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Chris Roper is listed as Deputy CEO at Code For Africa at Code For Africa, a company with 55 employees, based in City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at codeforafrica.org and a matched LinkedIn profile for Chris Roper.
Chris Roper previously worked as Deputy CEO at Code For Africa and Co Director at African Network Of Centres For Investigative Reporting (Ancir). Chris Roper holds Ba (Hons), English from University Of Cape Town.
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CHRIS ROPER is senior strategist and deputy CEO for the continent’s largest federation of civic technology and data journalism labs, Code for Africa (CfA).Using insights from building Africa’s largest online news and content portals, Chris shapes CfA’s civic engagement and scaling strategies. He also serves as director for CfA’s forensic data initiative, the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), where he managed the participation of 18 African newsrooms in the Panama Papers transnational investigation, as well as an investigation by 13 newsrooms into worker safety lapses at Australian mines across Africa. From 2015 - 2019, Chris’ role at CfA was underwritten by a Knight International Fellowship, with the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ)Prior to joining CfA, Chris was editor-in-chief of Africa’s first newspaper to establish an internet presence, the Mail & Guardian. He rebuilt the newspaper’s digital offerings, boosting audience engagement and, within a year, facilitating a growth in unique monthly visitors from under a million to over two million. The increased audience reach helped M&G boost the impacts of its investigative reporting, including the Nkandla scandal, which first exposed the extent of State Capture in SA and which was influential in the eventual resignation of President Jacob Zuma.Before M&G, Chris was editor-in-chief of Africa’s largest online publisher, 24.com, where he managed the merger of MWEB and News24 editorial content into the biggest digital content offering in Africa. Chris has taught journalism courses at the Universities of Pretoria and Western Cape, and the Polytechnic of Namibia. Chris has served as a judge on, among others, African Digital Media Awards, the SA Bookmark Digital Awards, the British Council Future of News competition, the NuMedia Plum Awards, and the PICA Awards. He is author of the South African reports of the Reuters Institute Digital News Reports 2019- 2023
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Cape Town Area, South Africa
As deputy CEO for the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism initiative, Code for Africa (CfA), Chris drives the federation’s digital and civic engagement strategies. He also leads CfA's CivicSignal research and analysis team. His responsibilities include working with CfA’s network of partner newsrooms and watchdog NGOs across Africa to.
Cape Town Area, South Africa
As Co-Director of the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), Chris manages the network’s largest transnational collaborations and special projects.This includes managing ANCIR’s global partnerships on its largest investigations to-date, ranging from the DFRLabs / Atlantic Council partnership to unmask the secret botnets —.
Cape Town Area, South Africa
The main focus of the Knight International Fellowship is to strengthen institutional management systems at the continent’s largest data journalism initiative, Code for Africa (CfA).The fellowship focuses on two sets of objectives: first, building internal CfA capacity by establishing a new management team in Cape Town for streamlined coordination of.
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
As M&G’s editor-in-chief, and before that as editor and head of digital, Chris managed the news organisation’s integration of print and digital teams and the development of the data/digital investigative capacities. Impactful stories during Chris’ tenure included extensive coverage of the Nkandla investigation into illegal use of state money to refurbish.
Cape Town Area, South Africa
As editor-in-chief, Chris was responsible for merging the MWEB portal content and technology teams (at the time, SA's biggest site) with News24, Health24 and other 24.com verticals, and creating numerous new content offerings. The creation of 24.com (now Africa’s largest digital content platform) involved totally redesigning the multiple sites, including.
San Francisco
Chris was seconded to MediaZone, Naspers' Video on Demand company in San Francisco, helping to develop the editorial strategy and products that underpinned the subscription models for the range of live-streaming and on-demand offerings.
Chris managed and built the MWEB portal team, which include business development, content production and technology platforms.As portal manager, Chris managed the relationship between MWEB and its subscribers and audience, as well as between MWEB and Media24’s digital and print properties. This including the relationship between News24 and the large MWEB.
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Chris was Portal Manager when Dutch company World Online built and launched its South African ISP and content offerings, as part of the global World Online internet company expansion. World Online was a pioneer in digital content in South Africa, and SA's second biggest ISP. World Online became Vodacom World Online, and then Tiscali World Online. Chris.
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Pius Enywaru
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Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria, Nigeria
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Treesa Kioko
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Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya, Kenya
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Lagos Mainland, Lagos State, Nigeria, Nigeria
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England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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Bukola James
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Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria, Nigeria
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Collins Kahumbi
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Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia
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Chris Roper holds Ba (Hons), English from University Of Cape Town.
Chris Roper is listed with skills including Social Media, Publications, Magazines, Digital Strategy, Content Management, Blogging, Digital Media, and Feature Articles.
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