The big debate: Did the Sunday Times cross a line with Nando’s #rightmyname campaign?
The Nando's #rightmyname campaign run in the Sunday Times last weekend has shown the need for a bigger conversation around ...
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Tag: media ethics
Sunday Times dismisses political reporter as MP granted leave to appeal single aspect of Ombud ruling
The Sunday Times has confirmed a political reporter has been dismissed following disciplinary process as head of Press Council appeals ...
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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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Does the mass media need to dumb down?
There was a time, decades ago, when the rule of thumb for mass media in South Africa was to produce ...
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Journalism in the age of lying
More and more, in this country and in many others, journalism is becoming contested terrain. More and more often a ...
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What is news in the 21st century?
When celebrated media and communication theorist Dennis McQuail proposed in 1992 that news was a selective, socially manufactured product with ...
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