About

This page collects the New Frame archive.

New Frame was a not-for-profit journalism project that ran from 2018 to 2022. The project was unexpectedly closed after four years after funding was suddenly cut. You can read about the controversy here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

This archival site has been put up by some of the ex-New Frame employees so that our progressive, pro-poor reporting can continue to find readers. You can see who was part of the original New Frame team on the archived page at archive.org.

How we did it and what’s missing

the original New Frame site was deleted soon after the publication of an article in the New York Times that drew attention to the funder’s geopolitical propaganda interests. As the workers had no access to the website or story archives, we had to rebuild the website from scratch (with a lot of help from Jason Norwood-Young) using the Internet Archive to retrieve each story. Some of the images, unfortunately, were not stored in the archive and thus you may notice generic placeholders in multiple stories. Browsing by author is also not currently working, but you can usually find an author’s stories via the search function. We’re also still having trouble listing the photographers and illustrators for each story. Most illustrations were done by Anastasya Eliseeva, and our photographers over the years included James Oatway, Daylin Paul, Ihsaan Haffejee, Madelene Cronjé and numerous freelancers.

A note on URLs

In most cases, if you have the original URL for a New Frame story, you can simply replace the ‘.com’ bit with ‘org’ and it will work. If, for instance, you come across an old link to https://newframe.com/sharp-read-reflections-on-death, you can visit https://newframe.org/sharp-read-reflections-on-death.