Volume Media Diaries: The New Normal Edition

Media Diaries: The New Normal Edition

What happens when our journalists, the people we expect to be out in the world for us, are forced to stay at home? At a time when we vitally need reliable reporting, how are editors managing the COVID-19 crisis?

For each episode we are going to step into a different organisation and explore how they are adapting their content production processes to what has become known as the “New Normal” that Covid-19 has forced us to adjust to.

Produced and hosted by Amina Deka Asma. Brought to you by Volume and the South Africa Media Innovation Program.
Weekly English South Africa News · News Commentary
14 Episodes

S1 E2: Media Hack Collective and the Lockdown

We spend the week with Media Hack Collective, an amazing organisation that creates visualisations, multimedia stories and dashboards with the goal of spreading valuable journalism into the world. They have built a COVID-19 dashboard in partnership with the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism and it has become insanely popular... Produced…
1 Apr 2020 23 min

S1 E1: Health-e News and COVID-19

Health-e News is a formidable health unit based in Johannesburg that is reporting on the frontline of COVID-19 in South Africa. Follow their staff as they come to terms with it.
25 Mar 2020 21 min