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
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
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
Zimbabwe remains on a knife edge as political uncertainty reigns and state television is under the control of the military...
Louise Burgers 15 Nov 2017
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
