Case Study: ABO Local Media Development Agency, Ukraine   The backstory: ABO launched after Ukraine passed a 2015 law on the “destatization” – the removal of state influence – as part of a reform of state and municipal media. Before this reform, much of Ukrainian local media was state-funded, which undermined their independence. The goal […]

Local Journalism Project Case Study: El Surtidor (Paraguay)   The backstory: El Surtidor (also called El Surti) was born in 2016 as a Facebook page founded by a group of journalists and designers to become a benchmark for visual journalism in Latin America. Paraguay has one of the most unequal land distributions in the world, which […]

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 […]