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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org. Challenges and issues.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

I had the feeling that there was something else that I could be doing with my passion for journalism and my knowledge of international reporting. We have $2 donors out of Zimbabwe and $20,000 donors out of San Francisco. We don't take government or corporate dollars for any of our funding through grants, or anything else.