by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 11, 2025 | State of the Newsroom
This edition of State of the Newsroom looks back at 2019 – the year that was – and offers some initial reflections on 2020, a year that, as Franz Krüger puts it in the preface, “was impossible to ignore”. We have called this issue “Before/After” to try and capture the...
by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 11, 2025 | State of the Newsroom
The State of the Newsroom 2018: Structured/Unstructured is the fifth report of its kind to be published by the Wits Centre for Journalism, and chronicles the ups and downs of South Africa’s media industry together with a few deeper dives into specific issues. For the...
by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 11, 2025 | State of the Newsroom
A look at jobs in the newsroom, fake news and fact-checking journalism, and highlights the problem of threats to media freedom in South Africa. The fourth annual report, State of the Newsroom: Fakers and Makers, looks at jobs in the newsroom, fake news and...
by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 11, 2025 | State of the Newsroom
This is the third State of the Newsroom to be published by the Wits Centre for Journalism and asks the key question: what exactly do we mean by the “newsroom” today? Inside/Outside offers perspectives on what is happening both ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the newsroom as we...
by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 11, 2025 | State of the Newsroom
State of the Newsroom 2014: Disruptions Accelerated documents a time of major transitions in the journalism industry. Besides documenting shifts in the media landscape in the country, it looks at falling circulation in print media, digital developments in the...
