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The Jamlab online magazine showcases journalism and media innovations and innovators in Africa. We aim to grow a network of innovators and to help build a ‘community of practice’ of media makers that can support each other by sharing advice and experience.
WATCH | Innovation in fact-checking in Africa
Fact-checking organisations in Africa have been working around the clock over the past several months to debunk and tackle the damaging s...
Jul 15, 2020 / Read More
Congo Check brings fact-checking to the streets and doubles its reach
By Harrison Mantas
Jul 15, 2020 / Read More
What we are reading
The BBC World Service has launched The Comb — a brand new weekly podcast for young listeners in Africa, presented by Zimbabwean journalis...
Jul 14, 2020 / Read More
Apply for the 2020 Jamlab Accelerator Programme southern Africa
Are you working on something that you think could reshape media or journalism in southern Africa? Do you have skills you could apply to c...
Jul 02, 2020 / Read More
What we are reading this week
Google is introducing new tools for newsrooms looking to understand their online audiences and how those audiences feed into their overal...
Jul 01, 2020 / Read More
How to use Wikipedia as a journalist — the start of a story
The free, crowd-sourced encyclopedia is likely to be one of the first hits on any basic internet search, but Wikipedia can be a powerful ...
Jun 25, 2020 / Read More
Taking stock of covid-19’s impact on media outlets in sub-Saharan Africa
There has been an insurmountable number of losses and fundamental changes in newsrooms across Africa and the rest of the world. The covid...
Jun 25, 2020 / Read More
Opportunities for African journalists with deadlines in July
The Wits Justice Project (WJP) is inviting journalists to submit proposals for reporting grants of up to ZAR25 000 for in-depth investiga...
Jun 24, 2020 / Read More
What we are reading in our newsroom
Janine Jackson writes that an important conversation needs to be had regarding decreasing the high levels of white supremacy in the news ...
Jun 23, 2020 / Read More
Digital News Report 2020: Mis- and disinformation — a thorn for media in Africa
The recently released Digital News Report 2020, by the Reuters Institute includes early insights on the effect of the covid-19 pandemic o...
Jun 17, 2020 / Read More
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