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New York Festivals (NYF) Storytellers Gala have announced the 2025 TV & Film Awards award winners and the 2025 Radio Awards winners, with South Africa winning six awards, three for TV & Film and three for Radio (Image supplied)

Film & Cinematography

6 awards for SA at New York Festivals 2025 TV & Film and Radio Awards

23 May 2025

Media Freedom

Burkina Faso suspends more foreign media over killings coverage

Alessandra Prentice 29 Apr 2024

Source: Reuters. China's foreign minister, Qin Gang addresses delegates at the inauguration of the new Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, which China is building and equipping in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 11, 2023.

Economy

Africa should not be arena for international competition, says Chinese foreign minister

12 Jan 2023

Film & Cinematography

New York Festivals announces 2021 TV & Film Awards Finalists

10 Jun 2021

All the New York Festivals 2020 TV & Film Awards 2020 finalists

17 Feb 2020

Fighting breaks out as security personnel attempt to re-arrest Nigerian activist and journalist Omoyele Sowore at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria, on December 6, 2019. Sowore and other activist-journalists have been jailed in Nigeria and Ethiopia amid a crackdown on free expression. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde.

Media Freedom

Nigeria and Ethiopia jail activist-journalists amid crackdown on free expression

Muthoki Mumo and Jonathan Rozen 11 Dec 2019

Film & Cinematography

DISCOP Joburg announces changes for 2020 edition

2 Dec 2019

Four Iwacu journalists, from left, Térence Mpozenzi, Agnès Ndirubusa, Christine Kamikazi, Egide Harerimana, and their driver, Adolphe Masabarikiza, are detained in Burundi. Credit: CPJ/Iwacu Media.

Media Freedom

Burundi police arrest Iwacu journalists covering unrest

28 Oct 2019

Media

Africa's journalists trained in migration reporting

27 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.

Media Freedom

Cameroon's military detains pidgin news anchor Samuel Wazizi

15 Aug 2019

Libreville, Gabon, is seen on January 16, 2017. The country's media regulator recently suspended two newspapers over defamation claims. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Mike Hutchings.

Media Freedom

Gabon media regulator suspends two newspapers over defamation claims

22 May 2019

A radio station is seen in Bujumbura, Burundi, on March 19, 2015. Burundi authorities recently banned the BBC and suspended VOA from broadcasting within the country. Source: CPJ.

Media Freedom

Burundi media regulator bans BBC and VOA

11 Apr 2019

Labour Law & Unions

The Google walkout is a watershed moment in 21st century labour activism

Michael Walker 8 Nov 2018

Mining

Bauxite mining boom in Guinea threatens locals

17 Oct 2018

Media Freedom

Burundi bans BBC, VOA ahead of May 17 referendum

9 May 2018

Media

Cameroon: Media defies ban on political debate

16 Mar 2018

Finalists for NYF TV & Film Awards announced

12 Feb 2018

Agriculture

Southern Africa battles armyworm invasion

Lameck Masina 23 Jan 2017

Media

Angola: new media law threatens free speech

1 Dec 2016

Media

Expanding BBC to launch news service for North Koreans

17 Nov 2016

Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

Indian scientists create device to collect solar energy more efficiently

Lindsay Samson 8 Sep 2016

Media Freedom

US calls for Ethiopia to free jailed journos

31 Dec 2015

Social Media

'Social media threat to conventional journalism'

Maryam Ahmadu-Suka 21 Jul 2015

Radio & Audio

Ebizradio.com aims across Africa with Tuluntulu

19 May 2015

New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards announces 2015 awards ceremony presenters and e-programme

8 Apr 2015

Mobile

Mobile music channel from West Africa

6 Mar 2015

Health & Social Welfare

Africa United features new Ebola prevention communications for West Africa

4 Dec 2014

BBC calls on authorities to stop jamming broadcasts

2 Jun 2014

Zulu TV channel for sub-Saharan Africa

25 Sep 2013

Environment & Natural Resources

Booming Zimbabwe tobacco sector, massive deforestation: causes for concern

Tariro Kamuti 26 Jul 2013

Media

Winners of Discovery Health Journalism Awards announced

31 May 2013

Media

Health journalists finalists await results end May

14 May 2013

Biz Lounge

Soul Of Fire

Eugene Yiga 10 Dec 2012

Media Freedom

World Press Freedom Day: Sanef voices concerns for SA media

3 May 2012

Branding

Glowing press for Zuma's SONA

Issued by Ornico 22 Feb 2012

Media Freedom

Angola tense as journalists, protesting youth targeted by government

Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia 1 Nov 2011

Media Freedom

Angola: Tensions rise, journalists attacked at protest

Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia 8 Sep 2011

Media

Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards 2011 finalists announced

9 May 2011

Media Freedom

Ethiopia should allow German broadcasts - CPJ

12 Apr 2011

Media Freedom

Somalia arrests Shabelle staffers over insecurity report

29 Mar 2011

Media Freedom

Angolan journalist gets year in prison for defamation

4 Mar 2011

Media

POI dancing and a little Brinkmanship

28 Oct 2010

Media

Alphabet Soup wins Voice of America

28 Sep 2010

Media

Rwanda shuts 30 media outlets

4 Aug 2010

Media

Rwandan journalist shot dead

29 Jun 2010

Media

Ethiopia expels US journalist reporting in rebel area

22 Jun 2010

Two Ethiopian state TV journalists under arrest

3 May 2010

Radio & Audio

Somalia: Radio music banned

15 Apr 2010

Radio & Audio

VOA news broadcasts jammed in Ethiopia

8 Mar 2010

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