The Botswana government has amended the controversial Criminal Procedure and Evidence (Controlled Investigation) Bill which is legislation journalists feared would muzzle free speech and tighten the vice on the press.
Women and gender non-conforming media professionals remain the most vulnerable to sexual harassment in the workplace as they are three and a half times more likely to experience harassment than men.
In 2021 African journalists faced several challenges such as arbitrary attacks and arrests, increased digital proliferation and disinformation.
Each week, frayintermedia highlights a journalist doing good work on the continent and honours them as our #FaveOfTheWeek. Meet award-winning Malawian editor and 2021 WAN-IFRA Women in News Editorial Leadership Award Laureate Edyth Kambalame who is passionate about storytelling empowering women.
Tailored AI strategies by editors could see newsrooms collaborate in order to elevate their storytelling and improve efficiencies. This was the consensus during the “Kickstarting the AI Journey as a Small Newsroom” session at this year’s Journalism AI Festival.