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>Purpose of the Weekly Newsletter

  • To be Africa’s premier “go to” newsletter for innovation in digital journalism / civic tech

  • To flag trends, noteworthy projects / resources / initiatives / pioneers

  • To increase global visibility and leverage “eyeballs” to CfA main network partner(s)

  • To share info on African opportunities & events for network members.

  • To chronicle HH activities, events, learnings

  • To highlight Academy projects and activities.

  • To add value to local level partnerships/sponsorships.

>Format / style

  • Clean / minimalist visual design

  • Concise text / content

  • Conversational / irreverent tone

  • Formatting Benchmarks

>Target Audience:

  • Hacks/Hackers Communities: Journalists, Techies

  • Story Lab Academy : j-schools, newsrooms,

  • Code For Africa: partners (including donors)

>Newsletter sections:

We are tracking and updating the different sections content here. **>Main Feature section: **

  • Highlights noteworthy projects / resources / initiatives / pioneers from the network/

  • Impact stories **>Academy Project Activities: **

  • Story Lab Academy: Rewired newsrooms

  • Storysprints

  • MOOC testimonial or projects

  • JSchool projects

  • Projects from Academy / innovateAFRICA/impactAFRICA grantees

>Hacks/Hackers:

  • Meetups (#HHNBO, #HHDAR, #HHLOS, etc.)

  • Upcoming Events

  • Sign up to your local H/H community.

>Opportunities & Events:

  • Pick this from the #jobsandopportunities Slack channel

  • Partner stories, highlights

>Knowledge Section:

  • Data Journalism benchmark stories from - Africa E.g the Naija Data Ladies FGM audio story

  • Stories worth reading: A section on the new journalism techniques/ tools that CfA is seeding:

  • Viral News: social video + Buzzfeed approaches

  • Geo-journalism: Mapping & Satellite

  • Automated Journalism: bots & conversational AI

  • Graphic (illustrated / animated) journalism

  • Data visualisation

  • Test-tube journalism- a journo working with a lab, who tests something physical that produces evidence that leads solution journalism eg. Chockers project by Stellar Murumba

  • Robot journalism - drone, sensor + satellite imagery (to track wars and attacks etc)

  • Graphic journalism - includes graphic novel style journalism (e.g Mark Ellis), graffiti style, data visualizations as wearable data - e.g on Kanga’s / lessos + social video

  • Investigative Technologies - Aleph, ANCIR stuff

  • Immersive journalism - 360 journalism

>Feature a tool To Champion existing CfA tools.

>Call to action

  • Register for the StoryLab Academy

  • Connect with the CfA *70000+ community of innovators, digital creatives, journalists and technologists on Slack.

  • Follow on S/media: CfA Twitter , #StoryLabAcademy HH Facebook ….

>Custom boilerplate and footer Set on Mailchimp

>Publishing cycle/Process The newsletter will be sent out bi-weekly. This trello board helps the newsletter team coordinate content curation and publishing.

  1. Curation of content on slack channels & the web
  2. First newsletter draft
  3. Submission for editing
  4. Sign-off by CfA ex-co
  5. The newsletter is sent out.
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