Last year I predicted that "at the dawn of this new decade it is clear that traditional print publishing as we know it will never return to the glory days of record-breaking advertising revenue and circulation."...
Josephine Buys 29 Jan 2021
By the end of 2019, the rising anger around the globe was palpable, as were the divisions that fuelled the rage...
Dion Chang 6 Jan 2020
Media funding is not only about finance; it is about media freedom. This makes the current problems around funding in journalism a crisis. This was the topic of the second in the Future of Journalism Series held at the Goethe-Institut...
Danette Breitenbach 23 Sep 2019
Future historians may well scramble to understand what was going on at the Media Freedom Conference in London and the simultaneous Social Media summit at the White House (held earlier this year in July). They will surely be confounded by media policy in the post-broadcast era by looking at these two events. And they will struggle to reconcile what is claimed to be policy against what is actually practised on the ground...
Derek Abdinor 17 Sep 2019
As a consumer of local content in 2019, I am ready to see bodies of work that focus on the humanisation of black characters with well-rounded lives that are not solely centred around tried and tested concepts of tragedy, trauma and beating the odds...
Rebone Masemola 15 Jan 2019
Jennifer Thomas, an award-winning, veteran American broadcast journalist, was invited by the United States Embassy (South Africa) to address the Cape Town Press Club on media coverage of elections in the age of fake news late last month...
Juanita Pienaar 14 Nov 2018
Media activist and former South African journalist and editor, Angela Quintal, has been interrogated in Tanzania...
Louise Burgers 8 Nov 2018
For a nation-state marked in the recent past by the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on an island that is positioning itself as the future blockchain capital of the world, it was inevitable that both these strands would come together at some point...
Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 2 Nov 2018
This month's anniversary of Maltese journalist-blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination has undammed a flow of reportage, ruminations and reminiscences...
Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 19 Oct 2018
At the end of August, I wrote that Malta has no hate crime on the statute books. A week later, an initiative has been launched aimed at tackling the proliferation of hate speech and bringing together a basic understanding of the dangerous discourse that has swamped social media...
Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 7 Sep 2018
The Catzavelos hate speech case prompted Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster to investigate whether hate crimes exist on the Maltese islands and his findings may surprise you...
Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 31 Aug 2018
Reporters Without Borders has recommended that media organisations and journalists around the world strengthen training in digital security in the face of increasing cyberviolence...
Louise Burgers 31 Jul 2018
You may not have heard of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who was murdered six months ago, but Meryl Streep certainly has and it would not surprise me if the Oscar winner optioned DCG's story...
Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 20 Apr 2018
"Thank you. And stay woke, bitches," is not a quote you'd normally attribute to former US President Barack Obama. But filmmaker Jordan Peele just made this a reality, by using intelligent visual trickery...
Andy Walker 19 Apr 2018
Late last year, Saudi Arabian women were granted the right to obtain a driver's licence...
Danette Breitenbach 3 Apr 2018
Media freedom is a right of all South Africans and not a limited mandate of editors and journalists...
Danette Breitenbach 22 Jan 2018
If you heard the news today, it's because you chose to. It doesn't mean that you and I have consumed the same news and even if we have, the information and our level of engagement may be different...
Gia Nicolaides 8 Jan 2018
Critical questions about SA's political future, media and its sustainability, and how to combat the fake news scourge, were all addressed at the Daily Maverick's The Gathering 2017 series...
Louise Burgers 4 Aug 2017
Fake news is the new battleground for media freedom as social media is “weaponised” for propaganda purposes and fake news...
Louise Burgers 3 Aug 2017
Anti-media rhetoric is fuelling violence against journalists across South Africa, The Gathering 2017 Media Edition, presented by The Daily Maverick, heard...
Louise Burgers 3 Aug 2017
Stellenbosch-based bitcoin bounty startup Custos Media Technologies has raised another round of funding, this time from South Africa's Technology Innovation Agency...
Tom Jackson 30 Aug 2016
After being stalked down a street, taunted and hit with a wrench, Emmanuel Sithole was cornered by his attackers, stabbed in the heart on a rubbish-strewn Alexandra street. He was from Mozambique...
Anton Harber 24 Apr 2015
If journalists in Zimbabwe had stood up in that country's parliament to protest against interference with their cellphone signals, they would have been laughed out of the place...
Anton Harber 2 Mar 2015
Are African lives worth a whole lot less than the lives of people in other parts of the world? But more to the point, are African journalists doing a better job than their Western peers in covering the continent?...
Janine Lazarus 4 Feb 2015
An experimental US serial has transformed investigative journalism...
Anton Harber 2 Feb 2015
I am all in favour of President Jacob Zuma continuing his sniping campaign against whites and blaming everything on apartheid...
Chris Moerdyk 29 Jan 2015
