Intense invective: The media’s role in political dirty tricks
SA is taking lessons from politicians and the media in the US in terms of the intensity of vicious backstabbing, ...
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Verashni Pillay opens up about her hate speech appeal victory
The Press Ombudsman’s hate speech ruling against former Huffington Post South Africa editor Verashni Pillay has been set aside by an ...
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The inside story of the Shelley Garland scandal
Just over three months ago, what was supposed to be a slow-moving Easter weekend was disrupted by a contentious blog ...
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Emily Bell: Journalism in the age of Trump and the real-time social web
This is an edited extract of the 2016 A. N. Smith Lecture in Journalism, delivered by Emily Bell, the founding ...
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The state of South African journalism: There’s good news and there’s bad news
Wits University’s Journalism and Media Studies Department has just published their latest State of the Newsroom report. The annual publication ...
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Faking it: Good news or bad news?
Fake news is a term on everybody’s lips, thanks to President Donald Trump. But it has also opened a window ...
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