Journalism of Drum’s heyday remains cause for celebration — 70 years later
Drum becomes an online-only magazine this month, almost 70 years after it was first launched as an African print publication.
Skills courses at Wits Journalism to be offered on a blended basis
The courses are aimed at Wits Journalism’s postgraduate students, both career-entry and mid-career, but are also available to certificate students
Babel Unbound: Rage, Reason and Rethinking Public Life is now available
The book is available free until July 1via JStor and ProQuest
Register now: Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Africa – a free Wits Online Course
Running in its third year, this is a free online course, which in 2020, will be running for seven weeks instead of six, to include materials on media freedom issues in the Covid-19 era.
Pieter-Louis Myburgh wins 14th Taco Kuiper Award for Gangster State
Journalists Pieter-Louis Myburgh and Pauli van Wyk took top honours at this year’s Taco Kuiper Investigative Journalism Awards.
Wits Journalism and Valley Trust invite you to the 14th Taco Kuiper Awards
The awards are in recognition of South Africa’s best investigative journalism reporting of 2019
