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Human8 doubles down on AI-enabled consultative power

Human8 Human8 doubles down on AI-enabled consultative power

29 Oct 2025

Human8 names Tim Nguyen product and innovation manager to further advance insight solutions

Human8 Human8 names Tim Nguyen product and innovation manager to further advance insight solutions

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Supporters of Ugandan Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party, attend his campaign caravan ahead of the general elections in Kampala, Uganda December 15, 2025. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa/File Photo

Censorship concerns rise as Uganda blocks live coverage of election protests

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AI to unlock new possibilities in imaginative storytelling

5 Jan 2026

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Global ad market growth to accelerate, Big Tech takes market share

18 Dec 2025

Omnicom's restructure: Who's in and who's out

Omnicom's restructure: Who's in and who's out

3 Dec 2025

Elon Musk launches AI-powered Grokipedia to rival Wikipedia

Elon Musk launches AI-powered Grokipedia to rival Wikipedia

30 Oct 2025

Source: © 123rf A new CMO Council thought leadership programme with Zeta Global, engages senior marketers in a benchmarking process to determine their company’s level of digital marketing maturity, organisational capacity and performance predictability

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11 Sep 2025

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Wan-Ifra launches expert panel to guide the news industry

30 Jun 2023

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Effective Use of Tech winners announced for Warc Media Awards 2019

22 Jan 2020

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Media: How to protect your phone from spyware

11 Nov 2019

Hamza Idris (left), an editor with the Daily Trust newspaper, sits with colleague Hussaini Garba Mohammed in their office in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, in February 2019. The office was raided in January by the military, who seized 24 computers. Credit: CPJ/Jonathan Rozen.

Nigerian military targeted journalists' phones, computers with "forensic search" for sources

Jonathan Rozen 30 Oct 2019

A police van is seen in Alexandria, Egypt, on September 27, 2019. Security forces recently arrested and allegedly tortured journalist Esraa Abdel Fattah. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh.

Egyptian journalist Esraa Abdel Fattah arrested on false news charges

16 Oct 2019

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Facebook expands fact-checking to further countries in Africa

8 Oct 2019

Solomon Serwanjja.

BBC Komla Dumor award for Ugandan journalist

30 Sep 2019

Eloine Barry, CEO African Media Agency.

African Media Agency partners with USAfrica Expo

11 Sep 2019

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How Uganda is using old and new laws to block activists on social media

Ronald Kakungulu-Mayambala 10 Sep 2019

Internet shutdowns and the future of democracy in Africa

Internet shutdowns and the future of democracy in Africa

3 Sep 2019

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Fresh vigilance is needed to protect media freedom across Africa

Jeff Conroy-Krutz 2 Sep 2019

Mo Abudu.

Mo Abudu: Woman of many firsts

Phindile Xaba 21 Aug 2019

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PAMRO student bursaries announced

20 Aug 2019

Freelance journalist Erick Kabendera, who is detained in Tanzania. Credit: CPJ/Jamii Forums.

Tanzania switches track, charges Kabendera with economic crimes

7 Aug 2019

A local market in Dar es Salaam, pictured in May. A group of armed men forcefully took an investigative journalist, Erick Kabendera, from his home outside the city on July 29. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Said Khalfan.

Journalist Erick Kabendera abducted in Tanzania

30 Jul 2019

Sipromad takes over Pan-African channel Africanews

Sipromad takes over Pan-African channel Africanews

15 Jul 2019

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Africa media innovators can apply for Google funding

2 Jul 2019

Tiso Blackstar Group sells media, broadcast and content businesses

Tiso Blackstar Group sells media, broadcast and content businesses

28 Jun 2019

CPJ joins call for UN to scrutinise human rights situation in Eritrea

CPJ joins call for UN to scrutinise human rights situation in Eritrea

14 Jun 2019

Nigerian journalist Jones Abiri, left, and Alagoa Morris, pictured in Abuja after Abiri's release from detention in 2018. A court on May 22, 2019 charged Abiri on three counts and ordered him detained. Credit: CPJ/Alagoa Morris.

Re-arrest of editor Jones Abiri in Nigeria

27 May 2019

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IDG appoints Turn Left Media as Africa representative

23 May 2019

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