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Honoris South Africa students shine at the 2025 Loeries Awards

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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

11 Aug 2025

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

World News Day 2025: Journalism makes a difference

7 Jul 2025

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Ugandan journalist Gloria Laker Adiiki Aciro is pictured on the left. Source: Peace News.

Ugandan journalist wins 2025 Luxembourg Peace Prize

14 Jul 2025

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All about YOU! Putting YOU in YOUth Month on Biz!

Bizcommunity.com 20 May 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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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

Source: © 123rf TrustList is a home-grown new digital initiative that aims to protect media buyers and brands by providing real-time warnings against placing programmatic advertising on 'red-listed' online media

TrustList: Real time warning against programmatic advertising placement on 'red-listed' online media

DY/DX 27 Nov 2023

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Nigeria's Zamfara state orders media to close for covering political rally

Garba Muhammad 17 Oct 2022

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Meta has 7 days to comply with Kenya's cohesion watchdog

1 Aug 2022

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Assange's unconditional release called for by R2K

5 Jan 2022

WAN-IFRA announces New Media Freedom Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa

WAN-IFRA announces New Media Freedom Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa

27 Jan 2021

#LockdownLessons: Companies putting the grit in integrity

#LockdownLessons: Companies putting the grit in integrity

Bizcommunity.com 26 May 2020

The Best of Biz: Marketing & Media 2019

#BestofBiz 2019: Marketing & Media

17 Dec 2019

The Best of Biz: Marketing & Media Africa 2019

#BestofBiz 2019: Marketing & Media Africa

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

People take part in a parade to mark the 24th self-declared independence day for the breakaway region of Somaliland in the capital Hargeisa on May 18, 2015. On November 18, 2019, Somaliland police shut down a TV station and arrested its editor. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Feisal Omar.

Somaliland police shut down Horn Cable TV, arrest its editor

21 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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Media: How to protect your phone from spyware

11 Nov 2019

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Journalists at risk ahead of unity government in Sudan

5 Nov 2019

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Unlocking the web's untold censorship stories

Madeline Earp 31 Oct 2019

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