the day's top 10 · june 3rd

The storyflo daily brief for June 3rd. Here are the 10 most-trending stories from the last day across the open web. First, from Simon Owens' Media Newsletter. How a weekly PDF became one of Africa’s most innovative news products. The Continent is a weekly PDF newspaper that has become one of Africa's most innovative news products. It was launched in April 2020 by Sipho Kings and Simon Allison, who had a deep understanding of the crisis facing legacy media. They had seen advertising dollars flow to tech platforms, news organizations shed thousands of journalists, and publishers become dependent on search engines and social media algorithms. Kings had experienced the collapse of traditional media firsthand, starting his journalism career in 2011 as a climate and environment reporter at a respected South African newspaper. He began to question whether the problem was journalism itself or the way it was being distributed. The answer he and Allison landed on was to package journalism i