by Staff Reporter | Nov 4, 2021 | Opportunities
The Henry Nxumalo Foundation and the African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) are offering grants to journalists to investigate health and development issues in six African countries: Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda and South Africa The grants,...
by Staff Reporter | Nov 2, 2021 | Featured Story, General media news, News
Lesley Cowling, University of the Witwatersrand In 1988, Aggrey Klaaste became the editor of Sowetan and launched a project to intervene in the fraught political situation in South Africa. The Sowetan was the foremost daily newspaper for black South Africans, a...
by Staff Reporter | Oct 18, 2021 | News
The second Aggrey Klaaste Annual Colloquium aim is to commemorate the events that took place on 19 October 1977, the infamous Black Wednesday. On 19 October 2020, Media Freedom Day, the Aggrey Klaaste Trust (AKT), in partnership with Sowetan, the Journalism Department...
by Staff Reporter | Aug 20, 2021 | Journalism Jobs
The Wits Journalism seeks to appoint a Web and Communications Officer who will be responsible for communicating the department’s activities to a range of audiences through a range of appropriate channels, including a website, social media properties, newsletters and...
by Staff Reporter | Aug 10, 2021 | Featured Story, News
The new Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) being set up at the University of the Witwatersrand plans to engage with the rapidly changing world of African journalism through high-level scholarship and direct professional and public engagement. Since Wits launched a...
