Reporting on the systems that quietly run our lives.
I'm Hellen Pitt, and this is where I publish my reporting on technology, media, and power, alone, without an editor smoothing it out first. If you want the story behind the headline, you're in the right place.
The quiet cartel building Africa's data infrastructure
Behind the continent's cloud boom sits a small cluster of firms deciding who gets bandwidth, who gets left out, and who pays for it. I spent six weeks tracing the contracts. Here's what I found.
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Hellen Pitt
I started Hellen Pitt Media because I got tired of watching stories get softened on the way to publication. I spent seven years reporting on media and platform power inside newsrooms before I left to write on my own terms, covering technology, culture, and the institutions that quietly shape how we all live.
I report every dispatch before I write it: public filings, interviews people are willing to put their name to, and the kind of documents most outlets never bother requesting.
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