The Covid-19 pandemic has led to widespread disinformation circulating on social media globally. This includes false information about the virus, its origins and possible cures for the disease it causes...
Herman Wasserman & Dani Madrid-Morales 7 Apr 2021
A study to analyse global markets in the aftermath of Covid-19, shows that South Africa has raised red flags, along with the US, Brazil, Turkey, Russia, and Central and Southern Europe
A recent report by an independent panel on the ethics and credibility of South Africa's news media makes for worrying reading...
Herman Wasserman 24 Feb 2021
Mike McCarthy, executive vice president and general manager of CNN International, shares insights on the future of CNN, Trump, social media and fake news...
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
Looking to the year ahead, we expect the most common form of attack - phishing emails - to increase in both volume and sophistication...
Anna Collard 20 Jan 2021
The South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) is deeply concerned about the high level of misinformation, fake news and disinformation relating to Covid-19 and to vaccination...
Vaccine hesitancy is a severe threat to global health, according to the World Health Organisation. The term refers to the delay in acceptance or the refusal of vaccines, despite the availability of vaccination services. It's a serious risk to the people who aren't getting vaccinated as well as the wider community...
Don't be a moegoe: solidarity's Covid ads funny and on point; Belligerent Santam is hung out to dry in the court of public opinion...
Brendan Seery 22 Dec 2020
Vaccine hesitancy is a severe threat to global health, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
Steven Lloyd Wilson & Charles Shey Wiysonge 4 Dec 2020
Three vaccine breakthroughs have sparked hope that the end of the Covid-19 pandemic is close. But vaccinating tens of millions of South Africans is going to be difficult...
James Stent & Nathan Geffen 27 Nov 2020
This week, Bronwyn Williams has been reading Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events by Nobel Prize winner, Robert J. Shiller...
Bronwyn Williams 20 Nov 2020
In four years, South Africa's fastest-growing positive news platform has become a global movement for social good. Through our stories, we are building communities, changing lives and delivering return on investment...
Amy Pieterse, Issued by Ginkgo Agency 18 Nov 2020
Today's world is characterised by the availability of information, but with this easy access comes the risk of misinformation and disinformation sending DIY knowledge-seekers astray...
Schalk van der Merwe 23 Oct 2020
Why you should consider transitioning your audience engagement and management to your own private platform...
Issued by Fabrik 13 Oct 2020
The drastic changes in ways of working have led to several new cybersecurity risks and threats...
Jared Naude 12 Oct 2020
Politics editor Thabo Leshilo asked the Anton Harber, the veteran South African journalist, editor and journalism professor at the University of the Witwatersrand to provide the highlights of his new book: For the Record: Behind the Headlines in an Era of State Capture...
Anton Harber 18 Sep 2020
Referring to Peter Pomerantsev's This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, Bronwyn Williams explains why the only way to regain trust and truth in society is for individuals themselves to realise that the price of freedom of speech and free flowing information is a personal responsibility...
Bronwyn Williams 31 Aug 2020
Kim Furman, Synthesis marketing manager writes that fake news might be an old-world problem but there are new world solutions to tackle it...
Kim Furman 11 Aug 2020
In case 2020 wasn't dystopian enough, hackers on July 15 hijacked the Twitter accounts of former President Barack Obama, presidential hopeful Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian and Apple, among others...
Laura DeNardis 21 Jul 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated very clearly the importance and reliability of traditional mass media while at the same time showing up the flaws and dangers of online social platforms...
Chris Moerdyk 21 Jul 2020
Forensic cybersecurity is a business imperative for content producers says Howard Plaatjes, CEO of AYO Technology Solutions...
Howard Plaatjes 14 Jul 2020
The 22nd Encounters South African International Documentary Festival will be held online and at selected cinemas in Johannesburg and Cape Town from 20 to 30 August 2020...
When it comes to fighting Covid-19 in Africa, the internet and social media have been a double-edged sword. But concerns about misinformation extend beyond the Covid-19 crisis...
Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz 3 Jun 2020
Social media has proven to be a devastatingly effective spreader of false information, far faster and to a far wider audience than was ever possible before...
Issued by Ogilvy South Africa 19 May 2020
Governments across the world are responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Alongside the mountain of related challenges, fake news has become a source of frustration. Some are now referring to this fake news phenomenon as a 'disinfodemic'...
Ashwanee Budoo 18 May 2020
In uncertain environments like this, trust in institutions - businesses, organisations, and governments - becomes even more critical. Strong leadership and decisive action are needed to earn that trust and shape our post-crisis future...
Karena Crerar 23 Apr 2020
With a rapid shift to remote work for so many South African companies, work styles have also shifted. One of the biggest changes has been how we meet...
Government has set-up a hi-tech monitoring and evaluation platform in an effort to ramp up state capacity to monitor and respond to misinformation and fake news proliferating during the Covid-19 outbreak...
'The plethora of fake news sites, and a wealth of disinformation that is almost as virulent as the disease gripping the globe, highlights the necessity for brands now to rethink their message - and the platforms they share it on.'...
Gayle Edmunds 15 Apr 2020
Wan-Ifra is concerned over a new proposed media bill threatening freedom of expression in the Ukraine...
A 55-year-old Durbanville man and a 23-year-old man from Tshwane are among the people facing the full force of the law for spreading fake news about the Covid-19 crisis...
In an open letter published over the weekend, Wan-Ifra president, Fernando de Yarza López-Madrazo, has called for short-term financing to overcome the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus. ...
Your data is now everywhere. Your phone. Your smartwatches. Your smart home. And if something goes just a little bit wrong...
Marco Preuss 27 Mar 2020
Sanef says it's committed to assisting government to communicate information pertaining to the spread and containment of the Covid-19 and ensuring the safety of journalists covering the disease...
The latest technology is now being used to verify content and spot fakes...
Craig Lebrau, Issued by Lebrau Press 24 Feb 2020
The media continues to be plagued by trust issues, particularly in developed countries. In South Africa, trust in the media declined further in 2019 according to the recently launched Edelman Trust Barometer...
Claire Densham 18 Feb 2020
Let's face it. Social media marketing is in a constant state of change and advertising has become more and more challenging...
Julia Rhodes 29 Jan 2020
When social media appeared in the 2000s it saw the emergence of a whole new digital industry. Many believe that the public relations industry was caught unawares and that they struggled to catch up with the initial opportunities. It is now critical that we prepare for the new wave of changes upon us...
Francois van Dyk 19 Dec 2019
Gartner revealed its top strategic predictions for 2020 and beyond...
A threat to democracy, discourse, to truth; 'fake news' has become the buzzword of the last few years...
Molly Fitz-Patrick, Issued by Red & Yellow 2 Sep 2019
There's been a surge in measles cases across Europe, putting people's lives at risk according to new findings from the World Health Organisation...
Sarah Pitt 2 Sep 2019
Publishing platforms offer a rare opportunity to communicate effectively, writes PRC CEO Josephine Buys...
Josephine Buys 29 Aug 2019
There is growing concern about the potential for the message and media sharing platform WhatsApp to undermine democracy in a number of countries across the world...
Nic Cheeseman 29 Jul 2019
Local publishers, Caxton, Media24, TisoBlackStar, The Daily Maverick and TheSouthAfrican have collectively established a partnership with an Australian video company, Oovvuu, and have now launched a new and inventory-rich video private marketplace, in a first for South African digital advertising...
This National Child Protection Week (CPW), Google South Africa and Media Monitoring Africa hosted a roundtable putting a spotlight on the importance of online safety for children...
Jessica Tennant 31 May 2019
Wan-Ifra has released a new report that looks at the global map of remedies adopted by governments whose objective is to combat the disinformation crisis, though with extremely diverse intent and effects...
The accuracy of reporting on China's involvement in Africa can be "deeply misleading". What needs to be done to fix it...
Yu-Shan Wu 30 Apr 2019
South African media has been criticised on social media for its initially superficial and underwhelming coverage of the massive floods in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in the wake of the devastating Tropical Cyclone Idai...
Glenda Daniels 27 Mar 2019
Democracy and social progress die without science and fact-based knowledge. Science and facts are the foundational basis for rational and logical disputation and the possibility of reaching some truths. Fake news, on the other hand, is a calculated assault on democratic freedoms...
Tawana Kupe 25 Mar 2019