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The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF), in partnership with Sanlam, is pleased to announce that entries are now open for the prestigious Nat Nakasa Awards for Courageous Journalism 2025.
Audiences lean into video news and online influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for traditional publishers ● AI chatbots are also emerging as an alternat ...
Guest speakers Ryk van Niekerk (editor of Moneyweb) and Rob Rose (editor and co-founder of Currency) join WCJ lecturer Gillian Jones for part one of a two-part Wits Centre for Journalism webinar ...
Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons of GroundUp took top honours at the 18th Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism for their explosive exposé of Thabo Bester’s escape from prison, a saga which ...
This handbook is designed for journalists, editors, and anyone working in a newsroom. It provides an introduction and guide to responsible and ethical practices for reporting on stories that involve ...
The Wits Centre for Journalism’s African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) is offering grants to journalists to investigate health issues in seven African countries: Zimbabwe, Botswana, ...
By Lwazi Maseko and Stuart Dickinson Misinformation and disinformation are not only a threat to democracy, but a direct threat to the sustainability of credible news media, say media watchdog groups ...
The Henry Nxumalo Foundation and the African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) are offering grants to journalists to investigate health and development issues in six African countries: Kenya, ...
Along with the institutions they belong to, journalism schools have had to give up their usual methods of teaching in the light of the Covid-19 crisis. It is particularly difficult to teach practical ...
A series of ‘platform resets’ create new uncertainties for publishers as audiences worry about AI and misinformation. The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has released its Digital News ...
Journalists Pieter-Louis Myburgh and Pauli van Wyk took top honours at this year’s Taco Kuiper Investigative Journalism Awards. The Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Reporting, now in its 14 th year ...
A journalist has a duty to maintain the highest professional and ethical standards. A journalist shall at all times defend the principle of Freedom of the Press and other Media in relation to the ...