SANEF described the attempt by Independent Media to smear journalists reporting on the failed Sagarmatha listing as using 'stratcom' tactics as a ‘sad day’ for SA journalism. Read more
Independent Media is embroiled in a number of legal challenges, some launched by the company itself and others by those suing it for damages over stories published in it various titles. Webb... Read more
Independent Media, several of its editors and its so-called ‘Journalism Intern Investigative Unit’ are being sued for defamation, in the amount of R2-million, by three journalists and a poli... Read more
OPINION: In the three years since the Sekunjalo Group’s successful bid to acquire and run Independent Media, a concerted campaign of sabotage through misinformation and destabilisation has b... Read more
Much of the best investigative journalism today is being produced by Naspers reporters – one thinks about the role that Erika Gibson of Beeld played in documenting the escape from South Afri... Read more
To those of us who worked at the SABC in the John Vorster and PW Botha eras, what is happening now at the SABC feels distinctly familiar – as I pointed out in an article on the Biznews... Read more