Death toll adds up as journalists die in Israel and Palestine conflict

[Karabo Ledwaba] The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has confirmed that at least 12 journalists have been killed, two are missing and eight are injured due to the Israel and Palestine conflict...

Sanef fund to fight misinformation on journalism

[Danette Breitenbach] Sanef will set up a fund for journalists to fight fake news and misinformation about the profession...

Remembering SA World Media Freedom Day

[Danette Breitenbach] What does media freedom on South Africa's Media Freedom Day mean...

South African journalism under siege

[Danette Breitenbach] Journalists are facing attacks on all fronts - online and physically when they are out covering stories...

Of foxes and paradoxes in the media henhouse

[Derek Abdinor] Future historians may well scramble to understand what was going on at the Media Freedom Conference in London and the simultaneous Social Media summit at the White House (held earlier this year in July). They will surely be confounded by media policy in the post-broadcast era by looking at these two events. And they will struggle to reconcile what is claimed to be policy against what is actually practised on the ground...

Marianne Thamm on the crucial role of whistleblowers and investigative journalists in defeating corruption

[Leigh Andrews] On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 I snatched up the rare opportunity to spend most of my lunch hour with Marianne Thamm, the incredibly smart, candid natural storyteller who has witnessed the harshest violence as an investigative journalist, as well as the hope, resilience and fortitude of South Africa. Here's what you missed...

The best of times and the worst of times for journalism

[Juanita Pienaar] Jennifer Thomas, an award-winning, veteran American broadcast journalist, was invited by the United States Embassy (South Africa) to address the Cape Town Press Club on media coverage of elections in the age of fake news late last month...

Media activist Angela Quintal reported to be safe

[Louise Burgers] Media activist and former South African journalist and editor, Angela Quintal, has been interrogated in Tanzania...

A South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta: When Daphne met Dropbox

[Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster] For a nation-state marked in the recent past by the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on an island that is positioning itself as the future blockchain capital of the world, it was inevitable that both these strands would come together at some point...

Why the Khashoggi murder mystery has dominated news headlines

[Leigh Andrews] With fake news at an all-time high and trust in the media at an all-time low, the Khashoggi murder case highlights the role of the media as the fourth estate, as killing the journalist does not necessarily mean you've killed the story...

#WorldPressFreedomDay: Freedom to do journalism

[Guy Berger] Africa's gift to the world - World Press Freedom Day every 3 May - keeps giving. Today, this freedom is possibly more relevant than ever...

Media freedom, a personal freedom

[Danette Breitenbach] Media freedom is a right of all South Africans and not a limited mandate of editors and journalists...

Deny violence of speech, writing and action against women

[Teresa Jenkins] During the 16 days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign (25 November to 10 December), let us also recall that violence of speech, writing and art also hampers our ability to reach such a target...

Publish and be damned in name of patriotism

[Anton Harber] After being stalked down a street, taunted and hit with a wrench, Emmanuel Sithole was cornered by his attackers, stabbed in the heart on a rubbish-strewn Alexandra street. He was from Mozambique...

Criminal libel has no place in law books

[Anton Harber] He has made it his mission 'to expose, through my investigations, the scourge of corruption, which is robbing (Angola) of billions of dollars a year': journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques de Morais...

One step forwards, one back for democracy

[Anton Harber] If journalists in Zimbabwe had stood up in that country's parliament to protest against interference with their cellphone signals, they would have been laughed out of the place...

Serial - A murder investigation...

[Anton Harber] An experimental US serial has transformed investigative journalism...

Let's encourage Zuma to bash whites

[Chris Moerdyk] I am all in favour of President Jacob Zuma continuing his sniping campaign against whites and blaming everything on apartheid...

Have we left the media freedom debate too late?

[Leigh Andrews] If you thought the murder of French media workers had little impact on the South African media landscape, Right2Know suggests you think again - prepare to take action with your pens and laptops...

Editors must edit without fear of being attacked

[Anton Harber] I once asked a South African editor why he ran a cartoon that he agreed was offensive. He said he had felt obliged, as he did not want to censor a well-known and much-respected cartoonist...