Kerr Fatou

Kerr Fatou is a Banjul-area online media house founded by Gambian broadcaster Fatou Touray. Combining a news website with widely followed video interviews and talk programming, it covers Gambian politics, current affairs and social issues, and has become one of the country's most prominent digital news platforms since the post-2017 media opening.

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Kerr Fatou at a glance

Country: Gambia
Region: West Africa · Africa
Kind of outlet: Digital-native outlet
Editorial leaning: Centrist
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How Crosswire groups Kerr Fatou

Crosswire groups Kerr Fatou as Centrist for comparisons within the Gambia's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In the Gambia, Foroyaa is listed as Left-leaning — so you can open Kerr Fatou beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Kerr Fatou sits in the Gambia's press

Kerr Fatou is one of 4 outlets tracked in the Gambia and the only digital-native outlet tracked there. By outlets tracked, the Gambia ranks 16th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Africa hub, which lists 178 outlets in all.

Across Africa, Crosswire tracks 64 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Kerr Fatou outside the Gambia, starting with West Africa, are L'Avenir (Côte d'Ivoire), Journal du Mali (Mali), Burkina24 (Burkina Faso) and ActuNiger (Niger). Opening one of them beside Kerr Fatou is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.