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Ventureburn • 11 Sep 2012

40 African news innovators you need to know about

By Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter

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Google has just announced the finalists in its African News Challenge, a project aimed at strengthening and transforming African news media.

Forty digital journalism projects have been shortlisted as finalists from a pool of 513 applicants. The applications screened by a technical review panel that evaluated which projects have the best potential for strengthening and transforming African news media.

Short-listed finalists include proposals to improve data-driven investigative journalism and the security of journalists or their sources, as well as improve audience engagement, mobile news distribution, data visualization, new revenue models and workflow systems.

Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter

New GM for Burn Media division, incorporating Memeburn

News • 12 Sep 2012

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