A comprehensive recent report, Weaponising the Law: Threats to Media Freedom in South Africa, paints a sobering picture of our current landscape: 50 percent of surveyed journalists in South Africa have faced legal threats directly linked to their reporting.
South Africa’s newsrooms no longer look like they did under apartheid. By 2018, women made up 49% of staff across media houses, with big players such as Media24 (57%), Tiso Blackstar (54%), and the SABC (50%) reporting female-dominated workforces. The transformation by race has also been significant: black journalists now form the majority in most newsrooms.
South African media publications are strained and under-resourced and democracy suffers this most.
fray College and Africa No Filter have partnered to develop a guide for African journalists covering elections.
Some stories can unravel and others have a dead-end. It’s important to know when to keep going and when to stop.
Travel journalism can be challenging and before stepping into this world of wander, travel and journalism, it’s important that you think through all the possible scenarios.