by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 10, 2023 | Featured Story, News
By Stuart Dickinson: Veteran investigative journalist and editor Beauregard Tromp is set to take the reins of the African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC), one of the continent’s flagship journalism gatherings. The conference, hosted annually by the Wits...
by Stuart Dickinson | Jul 27, 2023 | Featured Story, News, Webinars
The Wits Centre for Journalism was recently joined by South African authors Jonny Steinberg and Lesley Mofokeng to discuss how to approach history in narrative non-fiction and literary journalism. While Steinberg’s first books were hailed as contemporary works...
by Stuart Dickinson | Jul 24, 2023 | Featured Story, News
The WCJ, joined by local and international organisations, recently participated in the Big Tech and Journalism conference hosted by the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), and endorsed the Principles for Fair Compensation which seek to guide development of...
by Stuart Dickinson | Jun 29, 2023 | Featured Story, News
By Stuart Dickinson: It was a proud night for staff and lecturers at the Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ), watching on as three Wits Vuvuzela alumni took to the stage at the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards on June 24 to receive recognition for their...
by Stuart Dickinson | Jun 23, 2023 | News, Webinars
Jamlab Africa coordinator Lindokuhle Nzuza spoke to Tshepo Tshabalala, manager of Journalism AI at Polis, the journalism think-tank at the London School of Economics, to understand the impact AI has on the journalism profession. How can newsrooms incorporate AI into...
