WCJ News Articles
AIJC 2025 Fellowship Applications Open
The African Investigative Journalism Conference is running two Fellowship tracks in 2025 — one for practicing early-career journalists under the age of 30 with five or less years’ experience, and one for mid-career journalists with five or more years’ experience....
AIJC2025 Call for Proposals Now Open
The African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) returns to Wits University from 5 to 7 November 2025 for its 21st edition. The Wits Centre for Journalism invites journalists, media professionals, trainers and academics to submit proposals around speakers,...
WCJ welcomes Dr Thandi Bombi to the academic team
The Wits Centre for Journalism is pleased to welcome Dr Thandi Bombi, who joins the academic team as a lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies. Bombi, who completed her master’s and PhD research through Rhodes University, joins Wits through the Department of Higher...
Gold standard of South African investigative reporting honoured at 2025 Taco Kuiper Awards
Sikonathi Mantshantsha of News24 takes top honours at the 2025 Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism with his powerful series "Waste Land", exposing the dismal state of municipal sewage and sanitation infrastructure in the Mogale City Local Municipality and...
Call for Participation: Baseline Survey on Journalist Safety
The Wits Centre for Journalism invites all community journalists and media workers (including volunteers and freelancers across print, radio and digital) from Southern and East Africa to participate in a benchmark survey into safety among community journalists and...
Green Media Accelerator (GMA) gives African climate justice projects major boost
Five innovative media startups from Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe have received funding to launch climate justice media projects through the inaugural Green Media Accelerator (GMA) bootcamp. This initiative, organised by the Consortium for Human Rights...
ACRP supports 10 young journalists to attend the 2024 African Investigative Journalism Conference
The Africa-China Reporting Project (ACRP), a project of the Wits Centre for Journalism, supported ten journalists under the age of 30 to attend the 2024 African Investigative Journalism Conference at Wits University in Johannesburg. These keen young journalists...
Handbook: Responsible Reporting on Whistleblowing (Download)
This handbook is designed for journalists, editors, and anyone working in a newsroom. It provides an introduction and guide to responsible and ethical practices for reporting on stories that involve information or disclosures that might be described as...
Green Media Accelerator Launched In Nairobi To Drive Sustainable Media Innovation
[Nairobi, Kenya, 25 March 2025] – The Consortium for Human Rights and Media (CHARM), through three of its partners - the Wits Centre for Journalism, Fojo Media Institute, and Magamba Network - is excited to announce the launch of the Green Media Accelerator. Happening...
Dehli-based photographer speaks at WCJ
The Wits Centre for Journalism and Wits Department of Sociology hosted internationally acclaimed Delhi-based photographer Ishan Tankha at a postgraduate seminar at the Centre. Drawing on stories and experiences from his illustrious career as an independant...
The impact of floods on disabled people in northern Nigeria
Heavy rains and a failed irrigation project have led to floods along rivers in Sokoto state, disproportionately impacting people with mobility issues. This article was developed through an Africa-China Reporting Project grant, a project of the Wits Centre for...
Eroding homes: Ghana’s disappearing coastal communities
Villages like Fuveme and Dzakplagbe in the south-east are being lost to rising seas, which threaten over seven million Ghanaians. This article was developed through an Africa-China Reporting Project grant, a project of the Wits Centre for Journalism, in collaboration...