Journalism
MAHLATSE MAHLASE: If we can help SAA, we must help the SABC
This should be a seminal moment to do right by the SABC and its workers, who are central to building our nation, writes Mahlatse Mahlase.
EWN Editor-in-Chief Mahlatse Mahlase in conversation with EWN Cape Town News Editor Charlotte Kilbane, Health Journalist and Media Trainer Pontsho Pilane, and Researcher at Media Monitor Africa Azola Dayile on 'Inside EWN: The Round Table'.This week's discussion: How has South African media fared in its COVID-19 coverage?
Fewer physical press conferences, questions that must be submitted in advance or sometimes no questions at all, queries that go unanswered - information does not circulate well in the age of COVID-19.
We owe a debt of gratitude to South Africa’s hardworking and tenacious journalists, writes President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Watch the first episode of our brand new show Inside EWN -'The Round Table' with EWN editor-in-chief Mahlatse Mahlase in conversation with News24 editor-in-chief Adriaan Basson and the Sowetan editor-in-chief Nwabisa Makunga. This week's discussion is Media in Crisis - the shrinking newsroom's impact on accountability. #InsideEWN #Media
In the second hour of our inaugural live show on 702 and Cape Talk, we speak to the Sowetan's editor-in-chief, and News24's leader about the issues journalists are now facing.
The Pulitzers are generally regarded as the highest honour that US-based journalists and organisations can receive.
Historically World Press Freedom Day has been celebrated as a day where citizens, journalists and journalist organisations around the world celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom and its benefits to society.
Audiences are tuning out of the news. Not because there is a lack of interest, but rather because they simply “just can’t” anymore, writes Dustin Chick
The media industry is an essential service and will continue to work during South Africa’s lockdown period, which is expected to end at the end of April. This is how Eyewitness News’s journalists are covering the fast spreading virus. #CoronavirusSA #Lockdown #COVID19
Black Wednesday is today an important platform for discussions on media freedom and the extent to which media freedom improved from during the apartheid era.
Being a journalist is a harrowing job and sometimes needs a cold heart to deal with stories of murders and rapes. Winnie Theletsane lifts the lid on the job in the wake of the anger and grief of this week's protests against gender-based violence.
Haji Mohamed Dawjee says story telling does not come cheap, and neither does journalism.
Maxence Melo, a blogger whose critical writings of President John Magufuli have landed him in hot water, was named one of five recipients of the International Press Freedom Prize by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
The multi-award winning journalist kicked off his career in 1946 when he joined the Rand Daily Mail.
Haji Mohamed Dawjee says we need fresh minds for fresh and important coverage, but are we selling the future of journalism a lie?
A timeline plotting out the diplomatic fallout in the killing of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
'A Private War', released in US cinemas next month, chronicles the harrowing career of Marie Colvin.