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Two South Africans have won the Knight News Challenge with Signalnoi.se, a service designed to ‘separate the signal from the noise’ by leveraging insights from social media to better inform editors’ news-coverage decisions.

03 September 2012

As the news process continues to be changed by social media, two South African entrepreneurs have created an award-winning project that enables online publishers to monitor in real-time what is resonating with readers online in order to make better-informed editorial decisions.

Signalnoi.se, developed by Mohamed Nanabhay and Haroon Meer, was selected as one of the six winning projects of the first round of the Knight News Challenge 2012. The Knight News Challenge is an initiative of the Knight Foundation, the leading funder of journalism and media innovation globally.

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