This article was first published by African Free Press, a publication of Media Institute of Southern Africa. It is based on a body of work developed to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration for the Development of a Free, Independent and Pluralistic Press. For more information visit whk25.misa.org. By Dumisani Moyo Community radio stations have […]
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Dr Admire Mare, Namibia University of Science and Technology and Dumisani Moyo, University of Johannesburg New digital technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp have significantly shaped news production, distribution and consumption practices around the world. This has led to changes in the ways in which news is gathered by citizens and professional journalists […]
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The detention of Ugandan journalist Solomon Serwanjja and his BBC colleagues by police has stoked debate about the role and ethics of investigative journalism. Serwanjja and journalists from the BBC were working on an exposé about government drugs that are stolen and sold in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and in private health […]
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