Senior Lecturer or Lecturer on a nine-month contract

The Department of Journalism in the School of Literature and Language Studies is seeking to employ a Senior Lecturer or Lecturer on a nine-month contract. The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Teach Journalism and Media Studies courses;
• Co-ordinate and grow the mid-career honours and short course programmes, which aim to develop the skills of working journalists;
• Conduct and supervise research.

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Courses For Journalists
Wits Journalism is offering a number of certificate and short courses for those who want to brush up on their journalism skills.

Nigerian journalist says businessman threatened her over investigative report

Nigerian authorities should investigate claims that a businessman threatened freelance journalist Augustina Armstrong-Ogbonna over her investigation into his company, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Armstrong-Ogbonna, who won the 2015 United Nations Foundation Prize for humanitarian coverage, said she was threatened by Emmanuel Iheanacho, a former interior minister, while investigating allegations that his company, Integrated Oil and Gas, was dredging around Irede community in the commercial capital, Lagos, without government approval and without an environmental impact assessment, according to news reports. Iheanacho denied the allegations about his company to CPJ.

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BBC launches second BBC World News Komla Dumor Award

For the second year running, the award honours presenter Komla Dumor, who passed away two years ago, aged 41. Komla was an exceptional Ghanaian broadcaster who in his short life made an extraordinary impact – in Ghana, in Africa and across the world – on Joy FM and at the BBC. Through his tenacious journalism and compelling storytelling, he worked tirelessly to bring a more sophisticated African narrative to the world. The BBC is committed to continuing Komla’s legacy.

Following the success of last year’s award, and winner Nancy Kacungira of KTN in Kenya spending three months gaining skills and experience at the BBC headquarters in New Broadcasting House in London, BBC World News continues to invest in finding young talent from Africa to tell African stories to global audiences.

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SANEF media statement on meeting with the Economic Freedom Fighters

A delegation led by the Chairperson of Sanef, Mpumelelo Mkhabela, met with the leadership of the EFF at the latter’s office on Monday February 22,2016. The meeting followed a request from Sanef to discuss the party’s decision to bar media workers from Gupta family owned media outlets from EFF functions.

Sanef indicated that the EFF decision was in its opinion a violation of the constitutional protection of journalists to do their work without let or hindrance and asked the EFF to explain how they justified the alleged violation of the Constitution. Sanef also repeated its call to the EFF leadership to allow journalists to go about their work unhindered and without the threat of violence which we continue to condemn.

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Law Focus – Testing Democracy

These are testing times for South Africa and this time on Law Focus we look at how our democracy is challenged and upheld.

We speak to Professor Steven Friedman about the nature of our democracy. Leanne Govindsamy from Corruption Watch joins us to discuss the Nkandla Constitutional Court case, and we hear an update from Naadira Munshi from SERI about the proceedings around Marikana.

We analyse the impact of social media in movements like ‪#‎FeesMustFall‬ with the help of TNS Global Brand Equity Centre’s Kyle Findlay.

We end off the show with a Constitutional Corner about the Right to Courts.

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Law Focus – Bogus Colleges & Free Education

Education is a hot topic for South Africans everywhere right now.

We speak to Joe Samuels from the South African Qualifications Authority and Dr Shaheeda Essack from the Department of Higher Education and Training about bogus colleges. Daniel Linde from Equal Education explains the legal possibilities of free higher education.

We end off the show with a Constitutional Corner about the Right to Education.

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Law Focus – Student Accommodation

On this week’s #LawFocus we discuss the hot topic of university accommodation in light of #Shackvilleand the recent strikes.

UCT student and activist Masixole Mlandu gives us his views before we hear from the university’s Elijah Moholola. Afterwards, Sarah Godsell speaks about the narratives of violence that is committed by protesters and institutions

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Free the Word! at the Orbit

The event will seek to discuss how literary translation is only open to cultures that enjoy a written language and have produced written works, that is, cultures with readers who are able to read these works in their own tongue. The panelists will explore how literary translation reveals conflicts of identity, latent or otherwise; and how literary translation represents the opposite moment of cultural assimilation or even the obliteration of identities.

We will try to raise awareness about how literature can promote the voices of those who are suppressed or silenced and promote an open dialogue between cultures. Keorapetse Kgositsile was born in 1938 in South Africa, and was a founding member of the African National Congress Department of Education and Department of Arts and Cultur

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Call for Entries – The Annual Local Media Excellence Awards 2016

The Annual Local Media Excellence Awards is aimed at encouraging excellence and rewarding meritorious work and was previously sponsored and organised by Sanlam, who has unfortunately decided to terminate its participation in the annual local media awards.

The competition has always been presented under the auspices of the FCJ, so the management committee has decided that the competition will continue. The FCJ has also decided to rename the competition to The Annual Local Media Excellence Awards and will be organising the competition. We have re-introduced two categories: editorial comment and headlines.

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African Industrialisation Investigation & Workshop 2016: Probing China’s Role in Africa Following FOCAC6

The Wits China-Africa Reporting Project is seeking applications from journalists to participate in a collaborative investigation and workshop focused on current Africa-China industrialisation initiatives in Africa, aiming to probe the social and environmental impact of industrialisation on the continent.

The Wits China-Africa Reporting Project (the Project) will bring a group of selected journalists to Johannesburg to attend a short workshop at Wits Journalism in late May 2016 to facilitate training and coordination, and will then issue the journalists with reporting grants to produce investigative features.

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