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    #FairnessFirst: The media industry needs your support

    The global pandemic has certainly shifted business as usual, with increased pressure on media organisations to provide a trusted and reputable source of information while having to get creative in cutting costs and selling to advertisers...

    By Jessica Tennant 6 Apr 2020

    Dion Chang, founder of Flux Trends.
    #BizTrends2020: The politics of rage; the quest for middle ground

    By the end of 2019, the rising anger around the globe was palpable, as were the divisions that fuelled the rage...

    By Dion Chang 6 Jan 2020

    The panel was moderated by Francis Herd. The panellists included Carol Mohlala, Phatiswa Magopeni, Philip Schworbel and Siyabonga Africa. © Goethe-Institut South Africa. Taken by Judit Hoffkamp.
    Future of Journalism: Media funding crisis runs deep

    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...

    By Danette Breitenbach 23 Sep 2019

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    Of foxes and paradoxes in the media henhouse

    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...

    By Derek Abdinor 17 Sep 2019

    On the humanisation of black stories in 2019
    On the humanisation of black stories in 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...

    By Rebone Masemola 15 Jan 2019

    #NewCampaign: All you people, this ad's for you
    #NewCampaign: All you people, this ad's for you

    Nando's' new ad highlights the ways in which South Africans typically stereotype one another and the inherent hypocrisy that comes with that, with uniquely local scenes of people pigeonholing one another...

    By Jessica Tennant 26 Nov 2018

    Jennifer Thomas is an assistant professor in the department of media, journalism, and film at Howard University. © .
    The best of times and the worst of times for journalism

    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...

    By Juanita Pienaar 14 Nov 2018

    Media activist Angela Quintal reported to be safe
    Media activist Angela Quintal reported to be safe

    Media activist and former South African journalist and editor, Angela Quintal, has been interrogated in Tanzania...

    By Louise Burgers 8 Nov 2018

    A South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta: When Daphne met Dropbox
    A South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta: When Daphne met Dropbox

    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...

    By Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 2 Nov 2018

    A South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta: Sign 'O' the Times
    A South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta: Sign 'O' the Times

    This month's anniversary of Maltese journalist-blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination has undammed a flow of reportage, ruminations and reminiscences...

    By Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 19 Oct 2018

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    A South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta: Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

    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...

    By Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 7 Sep 2018

    A South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta: Birds do it, bees do it
    A South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta: Birds do it, bees do it

    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...

    By Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 31 Aug 2018

    How to deal with the troll armies
    How to deal with the troll armies

    Reporters Without Borders has recommended that media organisations and journalists around the world strengthen training in digital security in the face of increasing cyberviolence...

    By Louise Burgers 31 Jul 2018

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    A South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta: The Daphne impact

    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...

    By Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 20 Apr 2018

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    Did Barack Obama really say 'Stay woke, bitches' in this viral video?

    "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...

    By Andy Walker 19 Apr 2018

    The world is 'still waiting for a women's revolution' - Zineb El Rhazoui
    The world is 'still waiting for a women's revolution' - Zineb El Rhazoui

    Late last year, Saudi Arabian women were granted the right to obtain a driver's licence...

    By Danette Breitenbach 3 Apr 2018

    Media freedom, a personal freedom
    Media freedom, a personal freedom

    Media freedom is a right of all South Africans and not a limited mandate of editors and journalists...

    By Danette Breitenbach 22 Jan 2018

    Eyewitness News reporter Gia Nicolaides.
    #BizTrends2018: Information overload - finding the 'right' kind of news

    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...

    By Gia Nicolaides 8 Jan 2018

    The Gathering 2017 Media Edition.Credit: Ashraf Hendricks, GroundUp.org.za.
    How to save SA from state capture and media elitism

    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...

    By Louise Burgers 4 Aug 2017

    Luke McKend. Credit: Ashraf Hendricks, GroundUp.org.za
    Fake news is ‘weaponised social media'

    Fake news is the new battleground for media freedom as social media is “weaponised” for propaganda purposes and fake news...

    By Louise Burgers 3 Aug 2017

    Joe Thloloe
    Media freedom is a cornerstone of democracy

    Anti-media rhetoric is fuelling violence against journalists across South Africa, The Gathering 2017 Media Edition, presented by The Daily Maverick, heard...

    By Louise Burgers 3 Aug 2017

    Journalist and political commentator, Max du Preez
    Has SA finally hit the reset button?

    This country is never boring. Where else in the real world does the skinniving, intrigue and corruption offer more plot twists than Game of Thrones?

    By Nicci Botha 14 Jun 2017

    SA's anti-piracy startup Custos raises $420k from TIA
    SA's anti-piracy startup Custos raises $420k from TIA

    Stellenbosch-based bitcoin bounty startup Custos Media Technologies has raised another round of funding, this time from South Africa's Technology Innovation Agency...

    By Tom Jackson 30 Aug 2016

    Publish and be damned in name of patriotism
    Publish and be damned in name of patriotism

    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...

    By Anton Harber 24 Apr 2015

    The images we were allowed to see... Zuma speaking before an orderly house. (Image: GCIS)
    One step forwards, one back for democracy

    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...

    By Anton Harber 2 Mar 2015

    Janine Lazarus
    The script of the Western news media

    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?...

    By Janine Lazarus 4 Feb 2015

    Anton Harber
    Serial - A murder investigation...

    An experimental US serial has transformed investigative journalism...

    By Anton Harber 2 Feb 2015

    Zuma should bash on regardless, suggests the writer. (Image: GCIS)
    Let's encourage Zuma to bash whites

    I am all in favour of President Jacob Zuma continuing his sniping campaign against whites and blaming everything on apartheid...

    By Chris Moerdyk 29 Jan 2015

    Anton Harber
    Editors must edit without fear of being attacked

    I once asked a South African editor why he ran a cartoon that he agreed was offensive. He said he had felt obliged, as he did not want to censor a well-known and much-respected cartoonist...

    By Anton Harber 16 Jan 2015

    Peter Mann
    Networks' coverage of Paris terror attacks was a hopeless failure

    Am I the only one who thinks that global media coverage of the Paris outrage sucked? (video)...

    By Peter Mann 13 Jan 2015

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