by Stuart Dickinson | Dec 5, 2025 | Featured Story, News
Earlier this year, the Wits Centre for Journalism conducted a baseline survey into the safety of local and community journalists in Southern and East Africa. Led by WCJ lecturer Dr Nechama Brodie with support from the Consortium on Human Rights and Media (CHARM) and...
by Stuart Dickinson | Dec 2, 2025 | Featured Story, News
The Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) has assumed management of the VOW 88.1 community radio station from the Faculty of Humanities at Wits University. The move comes as part of the “VOW Reimagined” project which began in 2023 to realign the station with Wits...
by Stuart Dickinson | Nov 26, 2025 | Featured Story, News
The 2025 edition of State of the Newsroom takes a detailed look at the possible impact of artificial intelligence on the news in South Africa, what’s happening now, and the changes newsrooms will need to make. We also ask media experts what they think the...
by Stuart Dickinson | Nov 19, 2025 | News, Webinars
Three decades have passed since media reforms sought to create a more democratic, inclusive media in South Africa, providing a good opportunity to assess how successful those initiatives were. A new report, published by DW Akademie and co-authored by Prof Franz...
by Stuart Dickinson | Nov 11, 2025 | Featured Story, News
Stuart Dickinson Images: Leon Sadiki Over 450 delegates from 50 countries participated in 65+ lectures, workshops and networking sessions at the 21st African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC), held at Wits University in Johannesburg from 5-7 November. Widely...
by Stuart Dickinson | Nov 10, 2025 | News
The African Investigative Journalism Conference is taking flight in 2026, heeding the call of the continent’s journalism community in making the event more accessible to those who travel from afar every year to the annual gathering in Johannesburg. “Over 21 years of...
