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- Digital media entrepreneurs are producing ground-breaking journalism and achieving a significant impact on their societies
- African media entrepreneurs achieved civic engagement, criminal investigations, and changes in the law through their articles
- The researchers found that more than 85% of the media interviewed had contributed to significant political and societal changes
A new report has revealed that digital media entrepreneurs are producing ground-breaking journalism and achieving a significant impact on their societies, despite often tiny budgets and constant online threats and attacks.
The Inflection Point International report indicates that more than 85% of the media interviewed had contributed to significant political and societal changes.
SembraMedia, a non-profit that supports entrepreneurial journalists, published the report in partnership with the global philanthropic organisation Luminate.
It carried out more than 200 international interviews and interviewed 49 independent digital native media organisations in African countries, namely: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
Civic engagement
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John-Allan Namu is a daring man. Few people have encountered live bullets, seen the real face of war, tracked down drug lords, had threats made on their lives, and still kept at it. Journalism is not for the faint hearted, and it not just a profession for John-Allan, it is a calling.
The investigative journalist doubles up as the CEO of Africa Uncensored, an investigative and in-depth journalism production house in Nairobi, Kenya.
He has bagged numerous awards, key among them the coveted CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Award in 2009. Last year Africa Uncensored secured a nomination at the international One World Media Awards.
He is best known for his partnership with Mohammed Ali on Jicho Pevu and Inside Story, a series on KTN that went behind the scenes to uncover stories of corruption and impunity in Kenya.
It is the drive to keep telling their stories …