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Journalism Skills for professionals and non-professionals

Wits Journalism offers a range of relevant courses to working journalists and anybody else wanting to learn new skills. Taught by leading professionals after hours or in a block release format, courses can be taken on a certificate basis. Under some conditions, certificates may be used towards a post-graduate degree. Apply for these mid-year courses starting in June 2019: Online, Radio, TV/Video Journalism, Introduction to Financial Journalism; and Reporting on Children.

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Wits Journalism launches blended learning

For the first time, Wits Journalism will offer blended learning courses: a mix of face-to-face and online teaching, allowing students from outside Johannesburg to study with us. The courses being piloted are Journalism for Communicators and Development Communications.

News from Wits Journalism

Dinesh Balliah to represent South Africa at Study of US Institute on Journalism and Media

Wits Journalism lecturer Dinesh Balliah will represent South Africa at the Study of the US Institute on Journalism and Media from June 2 to July 14

Wits Journalism alumnus selected for UK traineeship

Wits Journalism alumnus Ntando Thukwana has been elected for a traineeship program with one of the leading news channels in the UK. She will be heading to Channel 4 News…

Opportunities and Awards

Nominations open for Nat Nakasa Journalism Award: Celebrating Courageous Journalism – 2019

Nat Nakasa was a prominent South African journalist and writer who died in exile in 1965. The annual Nat Nakasa award is awarded for courageous and brave journalism. The award…