by Franz Kruger | Mar 3, 2010 | Media freedom
The Ugandan government is accusing the Buganda Kingdom's CBS radio station of promoting genocide, but is avoiding the laying of charges which it would find difficult to sustain, writes Kalundi Serumaga in The East African. The truth is that the station was guilty...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 17, 2010 | Media freedom
Editing a newspaper is about motivating a team of people to give of their best, and produce gritty, powerful journalism, writes Anton Harber in Business Day. Judging by the air of depression that seems to be pervasive in many newsrooms, too few editors are succeeding...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 17, 2010 | Media freedom
David Coetzee, the founder of the alternative information bulletin SouthScan, for a number of years the most significant source of independent, uncensored information about what was going on in apartheid South Africa, passed away on 24 January 2010 at the age of 66....
by Franz Kruger | Feb 11, 2010 | Media freedom
The Fifa show is rolling into SA, bringing the promise of World Cup excitement, crowds and other benefits, writes Franz Kruger, the Mail & Guardian's ombud. But it also bring media restrictions that are completely unacceptable. Franz Kruger writes in...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 1, 2010 | Media freedom
Two rulings in courts in Europe and Canada set important benchmarks for media freedom as the SA media enter into what promises to be a difficult year, writes Dario Milo in the Mail & Guardian. Dario Milo writes in the Mail & Guardian: South Africa faces a...
by Franz Kruger | Jan 20, 2010 | Media freedom
Threats to journalists in Russia have come to the fore with news that three armed men were arrested outside the home of Business Day's correspondent in Moscow, writes the paper in an editorial. It is time the government in that country commits to protecting the...
