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Going undercover as a crown prince to negotiate with rebels armed to the teeth is just the tip of Mount Kilimanjaro as far as the daring stuff Anas Arameyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye team get up to is concerned. 

When they investigated what eventually became the documentar...

Somalia ranks as the top country with unresolved journalist killings according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) Global Impunity Index 2019 released on October 29 2019. 
 

The index is based on CPJ data on journalists murdered with complete impunity between...

Open source investigator at BBC Africa Eye Ben Strick says the important thing about The Anatomy of a Killing is that it shows the power of collaboration across departments and professions. 

“A lot of the time people silo information and keep it to themselves. We reache...

Deputy Reserve Bank Governor Kuben Naidoo spoke at the South African National Editors’ Forum function commemorating Black Wednesday held in Johannesburg on October 18 2019. 

Reflections on the value of the media’s victories 42 years since Black Wedne...

India's indigenous languages and ancient traditional skills are at risk of extinction, but it's not too late to save them. This is what Palagummi Sainath, the founder of People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) aim to do. According to him, public institutions in India ar...

Sexual abuses are in the headlines again, with West African universities rocked by the #SexForGrades expose and the #MeToo movement finally making landfall in India at the start of October. Closer to home, revenge porn, or the distribution of nudes and other sexually e...

In September 1997 Juby Mayet testified at the special hearings for media at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The TRC hearings, which started in 1996, were South Africa’s attempt at national reconciliation after years of bitter conflict. The hearings were...

An investigation into potential breach of privacy rights affecting almost seven million Nigerians by the TrueCaller mobile app is underway, but this is not the first time that the app's data collection activities has been red flagged....

Gaps in Africa’s internet governance and online rights took centre stage at the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa. The event, which was hosted by Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa, ran from 23 to 26 September in Addis Ababa, Ethio...

Phathiswa Magopeni has a bold vision for South Africa's embattled public broadcaster - and for all other African news services. Magopeni is the Group Executive of News and Current Affairs at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

The news service should have...

Africa’s media landscape has undergone substantial changes. These changes and how the industry and its revenue practices should adapt to them formed the basis of the conversation at WAN-Ifra's 2019 Digital Media Africa conference that was held in Sandton, Johannesburg,...

Fears are mounting that authorities will detain Nigeria-based news site Cross River Watch's Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Agba Jalingo for another 90 days.

According to Mia Malan, health journalism has always been a hard sell. Malan is editor-in-chief and executive director of Bhekisisa Centre for Healthcare Journalism, and says stories on healthcare are often marginalised in a traditional news environment because they ar...

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The latest stringent judicial controls issued against two Guinean journalists is a form of illegal judicial harassment. This according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), after Souleymane Diallo, the director of Lynx-Lance Media Group based...

The spotlight is on gender parity, pay gaps and structural inequality as South Africans observe Women's Month. The media industry is not immune to the challenges faced by women, both in South Africa and globally.  

Representation in media and media organisations ma...