Tag Archives: journalism

Solomon King on Becoming an Accidental Journalist

For blogger and citizen journalist Solomon King, the 2009 Kampala riots began with his tweet “Okay, we’re running for our lives.” Here he talks about ...
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Appfricast 16 - Ujima and the Future of Journalism

Reporter Ron Nixon of the New York Times recently sat down with me to discuss the future of journalism and his own project, Ujima. Download or ...
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Week in Review: Kampala Riots, Asynchronous Info, Paypal Alternatives

Appfrica’s weekly review looks back at popular stories from our own blog and others from the week gone-by. This week: Kampala rocked by rioting, the ...
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Asynchronous Info, Disjointed Data and Crisis Reporting

The recent riots in Kampala have revealed a couple of things about the flow of news and how people behave in crisis situations. We still ...
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Hyperlocal Journalism and South Africa

Hyper-local journalism takes the age-old idea of local news and magnifies it. Think of sites like GlobalVoices, the -Ist community and Huffington Post, drilled down ...
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Ethics of Online Journalism

A hacker bypasses company security, steals confidential company information, and emails information obtained to it’s competitors and the press. Is it ethical to then post ...
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April Fools!

Yesterday was April Fools day, a fun day where everyone lies and pulls pranks on each other. April Fools isn’t really celebrated in Africa, but ...
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What Journalism Can Learn from Zimbabwe

There are a million and one reasons why micro-payments won’t save journalism, but ultimately the most obvious is that we are living in a time ...
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Appfricast 6

Culture Wars. This episodes talks about Vodacom, A24 Media’s growing number of partners, Offline Gmail, Disruptive Journalism and more. Download or Stream the Podcast - M4A ...
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Thoughts on Disruptive Journalism

A while back I shared a number of ways I thought RSS could be utilized to reach the more rural, unconnected parts of the earth ...
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