by Stuart Dickinson | Nov 7, 2025 | Featured Story, News
Dewald van Rensburg of South African investigative journalism unit amaBhungane has won the 2025 AIJC African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award for his series of investigations titled “City of Gold”, laying bare in meticulous detail how the underground...
by Stuart Dickinson | Sep 29, 2025 | Featured Story, News
Join the Wits Centre for Journalism for a one-day workshop designed to equip financial journalists and communicators with techniques to transform dry, complex financial data into compelling, engaging stories that resonate with their audiences. Through a combination of...
by Stuart Dickinson | Sep 26, 2025 | Featured Story, News
After receiving a record number of entries in 2025, with some fierce competition among them, the judging panel of the African Investigative Journalist of the Year (AIJY) Award has settled on its top five entries. The two runners-up and winner, yet to be determined,...
by Stuart Dickinson | Sep 4, 2025 | Featured Story, News
Wits Centre for Journalism partner climateXchange has launched a new membership hub, open to journalists working in the climate space, offering valuable resources to assist in building the impact of their climate reporting. The free-to-join membership is for those who...
by Stuart Dickinson | Sep 3, 2025 | Featured Story, News
South Africa’s Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) convened the first ever media-focused parallel event to the G20 in Johannesburg on 1–2 September 2025. Wits Centre for Journalism director Dr Dinesh Balliah and convenor...
by WCJ Admin | Jul 7, 2025 | Featured Story, News
The Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) is proud to announce the selection of 24 journalists from across Africa who will each be granted $1000 (R17 300) to investigate and report on a range of important health issues on the continent. “These grants are a significant...
