South Africa's journalism schools have joined the movement to keep the country's media and information environment free.
More than a dozen schools signed a Journalism Educators' statement, released on Monday, which rejects the trilogy -- the medi...
Thirty years ago this month, six security police arrested a journalism lecturer at Rhodes University. They held him incommunicado and interrogated him at ungodly hours. Seven months later followed a two-year jail sentence for membership and furtherin...
Most media responses to the ANC's recently released discussion document have come out fighting.
The particular target is the proposed media appeals tribunal, a body that would give ruling party the final say over what the press can publish.
A...
It was topsy-turvy at two conferences in Johannesburg last week. What you'd expect was not what happened:
Delegates at the event convened by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) concentrated on ... broadcasting.
Those attendi...
Strangely, at a time when South Africans are beginning to benefit from better and cheaper broadband connectivity, our communications regulator is toying with the idea of licensing online video.
The notion smacks of institutional self-interest, of ...
David Coetzee isn't a fraction as famous as his novelist brother JM. Yet he's a clear example of how an individual life, despite being out of the limelight, can nevertheless be of tremendous significance.
This emerged from tributes paid to th...
"We needed it [this fund] back in 2002," said Gugulethu Moyo, new director of the Media Legal Defence Initiative, referring to the Mugabe government's suppression of the Daily News eight years back.
The company owning the paper still sat with...
No one has come out shining in the mud-slinging around the SABC, but the biggest loser is the autonomy of communications.
This has been paralleled by a similar song-and-dance in parliament, in regard to the broadcasting regulator, the Independent ...
The shockwaves of collapsing newspapers in the US have startled everyone around the world, not least the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
It's a body which represents some 600 000 media staffers across 120 countries. Or so it di...
The crisis of the US newspaper industry is what broadcasters are going to experience. Plunging audiences and collapsing advertising revenues. And it's also coming to South Africa.
That's the prognosis of Wits digital arts professor Christo Doherty...
Guy Berger is a media academic/activist. He writes a fortnightly column at www.mg.co.za/converse and is active in the South African National Editors' Forum. He also blogs about teaching journalism and new media. Find his research online and micro-blogging from conferences at http://www.twitter.com/guyberger
