Justin Arenstein is a Knight International Journalism Fellow who is piloting four mobile news delivery systems at media organizations affiliated with the African Media Initiative (AMI) in Sub-Saharan Africa. These pilots will serve as models for mobile news systems across the continent.

Arenstein is a South African media owner and innovator and an internationally recognized expert on new media technologies. He is co-founder of Africa’s first rural-based independent investigative news wire agency, African Eye News Service (AENS). AENS is now the largest independent news wire in southern Africa. AENS received the Knight International Journalism Award in 2000, and Arenstein was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2009-2010. At Stanford, he explored strategies to help independent grassroots media in southern Africa to exploit the mobile web.

He is on the boards of the Press Council of South Africa, the Open Democracy Advice Center, and a number of other media-industry bodies. Arenstein has been a keynote speaker at conferences in Denmark, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland, Sweden and the United States. Prior to his selection as a Knight International Journalism Fellow, he served as a new media consultant to the Knight International Journalism Fellowships in Sub-Saharan Africa.