Local radio is plugging gaps in South Africa’s mainstream media coverage
Community radio stations have thrown themselves into the political discussion with gusto
SANEF condemns the harassment of Jacques Pauw
The South African National Editors’ (SANEF) notes with alarm an event that unfolded yesterday afternoon and evening that threatened media freedom. Investigative journalist and author, Jacques Pauw, had his house raided by a terrorist-fighting ‘Crimes against the...ANC’s Pule Mabe intimidates SABC journalists
SANEF believes that the SABC must be allowed to exercise its editorial independence to cover the stories it deems fit.
News from the Career-entry Honours in Journalism
Wits Journalism welcomed the 2018 full time Career-entry journalism honours students in February. The class will take over all Wits Vuvuzela publications from the middle of March. As the department welcomes the new cohort, we would like to congratulate the...Outstanding examples of journalism through the Taco Kuiper grant
As the year draws to a close, we take stock of some of the work that has been produced through the Taco Kuiper grant. Every year, the Taco Kuiper grant recognises outstanding examples of journalism that reveal untold stories, hold the powerful to account and question...Secrecy enables corruption, says Joseph E. Stiglitz
The global economy allows secrecy to flourish and investigative journalists are needed to help unveil this secrecy and root out corruption. By Aidan Jones Nobel Laureate economist Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz emphasized that investigative journalists are needed to...
