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Lesley Visser is a trailblazer for women in media and sports.

Media

Trailblazer Lesley Visser to receive 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award at New York Festivals

20 Feb 2025

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Media & Entertainment Law

PoPIA v press freedom: SA court to decide on HIV disclosure case

Ahmore Burger-Smidt 6 Feb 2025

Image supplied. Carlos Fernando Chamorro, editor-in-chief of Confidencial (Photo: Mick Friis)

Media Freedom

Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro awarded Wan-Ifra's Golden Pen of Freedom

31 May 2024

Ladina Heimgartner elected new President of WAN-IFRA on May 27. Source: Supplied.

Media

Ladina Heimgartner elected president at World News Media Congress in Copenhagen

28 May 2024

Media Freedom

2 Tunisian journalists jailed pending trial, bolstering fears for free speech

Tunisian newsroom 16 May 2024

Source: Royal Television Society Over 300 BBC World Service journalists - around 15% - work in exile

Media Freedom

Media Freedom: BBC's World Service Presents highlights journalists forced to work in exile

6 May 2024

Media

Tunisia jails journalist Mohamed Boughalleb for 6 months

Tarek Amara 18 Apr 2024

Source: RVI Sanef and Standard Bank find common ground on Daily Maverick issue

Media Freedom

Standard Bank apologises to Daily Maverick, meets with Sanef

26 Sep 2023

Media Freedom

Congolese government will closely follow case of detained journalist -spokesperson

Alessandra Prentice 15 Sep 2023

Media Freedom

Myanmar photojournalist sentenced to 20 years of hard labour

8 Sep 2023

Source: © African Development Bank Group Harare, Zimbabwe. Sanef has joined the global media community of journalists, expressing their concern on media freedom in the run-up to the Zimbabwe elections

Media Freedom

Sanef joins international call for media freedom in run up to Zimbabwe elections

21 Aug 2023

Source: © Wikimedia Zimbabwean authorities on Thursday deported four regional democracy activists on arrival at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport

Media Freedom

Zimbabwe elections: Journalists barred and democracy activists deported

18 Aug 2023

Source: © Unesco The 2023 Unesco / Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize has been awarded to three imprisoned Iranian women journalists

Media Freedom

Unesco/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize awarded to 3 imprisoned Iranian women journalists

3 May 2023

Source: United Nations The Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards spotlight the continent and African journalists

Media Freedom

Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards to spotlight the continent and African journalists

3 May 2023

Source: © Pixabay A Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change report analyses the online conversation around recent EFF’s National Shutdown

Social Media

Social media report on the EFF National Shutdown

31 Mar 2023

Media

Reporters from independent Egyptian news outlet referred to trial

Aidan Lewis, Marguerita Choy 1 Mar 2023

Media

Prominent Cameroon journalist found dead after abduction

Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Edward McAllister, William Maclean 24 Jan 2023

Source: © Siam Pukkato

Media Freedom

South African journalism under siege

Danette Breitenbach 4 May 2022

Wan-Ifra Women in News Editorial Leadership Award names laureates

Media

Wan-Ifra Women in News Editorial Leadership Award names laureates

12 Nov 2021

Energy and Africa Month unite: Public Sector Leaders (PSL) May edition out now

Magazines

Energy and Africa Month unite: Public Sector Leaders (PSL) May edition out now

Issued by Topco Media 19 May 2021

Media

Wan-Ifra joins the Washington Post Press Freedom Partnership

5 Jan 2021

CPJ deepens database of attacks on the press

Media Freedom

CPJ deepens database of attacks on the press

Elana Beiser 12 Nov 2019

Mahlatse Mahlase delivering her speech at the Sanef Black Wednesday Dinner. Image credit: Sanef.

Media Freedom

#BlackWednesday: Sanef chair Mahlatse Mahlase calls on journos to continue to fight for media freedom

21 Oct 2019

Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during a ceremony marking the reopening of the Eritrean Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 16, 2018. A recent thawing of relations between the two countries did not lead to improved conditions for the media in Eritrea. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Tiksa Negeri.

Media Freedom

10 most censored countries

13 Sep 2019

A police officer is seen in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on May 16, 2016. Police in Hargeisa recently arrested Horyaal 24 TV owner Mohamed Osman Mireh. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Mohamed Abdiwahab.

Media Freedom

Somaliland police raid Horyaal 24 TV offices

11 Sep 2019

Media

Cape Town Press Club welcomes new committee

16 Jul 2019

The National Assembly is seen in Abuja, Nigeria, on August 7, 2018. Authorities recently announced strict new requirements for obtaining press credentials to cover the assembly. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde.

Media Freedom

Nigeria's restrictive new press accreditation process

28 May 2019

How South Africa ranks in the press freedom stakes

Media Freedom

How South Africa ranks in the press freedom stakes

Glenda Daniels 3 May 2019

A Tanzanian shoe-shiner conducts his business underneath an election poster for then ruling party presidential candidate, and later president, John Magufuli, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on October 27, 2015. On March 28, 2019, the East African Court of Justice found that multiple sections of Tanzania's Media Services Act restrict press freedom. Credit: CPJ/AP Photo/Khalfan Said.

Media Freedom

Tanzania media laws violate press freedom

1 Apr 2019

#HumanRightsDay: The human cost of journalism globally

Media Freedom

#HumanRightsDay: The human cost of journalism globally

19 Mar 2019

Port Louis remains Africa's top city in Mercer's 2019 Quality of Living Ranking

Property

Port Louis remains Africa's top city in Mercer's 2019 Quality of Living Ranking

14 Mar 2019

Calls for release of Mauritania blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed

Media Freedom

Calls for release of Mauritania blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed

6 Mar 2019

Media Freedom

Fonts For Freedom campaign creates press freedom with font reconstruction

26 Feb 2019

87% of journalists in the Middle East, Africa and Asia view the industry negatively

Research

87% of journalists in the Middle East, Africa and Asia view the industry negatively

12 Dec 2018

Jennifer Thomas is an assistant professor in the department of media, journalism, and film at Howard University. © .

Media Freedom

The best of times and the worst of times for journalism

Juanita Pienaar 14 Nov 2018

#FairnessFirst: Why investigative journalism and media freedom matters

Fairness First

#FairnessFirst: Why investigative journalism and media freedom matters

Leigh Andrews 12 Nov 2018

How the Ugandan media has borne the brunt of censorship for decades

Media Freedom

How the Ugandan media has borne the brunt of censorship for decades

Geoffrey Ssenoga 8 Oct 2018

Tanzanian police stand guard outside a vote counting center at a school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on October 28, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Khalfan Said/CPJ.

Media

Human rights, media freedoms being violated in Tanzania

22 Aug 2018

Kenya's cybercrimes law restricts media freedom

Media

Kenya's cybercrimes law restricts media freedom

21 May 2018

Kenyan president should not sign cybercrime bill into law

Digital

Kenyan president should not sign cybercrime bill into law

15 May 2018

#OFFinJoburg: Many a bumpy road ahead remains on Africa's long walk to democracy

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

#OFFinJoburg: Many a bumpy road ahead remains on Africa's long walk to democracy

Sindy Peters 23 Mar 2018

Kenyan journalists feel heat of Government pressure

Media

Kenyan journalists feel heat of Government pressure

Sam Otieno 19 Mar 2018

Wan-Ifra calls for nominations for new Women in News Editorial Leadership Award

Media

Wan-Ifra calls for nominations for new Women in News Editorial Leadership Award

14 Mar 2018

Freedom of speech under threat in Tanzania

Media Freedom

Freedom of speech under threat in Tanzania

2 Mar 2018

Egyptian public must be able to access all news sites

Media

Egyptian public must be able to access all news sites

9 Feb 2018

Kenya cuts TV transmissions over live coverage of opposition's Odinga

TV

Kenya cuts TV transmissions over live coverage of opposition's Odinga

31 Jan 2018

Safrea denounces jailing of journalists

Media

Safrea denounces jailing of journalists

Issued by Safrea 18 Dec 2017