Broken beats: The state of South Africa’s newsrooms
The digital revolution has forever changed the way news is sourced, distributed and consumed, and obliterated our understanding of the ...
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Local radio is plugging gaps in South Africa’s mainstream media coverage
The LocalVoices project shows up the weaknesses of mainstream media coverage, which focuses too strongly on the big names, the ...
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Hugh Lewin: South African journalist, author, militant and prisoner
Prisoner, journalist, author Hugh Lewin, who headed the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism from 1998 as its executive director ...
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Media job blood-letting
Retrenchments, retirements, purges, dismissals… there’s no doubt that jobs in the media industry have been slashed over the past couple ...
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The ‘disrupted’ state of our newsrooms… and news
Last year’s debut State of the Newsroom report postulated that South Africa’s media landscape was a “leaky ship facing strong ...
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