Das Megaphon

{{Short description|Austrian newspaper}}

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{{For-multi|the sound amplification device|Megaphone|other uses|Megaphone (disambiguation)}}

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Das Megaphon ({{literal translation|The Megaphone}}) is a street newspaper sold by homeless in Graz and other cities in Styria, Austria. It was started in October 1995 and is run by Catholic charity Caritas. The paper is published monthly with a circulation of about 13,000 copies.{{cite web|title=Megaphon- Straßenmagazin und soziale Initiative|url=http://www.caritas-steiermark.at/hilfe-einrichtungen/interkultur-sport/megaphon/ |website=caritas-steiermark.at|language=de|access-date=20 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302013649/http://www.caritas-steiermark.at/hilfe-einrichtungen/interkultur-sport/megaphon/ |archive-date=2009-03-02|url-status=dead}} It is sold mostly by Nigerian and Liberian male refugees.{{cite book|last=Swithinbank|first=Tessa|year=2001|title=Coming Up from the Streets: The Story of The Big Issue|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ha1dO1WD88AC&pg=PA160|location=London|publisher=Earthscan|page=160|isbn=1-85383-544-7|access-date=20 March 2009}}{{cite book|editor-last=Sweetman|editor-first=Caroline|year=1997|title=Gender and Poverty in the North|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x88tJaaHIBgC&pg=PA49|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxfam|page=49|isbn=0-85598-393-0|access-date=20 March 2009}} Megaphon was one of the street papers initiating the Homeless World Cup in 2001 and hosted the first cup in 2003.{{cite news|date=2 July 2003 |title=World Cup blows whistle on problems of homeless |url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_2-7-2003_pg2_23 |newspaper=Daily Times |agency=Reuters |access-date=20 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607003556/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_2-7-2003_pg2_23 |archive-date=7 June 2011|url-status=dead}}

In 2004, Megaphon sponsored a lecture series aimed at improving homeless people's access to education; the program paid for university professors to give lectures in homeless shelters, and arranged for homeless individuals to have access to local university facilities.{{cite magazine|last=Chapman|first=Clare|date=12 November 2004|title=Homeless offered degree of respect|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=192372§ioncode=26|magazine=Times Higher Education|access-date=20 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320034833/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=192372§ioncode=26|archive-date=20 March 2012}}