The conference theme this year is “Cross Currents and Critical Encounters.” ...

prepublication classification while still holding them accountable, writes Wyndham Hartley in Business Day. The committee heard in public hearings last week a barrage of testimony from media and media ...

AI chatbots are also emerging as an alternative news source, with 12% of younger audiences in our global sample using them to get information about current event South Africa has one of the highest ...

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) turns 30 this year: for this child of South Africa’s broadcasting reform moment in the mid-1990s, there is much to be proud of. Broadcasting itself goes ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism and African Women in Media recently hosted a webinar exploring the debates, best practices and ethical roadmaps for deploying artificial intelligence in African ...

In a population of more than 56 million, 3.3 million people in South Africa identify as disabled or as living with a disability. On an individual level, the disabilities within this community fall ...

There are a number of metrics we can use to show the success of this year’s 19th African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) and its status as the leading annual gathering of the continent’s ...

After being shortlisted for the National Arts and Culture Awards in the Outstanding Book, Non-Fiction category, the Wits Centre for Journalism is proud to report that PhD candidate Lebogang Seale’s ...

The Shadow Fleet, an investigation by Malawian journalist and 2025 AIJC Masterclass fellow Jack McBrams, has been recognised by the Global Investigative Journalism Network as one of the top ...

The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF), in proud partnership with Sanlam, invites nominations and entries for the prestigious Nat Nakasa Awards for Courageous Journalism 2026. At a time ...

Dewald van Rensburg of South African investigative journalism unit amaBhungane has won the 2025 AIJC African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award for his series of investigations titled “City of ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ), Fojo Media Institute and Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications (AKU-GSMC) are jointly supporting the development of the Africa ...