by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 11, 2025 | State of the Newsroom
The 2021 issue of State of the Newsroom overviews the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the media in South Africa in 2020. It explores the difficult terrain of data and data governance, and how the country’s media should be re-orientating itself to a local data...
by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 11, 2025 | State of the Newsroom
The Wits Centre for Journalism and the Continuing Journalism Education’s (CJE) initiative worked closely to develop the first ever State of the Newsroom for Malawi (2021). This inaugural issue focuses on corruption in the media in Malawi. The year 2020 was...
by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 11, 2025 | State of the Newsroom
This edition of State of the Newsroom looks back at 2019 – the year that was – and offers some initial reflections on 2020, a year that, as Franz Krüger puts it in the preface, “was impossible to ignore”. We have called this issue “Before/After” to try and capture the...
by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 11, 2025 | State of the Newsroom
The State of the Newsroom 2018: Structured/Unstructured is the fifth report of its kind to be published by the Wits Centre for Journalism, and chronicles the ups and downs of South Africa’s media industry together with a few deeper dives into specific issues. For the...
by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 11, 2025 | State of the Newsroom
A look at jobs in the newsroom, fake news and fact-checking journalism, and highlights the problem of threats to media freedom in South Africa. The fourth annual report, State of the Newsroom: Fakers and Makers, looks at jobs in the newsroom, fake news and...
by Stuart Dickinson | Aug 11, 2025 | State of the Newsroom
This is the third State of the Newsroom to be published by the Wits Centre for Journalism and asks the key question: what exactly do we mean by the “newsroom” today? Inside/Outside offers perspectives on what is happening both ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the newsroom as we...
