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#LockdownLessons: Companies putting the grit in integrity

#LockdownLessons: Companies putting the grit in integrity

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Controls to manage fake news in Africa are affecting freedom of expression

Ashwanee Budoo 18 May 2020

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Wan-Ifra concerned over proposed media bill threatening freedom of expression - Ukraine

14 Apr 2020

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#FairnessFirst: The media industry needs your support

Jessica Tennant 6 Apr 2020

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#FairnessFirst: How to end office ageism with a perennial mindset

Leigh Andrews 24 Feb 2020

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#BizTrends2020: The politics of rage; the quest for middle ground

Dion Chang 6 Jan 2020

The Best of Biz: Marketing & Media 2019

#BestofBiz 2019: Marketing & Media

17 Dec 2019

Journalist Nazli Ilicak is embraced after her release from prison in Istanbul in November 2019, after a court ordered her free on time served at a retrial. Two of her colleagues remain in prison on terrorism related charges, among the 47 journalists jailed in Turkey. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Huseyin Aldemir.

The world's worst jailers of journalists

Elana Beiser 11 Dec 2019

IPFA winners, New York.

International Press Freedom Awards announced

27 Nov 2019

Simon Dingle, in action at Catalyst Africa.

#EntrepreneurMonth: Simon Dingle on how media is being reimagined in the 21st century

Leigh Andrews 25 Nov 2019

CPJ deepens database of attacks on the press

CPJ deepens database of attacks on the press

Elana Beiser 12 Nov 2019

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#CatalystAfrica: Simon Dingle debunks fintech and cryptocurrency myths

Leigh Andrews 12 Nov 2019

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Media: How to protect your phone from spyware

11 Nov 2019

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Unlocking the web's untold censorship stories

Madeline Earp 31 Oct 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

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CPJ announces 2019 International Press Freedom Awards

23 Oct 2019

Mahlatse Mahlase delivering her speech at the Sanef Black Wednesday Dinner. Image credit: Sanef.

#BlackWednesday: Sanef chair Mahlatse Mahlase calls on journos to continue to fight for media freedom

21 Oct 2019

Know your business inside out with a Biz Office

Know your business inside out with a Biz Office

Bizcommunity.com 2 Oct 2019

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

2 Oct 2019

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Top ratings for Biz Rate Card 2019

Bizcommunity.com 27 Sep 2019

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Future of Journalism: Media funding crisis runs deep

Danette Breitenbach 23 Sep 2019

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Of foxes and paradoxes in the media henhouse

Derek Abdinor 17 Sep 2019

Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during a ceremony marking the reopening of the Eritrean Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 16, 2018. A recent thawing of relations between the two countries did not lead to improved conditions for the media in Eritrea. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Tiksa Negeri.

10 most censored countries

13 Sep 2019

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Sanef addresses recent bombardment of journalists, that P-word incident

12 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

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Spotlight on human rights in Mozambique

5 Sep 2019

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Fresh vigilance is needed to protect media freedom across Africa

Jeff Conroy-Krutz 2 Sep 2019

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#FairnessFirst: Understand true diversity to become more inclusively creative

Leigh Andrews 2 Sep 2019

BizTrends 2020: Make the vision Towards Africa 2020 possible

BizTrends 2020: Make the vision Towards Africa 2020 possible

Bizcommunity.com 29 Aug 2019

A newspaper stand is seen in Mwanza, Tanzania, on September 19, 2015. Tanzania is currently considering legal amendments that could negatively affect press freedom. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Daniel Hayduk.

Onslaught against press freedoms in Tanzania

26 Aug 2019

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