Local Journalism Project Case Study: Scrolla (South Africa)   The backstory: Scrolla was founded in 2019 by Mungo Soggot, an entrepreneur and former investigative journalist, along with a team of other seasoned South African journalists including Phillip van Niekerk, Everson Luhanga, Zukile Majova, and Toby Shapshak. Soggot noticed that many South African publications catered to […]

Local Journalism Project Case Study: Red/Acción (Argentina)   The backstory: After a fundraising drive that collected $1.5 million in just two months, former La Nación Editor-in-Chief Chani Guyot launched Red/Acción in April 2018. He and his team detected a void in Argentina’s local media landscape. Audiences seemed to be suffering from media fatigue or avoiding […]

Local Journalism Project Case Study: Rayon (Ukraine)   The backstory: In 2015, when the owner of the Family and Home media holding, Ivan Korsak, retired, his son Viktor decided to pivot to invest in new media. The family-owned company launched Rayon.in.ua and leveraged the spread of 3G connectivity to restructure the traditional print newspaper, magazine, […]

Local Journalism Project Case Study: Local Call (Israel/Palestine)   The backstory: Launched in 2014 by sister news site +972 Magazine, Local Call is a Hebrew-language news site that advances citizen journalism in Israel and Palestine and works to end the occupation of Palestine. The site was co-founded and is co-published by Just Vision, a nonprofit […]