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Sipho Kings

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Publisher and co-founder, The Continent newspaper - A quality weekly African paper straight to your device.

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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
England's right wing print newspapers were doing disinformation long before the platforms came along. A key example of why ownership matters - and how corrupting elites can wield media to their own ends. Talk about a country in need of media ethics and standards.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Exciting thing alert - The next pilot of The Friday Paper comes out this very Friday, 7 November. To get your hands on some quality South African journalism here's the link tally.so/r/mKbdeD
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Welcome to The Friday Paper.
Subscribe - at no cost, and with no passwords - to South Africa's newest national newspaper.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Chatted to @reutersinstitute.bsky.social about why we launched a new newspaper, @thefridaypaper.bsky.social - and how our learnings from The Continent have created the space for us to do this.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Given the corruption in the West, it’s wild how people in its institutions can talk about that corruption without using the word corruption. Makes your brain want to tear in half. One thing I love about South Africa is that people ain’t afraid to call a spade a spade.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
So many conversations are universal. Chats about people doing humans things. Mundane chats. Big picture chats. We have more in common than the algorithms and power-grabbers would like us to think.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Chatbots out there taking over a role white men used to monopolise. Via www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... @columjournreview.bsky.social
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Robots and AI would probably be cool if they didn’t arrive in a world built to enrich billionaires.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
What I don’t understand about Americans is that they keep making jerky when Biltong exists.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Our @thecontinent.org newspaper cover from June 2020. The more things change the ...
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 06/03/2025
We are just shy of our goal of 30 000 subscribers - 70 people to be exact. Top shelf journalism about Africa from African reporters, photographers, illustrators and editors is right here. For free. Sign up, or pass it on to someone who’d appreciate it.
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Subscribing to quality African journalism is easy and free.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Newspapers need more illustrations, photographs and cartoons.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Meet this moment with more quality journalism.
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 07/02/2025
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 189 of The Continent. M23 fighters are marching on to take a second city in the DRC. The Tanzanian president is hosting a leader’s conference to address the crisis. But Tanzania is not a disinterested party. Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
The cover of issue 189 of The Continent is illustrated by cartoonist Gado. It's a send-up of the infamous Berlin Conference of 1884 which carved Africa amongst thee European powers. Instead of Africa being carved up however, it's the Democratic Republic of Congo being carved up amongst the leaders from the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) who are meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. At the head of the table is Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan. They are meeting to discuss the conflict between the DRC government and Rwandan-backed M23 soldiers.
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 05/02/2025
After DeepSeek, a Chinese AI model, drove down the stock prices of Silicon Valley AI companies, they accused it of being all the things they are. OpenAI says DeepSeek devs stole its work. Critics say it has its makers’ biases and won’t answer pesky questions about Tibet. In other words: it is AI.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Yet another example of why news dies when it relies on the algorithms of others to get to people - Meta doesn’t care about public interest www.bbc.com/news/article...
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How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories
Palestinian news outlets have seen a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023.
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 17/12/2024
All Protocol Observed. It’s your turn to take the mic: please respond to our survey on how we fared in 2024. This helps us to improve the newspaper. It also helps us to make the case for the funding that allows us to keep doing quality journalism.
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The Continent Reader Survey 2024
All protocol observed. Our goal is for The Continent to be the most important source of African news for anyone, anywhere. To get there, we need your help and we want to learn from you. When we sta...
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
At its best, journalism tells us a bit more about the world around us, and the people we share it with. We need more empathy. This is my favourite response so far to our @thecontinent.org Big Annual Survey™. And I love that someone shared it with us.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Our era will be remembered in the weight of tote bags left behind.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The @thecontinent.org’s growth to 23,000 subscribers has been entirely organic. Based on our readers sharing the newspaper. No algorithms. No search engine gaming. If you’re a reader, we want to know how we can improve. Please do our survey.
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Beverly Ochieng @beverlyochieng.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Chad and Senegal are the latest Francophone African countries to re-align their relationship with France, underscoring how injustices by former colonial governments serve as a potent political force. My latest in @thecontinent.org with many thanks to @simonallison.bsky.social and @namlyd.bsky.social
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our @thecontinent.org newsroom has been around for nearly five years. We've worker remotely that entire time, with staff in six countries. That's hard. Really hard. It's also a testament to hiring great people (like our illustrator Wynona) and giving them space to do their thing.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We’ll be reading newspapers on Mars.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Made my first pumpkin thing. Admittedly, this was a while ago. But something something slow news.
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Sameer Padania @sdp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
People of Bluesky - @thecontinent.bsky.social is your thing: a *finishable* weekly English-language paper, readable in Signal/WhatsApp, full of crisp, excellent #journalism from across #Africa. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Tomi Oladipo @tomioladipo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I don't know how else to put it but I love the way The Continent is written with the reader in mind.
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Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Are you looking for quality African journalism, and you miss the curation that comes from weekly newspapers? We got you. Subscribe and get a free newspaper each week. It’s built to look great on the device you read on. And sometimes we put mermaids on the cover.
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