“Why journalism matters. The challenges have changed, but has its core purpose?”
PIPPA GREEN SOME four decades ago, the apartheid government closed down a major black daily, The World, and detained its
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MEDIA FREEDOM
The media have muted the voices of women during COVID-19: can the tide be turned?
COVID-19 has distressed societies to the core. Among the fault lines, it has exposed is the fact that gender bias
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Media in Kenya up in arms over new curbs on media freedom
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE media industry in Kenya has raised serious concerns about new restrictions on media reporting of political
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Call for more access to information in Africa
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) has called on the 36 African countries that
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Journalism makes blunders but still feeds democracy: an insider’s view
ANTON HARBER, the veteran South African journalist, editor and journalism professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, has a new
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Egyptian TV host’s comments on hijab spark debate, probe by media watchdog
BEN BARKWAI and MENNA A FAROUK AN Egyptian TV presenter is being investigated by the country’s media watchdog after she
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Algeria upholds conviction of journalist; rights groups fear new crackdown
AN Algerian appeals court has upheld the conviction of a journalist in what rights campaigners called a new crackdown on
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Let us do what we can to ensure that the free and diverse media is able to survive and thrive – Ramaphosa
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA In many countries around the world, the coronavirus pandemic has required the limitation of many civil liberties and
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Ethiopia bars journalists from flying to Tigray regional vote -passengers
AT least 12 people, including four journalists and a senior think tank analyst, have been barred from flying to Tigray,
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How social media are levelling Kenya’s political field — and lessons learnt
SOCIAL media have opened up spaces for political candidates to engage with voters in more direct ways compared to traditional
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