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How Cell C is showing up for South Africa’s youth: You’ve got the idea. We’ll give you the tools

How Cell C is showing up for South Africa’s youth: You’ve got the idea. We’ll give you the tools

Cell C 3 days

Source: © First Post One of Al Jazeera’s most recognisable faces in Gaza, journalist Anas al-Sharif has died following a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City on Sunday evening

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif dies in Israeli attack

World News Day 2025 will take place on 28 September (Image supplied)

World News Day 2025: Journalism makes a difference

7 Jul 2025

Source: © BBC The BBC is the most trusted international news provider amongst all audiences as well as the UK’s most recognised cultural export internationally

BBC the UK's most trusted news provider internationally

13 May 2025

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Source: © UNESCO
This year, World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, will focus on the profound influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on journalism and media under the theme: Reporting in the Brave New World – The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Press Freedom and the Media

World Press Freedom Day 2025: The impact of AI on media and press freedom

2 May 2025

Source: © BBC The BBC Board has identified serious flaws in the making of the programme Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone

BBC News takes full responsibility for Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone shortcomings

3 Mar 2025

Source: © The Economic Times President-elect Donald Trump is making a U-turn on banning TikTok in the US

Trump's U-turn on the banning of TikTok

Danette Breitenbach 2 Jan 2025

Source: © Cottonbro Studio There is uncertainty for advertisers on TikTok as the platform's future hangs in the balance with Trump’s return to power

Uncertainty for TikTok advertisers with Trump’s return to power

8 Nov 2024

Source: © 123rf A handbook has been published ahead of the US elections as a resource for newsrooms worldwide to battle fake news

Newsroom blueprint to combat AI and fake news published ahead of US elections

4 Nov 2024

Source: © VOA News Meta will ban RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads

Meta bans Russia state media across all platforms as “covert influence” operations threaten US election

Danette Breitenbach 17 Sep 2024

Palestinian AFP photojournalist Mahmud Hams was awarded the Visa d’Or News prize for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza (Image supplied)

Palestinian photojournalist Mahmud Hams awarded Visa d'Or for powerful Gaza war coverage

9 Sep 2024

This year a new campaign, Choose Truth, created by South Africa's Daily Maverick, will be featured for World News Day (Image supplied)

South Africa's Daily Maverick's Choose Truth campaign for World News Day

12 Aug 2024

Image supplied. Carlos Fernando Chamorro, editor-in-chief of Confidencial (Photo: Mick Friis)

Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro awarded Wan-Ifra's Golden Pen of Freedom

31 May 2024

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Montana set to be first US state to ban TikTok on personal devices

18 May 2023

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Russia arrests The Wallstreet Journal reporter on spying charge

31 Mar 2023

Source: © Alexandr Rozhkov

Assange's unconditional release called for by R2K

5 Jan 2022

The One Club's Right the Ratio 2021 Summit to advance industry gender equity

The One Club's Right the Ratio 2021 Summit to advance industry gender equity

21 Apr 2021

Jess Weiner, CEO of Talk to Jess

#Loeries2020: The business of belonging and how inclusivity can evolve a brand (part one)

Jessica Tennant 18 Nov 2020

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Wan-Ifra backs call for UN investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's murder

2 Oct 2019

The Golden Pen of Freedom award. © .

Jamal Khashoggi awarded Golden Pen of Freedom

3 Jun 2019

Gillette's 'We Believe' ad receives mixed feedback

15 Jan 2019

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Safety of journalist features at WAN-IFRA Congress

29 May 2015

Washington Post reporter faces spy trial in Iran

21 Apr 2015

Jailed journos: Greste freed, now for Fahmy and Mohamed

Jailed journos: Greste freed, now for Fahmy and Mohamed

2 Feb 2015

L to R: Media veteran Zubeida Jaffer; journalist Terry Bell; Brandan Reynolds, Argus cartoonist; Farid Sayed, Muslim Views editor.

Have we left the media freedom debate too late?

Leigh Andrews 22 Jan 2015

The Egyptian authorities have a simple choice... (Image: Associated Press)

Baa-a-d-d sheep... Egypt slammed for 'sham trial'

2 Jan 2015

The three defendants pictured here during their trial; the trial and its outcome have been slammed as a sham by the international community and media. (Image: Extracted from YouTube)

Egypt court to hear jailed Jazeera reporters' appeal

31 Dec 2014

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US snooped on Muslim-American leaders: report

11 Jul 2014

This report comes out of Washington DC. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Verizon data queries nearly 150,000 in 2014

10 Jul 2014

Camille Lepage: "An exceptional girl" who wanted to be "a witness to people that are not talked about and who are in danger". (Image extracted from Vimeo video)

UN condemns killing of French journalist in CAR

15 May 2014

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