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Confirm your seat for the 2018 State of the Newsroom launch

You still have an opportunity to book your seat at the launch of State of the Newsroom 2018: Structured/unstructured. This latest report will feature insights on the following topics: The crisis at the SABC – will retrenchments help?; What happens to journalists when they lose their jobs?; Journalist safety and trauma: how vulnerable are South African journalists? The launch will include a panel debate on the future of journalism titled “Journalism is dead. Long Live Journalism”. Over the last year we have seen continuing staff reductions in major newsrooms and a decline in original reporting. We have also seen the launch of two digital only titles and a new 24 hour tv news channel. But new sustainable business models for journalism in digital media remain elusive. There are so many exciting possibilities but so little evidence of a bright future. So where should we be looking for the new paths that could lead to a healthy future for journalism and journalists? What could and what should a new media look like?

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Radio Days Africa invites you to celebrate 10 years of learning, engagement, conversation and thinking around the different aspects of the radio business within the African context. The conference will again be hosted at the Wits Club in Johannesburg, from Wednesday, 3 July to Friday, 5 July 2019. Reserve your spot, register here.

News from Wits Journalism

A call for input: The 15th African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC19)

Do you have something that needs to be shared with your colleagues at #AIJC19? Do you have a topic, or some particular training that you think would enhance the conference?…

Prof Lesley Cowling to teach at Mannheim's International Summer School

Mannheim University has recently established a partnership with the Wits School of Languages, Literature and Media, which is Wits Journalism’s home school

From our Projects

Wits Journalism hosts a number of projects that have a substantial impact on the South African media industry.

WITS JUSTICE PROJECT | The wasted years: When justice isn’t just

Ignoring a problem which destroys lives, turns wrongfully-convicted innocent people into victims and permits real perpetrators to get away with murder doesn’t mean it will go away

JAMLAB | Credible journalism is at the core of this news startup — and it’s working

New Frame editor-in-chief, Richard Pithouse, shares how he is building a publication on strict principles

‘Big business’: Do 1 in 3 South African women buy skin bleaching creams?

A “scandal”. That’s how a UK documentary described the use of illegal skin bleaching creams in South Africa, claiming a third of local women use them. But what’s the evidence?

AFRICA CHINA REPORTING PROJECT | Malawi bequeaths cotton production to Chinese firm

Malawi has called in the Chinese to ramp up cotton production and they are making a big impact but at a cost, and skills transfers are not taking place

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