GroundUp (news agency)

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GroundUp
South African news that matters
GroundUp Logo used since 2016
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Online newspaper
EditorNathan Geffen
Deputy editorBarbara October
Associate editor Alide Dasnois
Brent Meersman
Founded2012
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters Cape Town, South Africa
Country South Africa
Website www.groundup.org.za

GroundUp is a South African-based not-for-profit news agency. It publishes most content related to education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories under a creative commons license and is known for its focus on public interest stories within vulnerable communities [1] [‡ 1] [2] with a "bottom-up" style of reporting. [3] Their content is regularly reprinted and featured in other South African news publications such as the Daily Maverick , News24, and Mail & Guardian . [2]

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History

GroundUp started in April 2012 as a joint project of Community Media Trust and the University of Cape Town's Centre for Social Science Research by Nathan Geffen, a computer scientist, researcher and former Treatment Action Campaign member. [2]

Reporting

The publication is known for exposing corruption within the South African National Lottery scheme. [4] For this investigation, GroundUp editor Nathan Geffen and journalist Raymond Joseph were joint winners of the 2021 South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) Nat Nakasa award for courageous community journalism. [5] Joseph went on to win the Vodacom Journalist of the Year [‡ 2] and Taco Kuiper awards. [6]

In 2023, GroundUp reporters Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn investigated and exposed the prison escape of convicted rapist Thabo Bester, for which they were received the Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity and the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award in 2023.

References

Primary sources

These sources are published by GroundUp, and are indicated in this article by a double dagger (‡):

  1. ↑ "About GroundUp | GroundUp". GroundUp News. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  2. ↑ Staff, GroundUp (25 November 2022). "GroundUp's Raymond Joseph wins journalist of the year award for exposing Lottery corruption". GroundUp News. Retrieved 7 March 2024.

Secondary sources

  1. ↑ "Claude Leon Foundation - GroundUp". www.leonfoundation.co.za. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Geffen, Nathan (September 2015). "Why GroundUp?". Rhodes Journalism Review. 2015 (35): 76–80.
  3. ↑ Chuma, Wallace (2016). "Between "Bottom-Up" Journalism and Social Activism in Unequal Societies: The Case of Ground Up in South Africa". In Mutsvairo, Bruce (ed.). Between "Bottom-Up" Journalism and Social Activism in Unequal Societies: The Case of GroundUp in South Africa. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 202–214. doi:10.1057/9781137554505_13. ISBN   9781137554505.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ Gerber, Jan. "National Lotteries Commission: Call to axe board amid corruption claims". News24. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  5. ↑ "NAT NAKASA AWARD WINNERS 2021 ANNOUNCED: Celebrating 23 years of courageous and brave journalism". SANEF | Protecting Media Freedom. 15 August 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "2023-04 - Ray Joseph and Jeff Wicks jointly win the 2022 Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism - Wits University". www.wits.ac.za. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
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