The Wits Centre for Journalism is proud to be part of the Sustainable Journalism Partnership, a global forum for journalists, media and sustainability researchers and entrepreneurs.

The partnership will be launched at a three-day event from 31 May in Stockholm. The event is being organised by the Fojo Media Institute, together with the Wits Centre for Journalism, Internews, Earth Journalism Network, World Association of News Publishers, the Global Investigative Journalism Network, and Global Forum for Media Development.

The partnership will see the development of knowledge and practice based on the relation between journalism and environmental, social and economic sustainability.

Join the launch, online or on site in Kalmar and Stockholm, Sweden.

The Wits Centre for Journalism is offering Journalism Short Courses, kicking off in June. 

The courses are available as stand-alone options; you will receive a certificate upon completion of the course. You are not required to register for a full degree to attend the short courses.

To register, fill in the application form and email it to admissions@journalism.co.za. 

The Wits Radio Academy is offering Advanced Radio Certificate Courses.

The upcoming New and Social Media for Radio course is open to radio practitioners who seek to develop an understanding of the different ways in which radio is making use of online possibilities and the ways in which audiences are using audio and other radio offerings online.

Send applications to [email protected] or [email protected]

The Wits Centre for Journalism is looking for an institutional partner in Southern, Eastern or Western Africa to produce a State of the Newsroom in their country. Part or full funding is available.

Deadline for expression of interest: 31 May 2022. 

The Wits Radio Academy hosted the Community Radio Sustainability Workshop on 30 April 2022.

The 2022 Pilot Phase is aimed at strengthening the community radio sector by using 10/15 community radio stations as “role models” for what an effective and sustainable community radio sector should look like in South Africa.

The Wits Radio Academy will continue to look into the identified community radio stations holistically, using the Academy’s “Health Check” tool as an instrument to establish the state of the community radio stations, and come up with informed interventions for the 10/15 pilot stations and the community radio sector, at large.

The Wits Centre for Journalism are co-hosts of the South African Communications Association (SACOMM) annual conference, which will be held from 14-16 September 2022 at Wits University.

This year's topic, Unravelling Big Tech: Power and the Global South, seeks to explore how the global South is engaged in strategies of cultural production which are not governed by global North counterparts. The call for papers closes on June 1. 

The Wits Centre for Journalism recently partnered with the Rhodes School of Journalism to set up the first-ever regional meeting of the International Association of Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS). Hosted by Rhodes Journalism, the two-day workshop focused on the teaching of literary journalism and narrative non-fiction in South African universities, both as practice and as a scholarly area.

The workshop sessions noted that, despite the rich history of non-fiction writing in South Africa, there is very little formal teaching and research of literary journalism and/or narrative non-fiction in literature, media and journalism departments.

Participants of the regional meeting agreed that South African scholars should create a local association to share research and teaching experiences and to encourage the expansion of curricula (especially in journalism and media studies departments) to include narrative non-fiction and literary journalism.