The 15th Annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture was delivered by Niren Tolsi on Thursday evening, on the eve of Media Freedom Day, marking the clampdown on newspapers by the Apartheid state on 19 October 1977 – at the University of the Witwatersrand,...
The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) and the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ) wish to invite you to an important event to commemorate Black Wednesday, 19th October 1977, when 18 black consciousness organisations and mainly black newspapers were...
The Sunday Time’s “Cato Manor Hit Squad” story was joint runner-up for the Taco Kuiper Prize for Investigative Journalism in 2013. We note the editor’s admission today that they “committed mistakes [in their reporting] and allowed ourselves to be manipulated by...
The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof Ruksana Osman, the South African National Editors’ Forum and Wits Journalism invite you to the 15th annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture. Ruth First Fellow Niren Tolsi will speak on: Fire and Media: Towards a New South...
Journalists all over the world have lost jobs in their thousands due to the digital first transition. South Africa is participating in a worldwide survey called The New Beats, and Prof Glenda Daniels from Wits Media Studies dept is heading SA’s wing of the research....
Financially troubled mainstream media and their journalists need to work harder to build strong personalized relationships with their audiences whom they must also serve personalized news content or kiss their centuries-old business goodbye
Masana Samuel ‘Sam’ Nzima was born in 1934 in the rural village of Lilydale in Mpumalanga near Bushbuckridge. He later moved to Johannesburg to seek work. He got his first lucky break as a photojournalist on the World newspaper where he started as a freelancer and...
On 3 May 2018, to celebrate World Press Freedom Day, the United Nations will launch the UNESCO study on World Trends of Freedom of Expression and Media Development, led for Wits by Dr Iginio Gagliardone, and produced in collaboration with the University of Oxford and...
World leaders and researchers of media management and media business meet in South Africa for a four-day summit starting on Sunday to take a critical look at threats and opportunities for a sustainable African and global media industry and to map out the ingredients...
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) is deeply concerned and disgusted by the labelling of certain prominent South African journalists and editors as “Stratcom” agents in a front-page article published by all major Independent Media-owned newspapers on...
