Mofokeng went on to complete his PhD in 2025 with his thesis, Sol T. Plaatje’s Ink: Exploring the nascent Setswana public ...

Editor Jonathan Ancer told the closing day of the Power Reporting Workshop held in Johannesburg recently that the relationship between the two was like a “rocky marriage†.

The Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) has launched Amplify South Africa, a mentoring, capacity strengthening and grant funding program to help independent media organisations build their ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism is delighted to announce the availability of 12 health reporting grants of US$2,000 each, open to all investigative journalists based in Africa. Follow the steps below ...

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 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 ...

The International Association for Literary Journalism Studies invites submissions of original research papers, abstracts for research in progress and proposals for panels on Literary Journalism for ...

All South African and South African-based journalists are invited to submit entries for the 2025 Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism. The award recognises outstanding examples of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, the Wits Centre for Journalism conducted a baseline survey into the safety of local and community journalists in Southern and East Africa. Led by WCJ lecturer Dr Nechama Brodie with ...

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 ...