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| Introducing Amandla NewsLink: A resource for alternative journalism |
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| Written by Amanlda! Alternative Media (July - September) 2010 |
| Monday, 12 July 2010 10:39 |
 The Amandla NewsLink presents breaking news from over 50 publications on one website. This is a resource for alternative media producers to compare commercial and alternative news angles and compile the editorial and programme that serves their community.
Community media is not a local imitation of larger commercial media that compliments the agenda of commercial media with local stories and sources. Community media offers a platform to poor and marginalized communities. Our programming and editorial is shaped by the information and expression needs of those who remain exploited and excluded in our society.
Yet producing alternative media requires resources that many community media projects do not have. For example community radios have to compile hourly news bulletins and with small and often inexperienced news teams. As a result they too often rely on the commercial media for their news. The resulting irony is that a news editor in rural Limpopo offers rural poor front-page news from Cape Town and Durban.
This Limpopo news editor does not subscribe to the Cape Times and The Mercury. She uses her cell phone to access news from www.iol.co.za. So why not access news from a website that provides an alternative stream of breaking news?
Amandla! NewsLink provides breaking news and opinion from over 50 leading South African and international commercial and alternative media sources.
Commercial and alternative news feeds are presented along side each other. This enables community journalists to compare editorial agendas and to compile the editorial you think will best serve the needs of your communities.
The Amandla! NewsLink includes breaking stories form the following commercial and alternative media sources:
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