Freelance contributor
Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist based in the UK. She has written for the Guardian, BBC, The Week and more. She is a visiting lecturer in online journalism at City, University of London, and works as an audience strategy consultant for newsrooms. You can find her work here.
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How an Asian business site attracted 30,000 subscribers by publishing one story a day
“Choosing what not to do is as important as choosing what to do”, says 'The Ken''s co-founder and CEO Rohin Dharmakumar.
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Así han apostado por membresías los medios de Iberoamérica y esto han aprendido
Medios de Colombia, Brasil y México han impulsado este modelo durante la crisis del coronavirus. Aquí algunos de sus aprendizajes.
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How mission-driven news sites are betting on reader revenue in Latin America
News outlets in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico share what they’ve learned from building their membership models in the midst of a pandemic.
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This fact-checked database helps journalists track how Nigeria tackles maternal mortality
“We knew this was an endemic problem but a lot of reporting stopped there,” says journalist Ashley Okwuosa, co-founder of Maternal Figures
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How an experienced team of editors trains the next Mexican investigative journalists
“We become their team. We help them narrow down their story and get it published," says Alejandra Xanic, General Editor of Quinto Elemento.
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How a group of Nigerian journalists are digitising thousands of old newspapers
“This archive would mean context and not writing in a vacuum,” says Fu’ad Lawal, who’s leading the race to bring 18,627 days of print online
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“The future of journalism is small, intimate and personal”
Tanmoy Goswami was the world’s first sanity correspondent. Now he’s creating a platform to highlight mental health issues in the Global South.
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From fact-checking to women’s rights: TikTok's promising rise in the Global South
Global news agency AFP and news publishers in Brazil and Nicaragua are engaging new audiences in the platform, Laura Oliver reports.
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What solutions journalism can bring to the news media in the Global South
Journalists from Egypt, Indonesia, Costa Rica and the Philippines share what with our contributor Laura Oliver they’ve learned from this approach.
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What the COVID-19 pandemic means for freelance journalists in the Global South
The crisis has been especially difficult for independent reporters in countries such Brazil, India, Nigeria or Vietnam, Laura Oliver reports.
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How publishers are engaging new audiences on messaging apps in the Global South
Newspapers and startups from Zimbabwe, Brazil and South Africa are using WhatsApp in innovative ways, Laura Oliver reports.
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How journalism training is changing (and flourishing) in sub-Saharan Africa
Nonprofits and universities are shaping the future of journalism in the continent by focusing on new priorities, Laura Oliver reports.