by Stuart Dickinson | May 10, 2024 | Featured Story, News, Webinars
In one of the first integrated workshops of its kind, the Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) recently hosted a training session for journalists, justice officials and emergency workers from across Gauteng, looking to impart skills that can help first responders improve...
by Stuart Dickinson | Apr 11, 2024 | News, Webinars
The Wits Centre for Journalism, fraycollege, the Media Development Investment Fund and the Sustainable Journalism Partnership recently hosted an online workshop looking at Revenue Generation for African Newsrooms. The workshop featured speakers Lars Tallert –...
by Stuart Dickinson | Oct 19, 2023 | Featured Story, News, Webinars
Investigative journalist and editor Beauregard Tromp has a fascinating and important conversation with Tessa Dooms and Lynsey Chutel about their newly published book Coloured: how classification became culture – a reflection on and celebration of coloured...
by Stuart Dickinson | Sep 11, 2023 | Featured Story, News, Webinars
Over the current Medium Term Expenditure Framework period, justice cluster ministries are allocated nearly R150-billion each financial year. Over R100-billion is spent on policing, more than R25.5 billion on correctional services, and R23 billion on our courts and...
by Stuart Dickinson | Jul 27, 2023 | Featured Story, News, Webinars
The Wits Centre for Journalism was recently joined by South African authors Jonny Steinberg and Lesley Mofokeng to discuss how to approach history in narrative non-fiction and literary journalism. While Steinberg’s first books were hailed as contemporary works...
by WCJ Admin | Jul 19, 2023 | Featured Story, News, Webinars
By Lwazi Maseko: Young people are finding new ways of consuming and sharing news, and news outlets, including journalists, need to adjust accordingly. This was the overarching consensus between participants in Jamlab Africa’s webinar titled Introduction of...