by Des Latham | Tue, Aug, 2025 | News and Insights, Story
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.
by The Conversation Africa | Fri, Feb, 2023 | News and Insights, Story
Women need to be included in each step in the news value chain, whether in leadership, news production or consumption.
by Aphiwe Kunene | Fri, Jan, 2022 | Change voices, News and Insights, Story
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.
