@Verdade

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The free newspaper @Verdade is mostly of the male and female drivers of Txopelas distributed

@Verdade , mostly just A Verdade or Verdade (port . [The] truth) is a Mozambican , Portuguese-speaking , free weekly newspaper . The newspaper was originally based in Maputo , but moved to Nampula in mid-2014 . Verdade, which is now the most widely read newspaper in Mozambique, was created in 2008 on the initiative of Erik Charas, who is still the head of the newspaper to this day.

The newspaper is best known for its grassroots journalism ; citizens can use various communication channels to send news to the editorial staff, which they then include in their newspaper.

Content

The newspaper is considered to be particularly critical of the government, but, according to founder Charas, sees itself as “non-political” and primarily deals with “issues of the citizens”. A special feature of the newspaper, which has a weekly circulation of around 25,000 and according to its own estimates 400,000 readers, is, in addition to free distribution, a strong focus on the Internet and participation of the readership. Citizens can get in touch in various ways, including a. WhatsApp , SMS , Twitter , Facebook , contact the newspaper and share your observations (“Cidadão repórter”, Portuguese for “citizen journalist”). According to founder Charas, 35 percent of the news from the editorial team was based on citizen news and at the same time represented the newspaper's "secret of success".

In addition to the Cidadão repórter , the sexual counseling ( Pergunte a Tina , Portuguese for “Ask Tina”), comparable to the Dr. Summer team of the German youth magazine Bravo is a specialty. During the consultation, a focus is placed on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases - around 11 percent of the Mozambican population are infected with HIV .

Another part of the newspaper are the so-called "Xiconhoca", in which actions or sayings by politicians, the police and companies are commented on and criticized on a weekly basis. Readers can vote for the "Xiconhoca of the week" every week.

The newspaper is primarily financed through advertisements and also has a wide range of online services in Portuguese and English. Distributed the newspaper in front of the editorial offices and the numerous so-called. Txopelas , widespread in Mozambique auto rickshaws .

development

The newspaper was created in August 2008 on the initiative of Erikas Charas. Verdade 's first election coverage was for the 2009 parliamentary and presidential elections . According to a study by Jenny C. Aker, Paul Collier and Pedro C. Vicente, the distribution of the free newspaper is said to have increased voter turnout by ten percent.

The editorial team has been in partnership with the blogger network Global Voices since 2011 . Since the end of 2013, the editorial team has also had a partnership with the online service of Deutsche Welle (or the editorial team for Portuguese-speaking Africa ). Since then, Verdade articles can also be found in the online offer of Deutsche Welle.

In 2014, the editorial staff, which previously had a branch office in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula , completely moved there. Editor-in-chief Adérito Caldeira justified the move with "news saturation" within the capital Maputo and a much greater need for news in northern Mozambique, which is predicted to experience strong economic development in the next few years due to the large natural resources.

While the newspaper was still particularly active in reporting in the 2013 local elections , the editorial team announced in 2014 that it did not have enough finances to cover the 2014 parliamentary and presidential elections .

Award

In 2012 the editors received the “African Media Prize Expo 2015” for their “outstanding contribution to the development of Mozambican civil society”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Nádia Issufo: Jornal moçambicano "A Verdade" justifica mudança da capital para Nampula. Deutsche Welle, June 11, 2014, accessed March 23, 2015 (Portuguese).
  2. ^ A b c Roberto Valussi: A Mozambican Newspaper With a Difference. In: InPEC Magazine. August 27, 2013, accessed March 23, 2015 .
  3. a b c d Saif Khalid: In conversation with Mozambican activist. Al-Jazeera, April 26, 2011, accessed March 23, 2015 .
  4. a b c Martina Dietz: @Verdade and citizen journalism in Mozambique: complicity in the sign of love. In: Berliner Gazette. November 20, 2013, accessed March 23, 2015 .
  5. Richard M Kavuma: Mozambique's free newspaper Becomes a tool for social transformation. In: The Guardian. June 1, 2011, accessed March 23, 2015 .
  6. ^ Thembi Mutch: Mozambique: Citizen Journalists as Enlighteners - New Media Promote Freedom of Information. IPS daily service, July 1, 2013, accessed on March 23, 2015 (via schattenblick.de).
  7. Nádia Issufo: "Cidadão Reporter" é o segredo do sucesso do jornal Mocambicano @Verdade. Deutsche Welle, June 30, 2014, accessed March 23, 2015 (Portuguese).
  8. ^ HIV / AIDS in Mozambique. (No longer available online.) World Health Organization, archived from the original on March 17, 2015 ; accessed on March 23, 2015 (English).
  9. Xiconhoca means something like "devious, insidious person " in Mozambican Portuguese. The word is a creation of FRELIMO and in the propaganda parlance denoted "enemies of the people". The word is made up of “xico” and “nhoca”: Xico-feio (ugly boy) was a common name in FRELIMO propaganda for informers and spies of the Portuguese secret police PIDE / DGS . “Nhoca” is a common word in most Mozambican local languages ​​for a cobra (see also O que é Xiconhoca? On macua.blogs.com).
  10. Quem é o Xiconhoca da semana? In: A Verdade. August 30, 2012, accessed March 23, 2015 (Portuguese).
  11. Jenny C. Aker, Paul Collier, Pedro C. Vicente: Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers during an Election in Mozambique. (PDF) May 2013, accessed on March 23, 2015 (English).
  12. ^ Paula Goés: Mozambique: Global Voices and @Verdade Newspaper. In: Global Voices. March 4, 2011, accessed March 23, 2015 .
  13. Johannes Beck: Nova parceria da DW África com jornal @Verdade de Moçambique. Deutsche Welle, October 7, 2013, accessed on March 23, 2015 (Portuguese).
  14. Lusa: "Cidadãos repórteres" vão monitorizar próximo ciclo eleitoral moçambicano (C / VÍDEO). (No longer available online.) Sapo.mz, August 1, 2013, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 23, 2015 (Portuguese).
  15. Joshua Massarenti: Amadou Ba (CEO of AMI), IPS Africa and @verdade awarded by Expo 2015 and Afronline. In: afronline.org. October 13, 2012, accessed March 23, 2015 .