| GroundUp | |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Format: | Online newspaper |
| Editor: | Nathan Geffen |
| Depeditor: | Barbara October |
| Assoceditor: | Alide Dasnois Brent Meersman |
| Foundation: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Headquarters: | Cape Town, South Africa |
GroundUp is a South African-based not-for-profit news agency. It publishes most content under a creative commons license and is known for its focus on public interest stories within vulnerable communities[1] [2] [3] with a "bottom-up" style of reporting.[4] Their content is regularly reprinted and featured in other South African news publications such as the Daily Maverick, News24, and Mail & Guardian. The publication was founded in 2012 by Nathan Geffen, a former Treatment Action Campaign member.
The publication is known for exposing corruption within the South African National Lottery scheme.[5] For this investigation, GroundUp editor Geffen and journalist Raymond Joseph were joint winners of the 2021 South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) Nat Nakasa award for courageous community journalism.[6] Joseph went on to win the Vodacom Journalist of the Year[7] and Taco Kuiper awards.[8]
In 2023, GroundUp reporters Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn investigated and exposed the prison escape of convicted rapist Thabo Bester, for which they were received the Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity and the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award in 2023.
These sources are published by GroundUp, and are indicated in this article by a double dagger (‡):