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#EpicaAwards2019: What's new this year?

23 Sep 2019

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Video Exchange Africa at AfricaCom 2019

20 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

All the 2019 African Digital Media Awards winners

All the 2019 African Digital Media Awards winners

12 Sep 2019

Eloine Barry, CEO African Media Agency.

African Media Agency partners with USAfrica Expo

11 Sep 2019

Andrew Human to leave the Loeries

Andrew Human to leave the Loeries

Loeries 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

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ANA News to scale back SA operations

9 Sep 2019

Police officers are seen in Lagos, Nigeria, on August 5, 2019. Lagos police recently arrested publisher Agba Jalingo, who has been charged by federal authorities with treason. Credit: CPJ/AP/Sunday Alamba.

Nigerian publisher charged with treason

9 Sep 2019

The statue of founding president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere in Tanzania’s political capital Dodoma. Credit: WikiCommons.

Why Tanzania's attacks on free speech break with Nyerere's legacy

Nick Westcott 4 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

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Western media, Chinese media... where is African media?

Zubeida Jaffer 30 Aug 2019

Empowering news organisations through technological innovation

Empowering news organisations through technological innovation

Louise Marsland 28 Aug 2019

Media training in Chad.

Africa's journalists trained in migration reporting

27 Aug 2019

Protesters from two of Benin's unions take part in a demonstration after the parliament approved a law restricting to 10 days public sector employees’ right to strike, on September 13, 2018, in Cotonou. Journalist Ignace Sossou convicted of false news in Benin on August 12, 2019. Crdit: CPJ/AFP/Yanick Folly.

Journalist Ignace Sossou convicted of false news in Benin

27 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

Andrea Opoku, director and Africa ambassador for Women in Marketing.

#FairnessFirst: The power of women in influencer marketing

Leigh Andrews 26 Aug 2019

Piwe Motshegoa, head of sales: general entertainment at DStv media sales. Image via Al Nicoll © via Gallo Images.

#Loeries2019: Africans aren't just swimming with the creative sharks, we are the sharks

Leigh Andrews 23 Aug 2019

Sphelele Mjadu, Unilever Personal Care Senior Public Relations Manager for Africa and Anne Githuku-Shongwe, representative of UN Women South Africa’s Multi-Country Office, in the UN Women-Dove masterclass panel at the Loeries. Image via Al Nicoll © via Gallo Images.

#Loeries2019: Our responsibility of better representation in advertising, media

Leigh Andrews 23 Aug 2019

The Loeries' Game and Dion Wired 'What do CMOs really want' masterclass panel. Image via Al Nicoll © via Gallo Images.

#Loeries2019: What do CMOs really want from their agency?

Leigh Andrews 23 Aug 2019

Mo Abudu.

Mo Abudu: Woman of many firsts

Phindile Xaba 21 Aug 2019

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Guinea media leader arrested

21 Aug 2019

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PAMRO student bursaries announced

20 Aug 2019

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'Troubling' erosion of press freedom in certain SADC states

19 Aug 2019

Media trip to AHIF event sponsored by APO

Media trip to AHIF event sponsored by APO

19 Aug 2019

Asha Ranchhod Patel, head of marketing at Google South Africa.

#Loeries2019: Tackling unconscious bias, raising jurors' cultural awareness

Leigh Andrews 16 Aug 2019

A Cameroonian elite Rapid Intervention Battalion member walks along an empty street in the city of Buea in Cameroon's Anglophone southwest region on October 4, 2018. Cameroon’s military detained pidgin news anchor Samuel Wazizi on August 2, 2019, in Buea. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Zohra Bensemra.

Cameroon's military detains pidgin news anchor Samuel Wazizi

15 Aug 2019

A man looks at newspaper front pages in Dakar, on February 25, 2019, one day after Senegal's presidential elections. Senegalese authorities arrested critical journalist Adama Gaye on July 29. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Seyllou.

Senegalese authorities arrest critical journalist Adama Gaye

14 Aug 2019

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