by Stuart Dickinson | May 26, 2026 | Featured Story, News, Webinars
On 25 May, the Wits Centre for Journalism hosted Dr Richard Stupart for a webinar discussing a new report about journalism in authoritarian contexts. Stupart, a British Academy Research Fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and...
by Stuart Dickinson | May 5, 2026 | Featured Story, News
The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has announced the winners of this year’s 11th edition of the Digital Media African Awards, where South African newsrooms and journalists took first place across seven categories. The awards celebrate initiatives that...
by Stuart Dickinson | Apr 15, 2026 | Featured Story, News
The Citizen Justice Network (CJN), a community justice project of the Wits Centre for Journalism, has helped a South African police officer uncover and remedy a costly administrative error that had drained more than R60,000 from his salary in maintenance payments for...
by Stuart Dickinson | Apr 1, 2026 | Featured Story, News
Pictured: Mustapha K. Darboe (left) at the 2025 African Investigative Journalist of the Year awards; protests erupted in Banjul, Gambia following Darboe’s investigation (right) – image: The Republic. Gambian journalist Mustapha K. Darboe’s meticulous...
by Stuart Dickinson | Mar 30, 2026 | Featured Story, News
Jeff Wicks of News24 won the 2026 Taco Kuiper Award for his explosive book The Shadow State: Why Babita Deokaran had to die, an investigation into the assassination of whistleblower Deokaran that reveals a vast web of criminal syndicates and corrupt government...
