The launch of the service follows feedback from clients across the continent and offers video footage in digital-friendly formats in English and is reportedly available in short edits.
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is extending its African video offering with a mobile-first news video service, Africa Journal. Africa Journal will cover stories of Africa from a local and global perspective, the release stated. The launch of the service follows feedback from clients across the continent and offers video footage in digital-friendly formats in English and is reportedly available in short edits.
Africa Journal will be accessible to broadcasters and digital publishers with a focus on Reuters lifestyle, social, entertainment and sports news, alongside its general news, business and political coverage.
Commenting on the launch, the Editor of Africa Journal, Serena Chaudhry, said: Reuters covers Africa more completely than any other international news agency and, through African Journal, were drawing on our journalistic expertise to offer a fresh way to report African news both in Africa and worldwide. The growth of the African digital mobile audience has been phenomenal, and with the launch of Africa Journal, Reuters is providing an exciting product to tap into this very lively market.
