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...
by WCJ Admin | Nov 8, 2025 | News
On 6 November 2025, the Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) hosted a seminar on Africa-China relations that was attended by more than thirty academics, journalists, civic actors and business leaders from South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana and Senegal. The seminar’s main...
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...
