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Quartz: App Changing Tanzania's News

Posted November 30, 2015
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From Quartz:

“After M-pesa for mobile money, why not have M-Paper for mobile papers?” Edwin Bruno, chief executive officer of Smart Codes, the digital agency behind the app, told Quartz.

While print media in the West is feeling the pressure of having to compete for readers and ad revenue from all sorts of online sources, in Africa the situation is slightly different. People here still trust newspapers more than online platforms to deliver the news.

 

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