Local Focus goes to under-reported areas and delivers quality stories directly to your WhatsApp and podcast feed. Our on-the-ground reporter Cliff Shiko has years of experience exploring Alexandra in Johannesburg, holding the authorities to account and giving engaging analysis. Here, in a podcast brought to you by Volume and Alex FM, you get to hear pure Cliff as he presents exciting scoops, tells stories of how he dodged (and got hit) by cops’ bullets and interviews the people who matter. The show will be released as a WhatsApp voice note—a groundbreaking new audio format being pioneered by Volume - and as a regular podcast. It will be presented every two weeks by Cliff Shiko. Produced by Volume and Alex FM.
In this special episode we gather WhatsApp voice notes from five newsrooms from across the country and ask them to reflect on what 2020 has done for t...
For this episode we are with Hashtag Our Stories, a start-up that has gathered together a global network of storytellers, trained them to use their mo...
In this episode we get to know the journalists at Viewfinder who are investigating the police during COVID-19. In particular, we look at one story fro...
In South Africa, less than 20% of sources quoted in the news are women. Quote This Woman + strives to change that. This week Media Diaries explores wh...
We spend this week with SMWX, an exciting digital platform focused on current affairs content from a youth perspective. We find out how they are evolv...
Scrolla is an exciting, new mobile-first media start-up that reports on important community news and puts it out in manageable chunks. In this episode...
Food for Mzansi is an initiative to introduce South Africans to stories about farming... including how the farms may or may not survive because of COV...
We spend the week with Media Hack Collective, an amazing organisation that creates visualisations, multimedia stories and dashboards with the goal of ...
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 ...
Volume — In this episode Hellen, while covering the march against the death of Samantha Radebe, was shot by the police with a rubber bullet. Local Foc...