In 2016, Bhekisisa started to do solutions journalism. But what is it? “Think Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Christie,” David Bornstein from the Solutions Journalism Network tells Bhekisisa’s editor Mia Malan. “These are stories that answer ‘the how.'” 

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Mia Malan is Bhekisisa's editor-in-chief and executive director. Under her leadership, Bhekisisa’s online readership increased 30 fold and its donor funding eightfold between 2013 and 2019. Malan has won more than 20 African journalism awards for her work and is a former fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.

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Danny Booysen is a freelance audio technical producer and has over 30 years of experience in the broadcast industry.

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