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“Excellence in Independent Journalism” Project in Liberia

“New Narratives is making a significant and meaningful contribution to the overall quantity and quality of independent journalism in Liberia by producing and diffusing high-quality reporting through media partners and other outlets. The evaluation found good evidence that many stories set the news agenda, strengthen the quality of public debate and have
sometimes led to concrete responses from public authorities. Stories and the framing of issues by New Narratives are often picked up by other media in their own reporting.”…

Solutions For Media Viability in Fragile Democracies: A New Project in Liberia Shows How AI and Digital Tools Can Bring New Revenue Sources to Independent Newsrooms

A groundbreaking pilot project funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, shows that AI and other new digital tools present promising new options for financial independence in West Africa’s leading newsrooms….

New Narratives Kicks of Phase Two of Groundbreaking Air Pollution and Climate Change Journalism Project in Ghana

New Narratives kicked off phase two of our Clean Air Reporting Project in August. The project will continue its successful partnership with Joy News, one of the country’s leading news organizations. Joy reporter Michael Asharley will be Joy’s New Narratives air pollution/climate change beat reporter. Michael will also host the Joy/New Narratives weekly radio program…

NN Journalist Albert Oppong-Ansah Wins Prestigious Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Journalism

New Narratives is proud to share that our reporter Albert Oppong-Ansah, editor with Ghana News Agency, has won the prestigious Eric and Wendy Schmidt Prize for Excellence in Science Journalism. Albert won the award for three stories that he did with New Narratives as part of our groundbreaking clean air reporting project with support from…

Liberia: As Rural Healthcare Struggles, One Lofa Entrepreneur Steps Up to Bridge the Gap

This story was a collaboration with New Narratives as part of the “Investigating Liberia” project. The Swedish Embassy provided funding, but the founder had no say in the story’s content….

James Papy Kwabo Jr. & Peter Kollie
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Liberia: New Report Recommends Holistic Approach to Drug Crisis; Calls for Joint Taskforce Against Drug Trafficking In The Mano River Area

By Nemenlah Cyrus Harmon with New Narratives Liberia is facing a full-blown drug crisis according to a new report that finds the reasons for the crisis are rooted in poverty, failures of post war justice, unemployment and a growing regional drug trade. The report, the first to look at the reasons for the growing problem,…

Nemenlah Cyrus Harmon
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: Economy Deeply Hit by Aid Cuts as Jobs Are Lost and Local Businesses See Huge Drop in Income

By Anthony Stephens and Allison Hunter with New Narratives Summary: Caroline Armah is exactly the sort of person the development world has tried to champion. The 33-year-old entrepreneur is building a business solving one of the most fundamental problems Liberia faces: affordable, childhood nutrition. Armah’s business Calaw Foodssells a nutritional supplement made of finely ground…

Anthony Stephens and Allison Hunter
Front Page Africa

Building Financial Independence at West Africa’s Newsrooms

New Narratives, with support from the Swedish government, has partnered with InOldNews, a consultancy led by Manon Verchot and Sanshey Biswas, to transform our news partners’ businesses to take advantage of new sources of independent revenue….

No Christmas Cheer For Growing Number of Liberians in Poverty

By Fatu Kamara with New Narratives TODEE DISTRICT, Montserrado County – For Christian Liberians Christmas is normally a period of smiles, joy and exchange of gifts with friends and loved ones. But as more Liberians fall below the poverty line, for many, that is not their experience this year. This year’s Christmas has brought more…

Fatu kamara
Front Page Africa

Children Forced Out of School and into Labor as Poverty Tightens Grip on Rural Liberia

By Joseph Titus Yekeryan with New Narratives SALALA, Bong County- The midday sun beats down here as 10-year-old Nulee runs from one vehicle to another with plastic sachets of cold-water urging passengers to buy. “Cold water, cold water here! Make your chest cold!” he calls out in a high-pitched voice. His childhood, once filled with…

Joseph Titus Yekeryan
Front Page Africa

Flood Victims Angry as Disaster Agency Aid Vanishes and No Help Arrives Six Months After Floods

By Eric Opa Doue with New Narratives ITI, River Cess – The horizon is gray and murky here and in neighboring Glanyah, two communities battered by the wrath of nature. Mohammed Keita, sits on an old sponge mattress gifted him by a neighbor, in the ruins of his former home that was destroyed by flooding…

Eric Opa Doue
Front Page Africa

Liberia: Deforestation is Leaving Rural Dwellers More Vulnerable to Increasingly Devastating Windstorms, But Experts Say There Are No Quick Fixes

By Siaway T. Miapue- [email protected] with New Narratives Ma Annie Quiyea points to a space that used to be her home, – Photo: Siaway T. Miapue/New Narratives BEATUO, Nimba County – Annie Quiyea sits uncomfortably on a bench in front of the cement slab that used to be the foundation of her home here…

Siaway T. Miapue
Front page Africa

Liberia: Warlord Claims War Crimes Court Will “Dismantle” Peace as Victims Take Center Stage at Peace Commemorations

As Liberia marks 21 years of peace, victims demand justice through war crimes courts. Former warlords resist, warning of instability, while international backers and activists call for accountability, healing, and reform….

Anthony Stephens
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: Crisis in Rural Education Continues to End Children’s Dreams

In rural Liberia, Nancy Howard’s dream of journalism faded after 9th grade. With no local school, she turned to farming—now 25, a mother of three, working her family’s sugarcane field….

Siaway T. Mapue
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: 10 dead, 30 missing, No Excavator to Conduct Rescue Search as Survivors Say Mines Ministry Forced Them into Abandoned Mine

Ten are confirmed dead, over thirty missing, and survivors blame local authorities for forcing miners into a dangerous pit. Rescue efforts stall as promised excavators fail to arrive amid growing outrage….

Eric Opa Doue
FrontPage Africa

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