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Type of site | Online newspaper |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| URL | malawi24.com |
| Launched | 2013 |
Malawi24 (stylized as malawi24) is an online Malawi news publication formed in 2013 as an online and social media news outlet. Its website, malawi24.com, was officially launched on 24 January 2014, the day the publication published its first stories.
Type
Malawi24 is a news website that publishes mainly Malawi-focused coverage of nationwide news largely on politics, sports and entertainment with very rare coverage of world news. It joined other online news websites that include Nyasa Times, Maravi Post, Malawi Voice and Zodiak Online.
It is currently edited and managed by Joseph Dumbula.
Founders
Malawi24 was co-founded by Pearson Nkhoma and Kelvin Sulugwe who later agreed to forfeit their respective shares for individual projects. Nkhoma left to concentrate on his PhD at Durham University while Sulugwe took up a full time job as Prophet Shepherd Bushiri's publicist.[1].
Reach
Malawi24 is one of the two most followed news publication in Malawi alongside Nyasa Times. An aggregation by Socialbakers shows that it has the the largest following on Facebook among all news and media publication in Malawi[2], third after Joyce Banda and Prophet Shepherd Bushiri. Alexa aggregation shows that it is the second most read and visited news website in Malawi after Nyasa Times. The aggregation shows that, like Nyasa Times, 75 percent of its readers are from Malawi followed by South Africa with about 10% of the visitors.
In addition, Malawi24 articles have been cited and referenced by News24, BBC, The New York Times, WSJ and Fusion among other international news outlets[3] [4].
Affiliation
Malawi24 is affiliated with Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) - Malawi Chapter, a media watch-dog organisation across Southern Africa. It is also accredited by the Media Council of Malawi. It is currently one of the Malawi news sources aggregated by Google News and AllAfrica.
Facebook Partnership
In 2015, the publication partnered with Facebook for the Free Basics initiative to enable people in Malawi to have free access to news and current affairs without being charged data.
Reporting on Corruption
With strict censorship laws in Malawi, Malawi24 was one of the online publications that offered a comprehensive reporting on public abuse including the Cashgate scandal, a widespread corruption involving senior politicians and government officials that led to the misappropriation of over 580 billion Malawian kwacha of public funds[5]. Being independent without any revenue from government advertisement, the publication managed to publish a leaked audit analysis report compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Traditional media hugely rely on government advertisement in Malawi for revenue.
Campaign against Albino killings
In 2016, the publication run a week long campaign to sensitize Malawians on the need to curb attacks against people with albinism in the country[6]. The campaign followed a warning by Ikponwosa Ero, the UN Independent Expert on the rights of persons with albinism that the atrocities faced by persons with albinism in Malawi had rendered them “an endangered people group facing a risk of systemic extinction over time if nothing [was] done”[7][8]. During the course of the campaign, all stories the Malawi24 published used the same feature image condemned the attacks and harassment on people with albinism while urging its readers to report any attack albinos.
Controversy
In 2015, Médecins Sans Frontières in Malawi threatened Malawi24 with legal action after publishing an article citing a BBC report that claimed HIV infection rates had doubled in Malawi[9]. In it's report, BBC had used data provided by MSF for areas where circumcision was also being promoted as a strategy for curbing HIV infection. BBC edited it's version after a public outcry on its Facebook page after the Malawi24 report. The threat for legal action did not materialize despite the publication not retracting the story as MSF had demanded.
External Links
References
- ^ "Malawi: Scholar Questions Zodiak Online Misa-Malawi Award - Activist Praises Times As 'Deserved' Media Champions". AllAfrica. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ "Malawi Facebook page statistics". SocialBakers. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ BBC's Africa Highlights (12 January 2016). "Malawi's celebrated woman freedom fighter dies". Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ ""Real men" band together to end gender-based violence in Malawi". NY Times' Women in the World. 21 December 2015.
- ^ Strasser, Peter G. (2016). "An Anti-Corruption Bureau's Inexorable Endeavor: A Study of Malawi's Cashgate Scandal". Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online. 73: 303-303.
- ^ "Malawi24 campaigns against albino attacks" (PDF). No. 334. The ASEA Daily News & Resources (Africa Southeast Area). 19 May 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ "In Malawi, people with albinism face 'total extinction'– UN rights expert". UN News Centre. UN. 29 April 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ "People with albinism in Malawi face 'total extinction' - UN". BBC. 29 April 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ "Malawi: Circumcision Disaster - Malawi HIV Infection Rate Doubles". AllAfrica. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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