by Staff Reporter | Feb 16, 2022 | Featured Story
Media freedom is increasingly under threat around the world from a combination of economic and political factors. For some years now, digital technology has undermined the business model that has traditionally sustained journalism. That – and an increasing...
by Staff Reporter | Feb 4, 2022 | Featured Story, News
Journalism globally faces a sustainability crisis. It largely stems from declining advertising revenue, loss of revenue to technology giants, control of news media by political actors and individuals with business interests, disinformation, and dwindling public trust....
by Staff Reporter | Aug 10, 2021 | Featured Story, News
The new Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) being set up at the University of the Witwatersrand plans to engage with the rapidly changing world of African journalism through high-level scholarship and direct professional and public engagement. Since Wits launched a...
by Tshepo Tshabalala | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured Story, News
This year the team tackled the theme of ‘work’, formal and informal as well as entrepreneurial in the Johannesburg suburbs of Melville and Parktown. PRISTINE: Fundiswa Mngquli shows off one of his expensive pieces, a British guard’s jacket. Picture: Phumi...
by Tshepo Tshabalala | Apr 24, 2017 | General media news, Radio Academy
Wits campus radio station VowFM has continued their winning streak, scooping four awards at the annual Liberty Radio Awards held at the Sandton Convention Centre on Saturday night Campus radio station Vow FM, based at Wits Journalism, walked away...
