again)
Podcasting start-up Volume launched two new podcasts in the past few weeks: their first production in Afrikaans, NuusmetSpies, is a weekly news roundup podcast with journalist Mia Spies; #PowerOfTheStreets, produced with Human Rights Watch, focuses on stories of human rights activsts.
?New Podcast Alert?
Volume is excited to announce the launch of a new podcast series #PowerOfTheStreets brought to you by @hrw featuring some of the people driving Africa’s #MeToo movement and human rights activism.
Hosted by @akawire and produced by @andisiwemichell pic.twitter.com/ZrJ5ajMohe
— Volume (@VolumeAfrica) March 1, 2021
Jobs alerts
- Scrolla is looking for a correspondent in Cape Town.
- explain.co.za is hiring for its intern cohort.