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Video: Guy Berger on his Knight cell phone project
4 Jun 2008Guy Berger, head of the School of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, was awarded a $630,000 Knight News Challenge grant for the News is Coming project. As he explains, the aim is to have local news reports disseminated through cellphones to help connect an all-black township in South Africa with the white population living in the urban center.
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(Shot on a Nokia N95)
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