To fix the existential crisis of media viability and the rapidly changing consumer media habits across Africa.
S2 · Intervention 2 of 6
Incubating Media Innovations.
The MCI Media Hub as a co-working space and capacity-strengthening centre.
Our approach
How Innovation works.
A structured space where young media entrepreneurs build and test products, formats, and revenue models — so journalism itself has a viable future, not just viable stories.
Africa's newsrooms will only survive if innovation, business modelling, and community trust are built into the same room — not bolted on after the fact.
Our Media Viability Approach combines a co-working space (MCI Media Hub), a community of innovators, capacity strengthening for newsrooms, and the MCI SDGs Media Van as a convening community for media viability.
On the ground
Programs under S2.
Everything we run under Incubating Media Innovations, filed in three folders. Open one to see what is inside.
Ongoing Projects
Projects
MCI Media Hub
Co-working space, incubator, and capacity-building hub for African newsrooms and media startups.
MCI Radio
Online radio broadcasting community-driven programming by young journalists.
Minority Africa
A continent-wide newsroom amplifying minority and under-served communities across Africa.
Debunk Media Initiative
A pan-African fact-checking initiative debunking viral falsehoods with a network of partner newsrooms.
CURIO
Explanatory journalism on development topics for young audiences.
The Citizen Report
Citizen journalism empowering community reporters with mobile-first approaches.
