Political actors and partisan media outlets have been fomenting online violence against prominent Daily Maverick journalists, according...

In their recently published book, Tell Our Story. Multiplying voices in the news media, Julie Reid and Dale T. McKinley explore...

This is an edited extract from Tell Our Story: Multiplying Voices in the News Media by Dale McKinley and Julie Reid.   “If journalism is...

In October, those of us working in the media sector and related fields pause to remember the terrible events of Black Wednesday in 1977....

In a dumbfounding move, Independent Media last week announced that it will opt out of the Press Council system. Instead the company has...

The following is an amended version of a presentation delivered by the author for the Print Media Transformation Colloquium, 25-26 August...

Two weeks ago the Media Policy and Democracy Project launched its most recent research report, this time tackling the now thorny issue of...

The Film and Publication Board’s new Draft Online Regulation Policy has been touted as a measure to protect the children. But if the...

In South Africa, press freedom, our freedom of expression rights, and communications rights, are suffering from a disease. There are a...

On Wednesday 17 October, two days before South Africans were due to commemorate National Media Freedom Day, the SABC pulled the popular...

A recent trip to Sweden revealed a marvellous attitude to the accessibility of information – the kind of Utopian ideal that would have...

South Africa is currently preparing for a project bigger than the 2010 Fifa World Cup. It is so big that when it is all over it will have...

Anyone interested in press regulation in South Africa and media freedom in general, will be aware of the main recommendations contained...

Almost a year after the Press Council of South Africa held hearings around the country to hear what the public had to say about the...

South Africa is fighting for media freedom, but I’m not always sure why – since even when journalists have freedom in theory, they seem...

A furore has developed in South Africa in recent years over citizens’ access to information. The Protection of State Information Bill...