Local Journalism Project Case Study: Daily Dispatch   The backstory: Founded in 1872, the Daily Dispatch became the first penny daily newspaper published in the Eastern Cape in 1898, and has been an advocate for fair treatment of all South Africans ever since. Due to the South African media’s reliability on the declining advertisement model, […]

Local Journalism Project Case Study: 263Chat.com   The backstory: Launched in 2012, originally as a Twitter handle and hashtag, 263Chat is now a daily e-paper in Zimbabwe. 263Chat has over 200 WhatsApp groups that function as the primary distributor of its daily e-paper in PDF format to 50,000 Zimbabweans. The media organization also distributes news […]

This story is part of IPI’s Local Journalism Project. Read more here. Scrolling through the news on a mobile phone might be taken for granted in some parts of the world, but in many parts of Africa, it’s a luxury. South Africa’s mobile data rates are among the most expensive in the world, and without […]

The IPI global network today expressed grave concern over growing censorship in Thailand after the country’s telecommunications regulator warned the media against covering ongoing pro-democracy protests. Late last month, the Thai National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) “invited” media representatives to a meeting in which the NBTC made a series of demands, which were cloaked […]