Perfect storm of tech bros, foreign interference and disinformation
Media freedom has long been essential to healthy democracy. It is the oxygen that fuels informed debate, exposes corruption and ...
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Tag: media freedom
South Africa’s media have done good work with 30 years of freedom
In 1992, two years before the end of apartheid, Nelson Mandela bemoaned the state of South Africa’s print media. He ...
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Most media outlets ‘speak to the interests of social and political elites’
It is an unfortunate reflection on the quality of debate in Parliament that real political life in South Africa is ...
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#Impunity Day: new data shows disturbing trends in media attacks ahead of elections
New data published by UNESCO to coincide with the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists shows that attacks and ...
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Data shows media freedom is challenged worldwide
Threats against media are increasing, with methods designed to silence and intimidate the press targeting individual journalists, pressuring editorial independence ...
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Independent journalism is a public good. We must work together to protect it
In a defining paradox of our time, Covid-19 has simultaneously driven an acute need for accurate information and a thirst ...
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