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True value: How a team rallied around to distribute a local newspaper

Posted By: Yvonne van Colleron: April 03, 2020In: Newspapers

By now we all know the feeling – the coronavirus feeling. When President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the lockdown on the evening of 23 March, it shook me. But it was only the following day bac... Read more

How South Africa’s newsrooms are dealing with reporting on coronavirus

Posted By: Glenda Nevillon: April 02, 2020In: Press

Journalists are listed as essential workers during South Africa’s lockdown. As such, reporters are working among all South Africans and pursuing stories related to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Why Africa’s journalists aren’t doing a good job on COVID-19

Posted By: George Ogolaon: March 27, 2020In: Press

How can African journalism negotiate its place – and the continent’s interests – in the global COVID-19 news narrative? Read more

Lockdown: why the media provides a critical service in times of crisis

Posted By: Gayle Edmundson: March 25, 2020In: Press

Now is the time to support ethical, expert reporting as we face the consequences of the rapidly spreading pandemic. Read more

Independent Media does have a complaints process but…

Posted By: Glenda Nevillon: March 17, 2020In: Press

Independent Media does have an internal complaints procedure, despite resigning from the South African Press Council, and installing its own ombud. Read more

John Liebenberg: masterful photographer of life and war in southern Africa

Posted By: Patricia Hayeson: March 11, 2020In: Press

South African photojournalist John Liebenberg is best known for his remarkable body of work in Namibia, especially the period of the late 1980s when the country headed towards its United Nat... Read more