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The Code For Africa Bi weekly newsletter
>Purpose of the Weekly Newsletter
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To be Africa’s premier “go to” newsletter for innovation in digital journalism / civic tech
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To flag trends, noteworthy projects / resources / initiatives / pioneers
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To increase global visibility and leverage “eyeballs” to CfA main network partner(s)
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To share info on African opportunities & events for network members.
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To chronicle HH activities, events, learnings
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To highlight Academy projects and activities.
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To add value to local level partnerships/sponsorships.
>Format / style
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Clean / minimalist visual design
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Concise text / content
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Conversational / irreverent tone
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Formatting Benchmarks
>Target Audience:
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Hacks/Hackers Communities: Journalists, Techies
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Story Lab Academy : j-schools, newsrooms,
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Code For Africa: partners (including donors)
>Newsletter sections:
We are tracking and updating the different sections content here. **>Main Feature section: **
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Highlights noteworthy projects / resources / initiatives / pioneers from the network/
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Impact stories **>Academy Project Activities: **
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Story Lab Academy: Rewired newsrooms
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Storysprints
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MOOC testimonial or projects
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JSchool projects
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Projects from Academy / innovateAFRICA/impactAFRICA grantees
>Hacks/Hackers:
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Meetups (#HHNBO, #HHDAR, #HHLOS, etc.)
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Upcoming Events
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Sign up to your local H/H community.
>Opportunities & Events:
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Pick this from the #jobsandopportunities Slack channel
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Partner stories, highlights
>Knowledge Section:
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Data Journalism benchmark stories from - Africa E.g the Naija Data Ladies FGM audio story
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Stories worth reading: A section on the new journalism techniques/ tools that CfA is seeding:
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Viral News: social video + Buzzfeed approaches
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Geo-journalism: Mapping & Satellite
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Automated Journalism: bots & conversational AI
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Graphic (illustrated / animated) journalism
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Data visualisation
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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
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Robot journalism - drone, sensor + satellite imagery (to track wars and attacks etc)
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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
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Investigative Technologies - Aleph, ANCIR stuff
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Immersive journalism - 360 journalism
>Feature a tool To Champion existing CfA tools.
>Call to action
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Register for the StoryLab Academy
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Connect with the CfA *70000+ community of innovators, digital creatives, journalists and technologists on Slack.
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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.
- Curation of content on slack channels & the web
- First newsletter draft
- Submission for editing
- Sign-off by CfA ex-co
- The newsletter is sent out.