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World News Day 2025 will take place on 28 September (Image supplied)

Media Freedom

World News Day 2025: Journalism makes a difference

7 Jul 2025

Entries for Nat Nakasa Awards now open

Media Freedom

Entries for Nat Nakasa Awards now open

4 Jul 2025

Reflections on World Press Freedom Day amid rising online attacks on journalists

Media

Reflections on World Press Freedom Day amid rising online attacks on journalists

Issued by Media Development and Diversity Agency 3 Jul 2025

Daily Maverick has won Best Digital Product. Source: Daily Maverick.

Media

Daily Maverick wins most Innovative Digital Product at Wan-Ifra's Digital Media Awards

7 May 2025

Source: © UNESCO
This year, World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, will focus on the profound influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on journalism and media under the theme: Reporting in the Brave New World – The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Press Freedom and the Media

Media Freedom

World Press Freedom Day 2025: The impact of AI on media and press freedom

2 May 2025

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

Source: © RSF The BBC World Service has filed an urgent appeal to UN over abuse of national security and counter-terrorism laws against BBC News Persian journalists

Media Freedom

BBC World Service files urgent appeal to UN over abuse of BBC News Persian journalists

17 Apr 2024

Source: © Twitter The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) commemorated Black Wednesday (19 October 1977) with a fundraising dinner addressed by Mpho Makwana, outgoing Eskom Board chairman and sponsored by Absa

Media Freedom

Sanef commemorates Black Wednesday, raises R2m for media freedom

23 Oct 2023

Social Media

'Outright lie': India denies Dorsey's claims it threatened to shut down Twitter

Kanishka Singh, Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Aditya Kalra, Simon Cameron-Moore, Raju Gopalakrishnan 13 Jun 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: © IOL eSwatini has recently been rocked by pro-democracy protests which have steadily intensified

Media Freedom

Media freedom in Esawtini declines further as Swaziland News and editor announced as terrorists

Aphiwe Kunene 25 Jul 2022

Source: ©Reporters without borders Journalism is under digital siege and physical threat. In May 14 journalists were arbitrarily detained by the authorities of Somaliland

Africa Month

#AfricaMonth: African media renaissance needed

Danette Breitenbach 18 May 2022

Source: © Siam Pukkato

Media Freedom

South African journalism under siege

Danette Breitenbach 4 May 2022

Source: © Unesco World Press Freedom Day looks to restore public trust in journalists and journalism

Media Freedom

#WorldPressFreedomDay: Restoring public trust in journalism

Zubeida Jaffer 3 May 2022

As press freedom continues to struggle in Kenya, alternatives keep hope alive

Media Freedom

As press freedom continues to struggle in Kenya, alternatives keep hope alive

Wambui Wamunyu 3 May 2021

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Media Freedom

'Troubling' erosion of press freedom in certain SADC states

19 Aug 2019

Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed Mkhaitir.

Social Media

Mauritanian blogger freed after being held for nearly six years

5 Aug 2019

Image credit: Juliana Malta on Unsplash

Media Freedom

Wan-Ifra explores how news media is adapting business models to promote press freedom

22 Jul 2019

Ethiopians read newspapers in Addis Ababa on June 24. Following what the government refers to as a failed attempted coup, access to the internet was cut and journalists were arrested. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Tiksa Negeri.

Media Freedom

In era of reform, Ethiopia still reverts to old tactics to censor press

Muthoki Mumo 10 Jul 2019

#CannesLions2019 Print & Publishing Lions' Grand Prix winner: An-Nar's 'The Blank Edition' by Impact Porter Novelli Dubai.

Cannes Lions

#CannesLions2019: Print & Publishing Lions winners!

17 Jun 2019

RIP Raymond Louw

Media Freedom

RIP Raymond Louw

5 Jun 2019

Ugandan pop star and opposition figure Bobi Wine appears for his bail application via a video link from prison, on a television screen in a court in Kampala, Uganda, on May 2, 2019. Uganda's media regulator suspended staff from 13 broadcast outlets for covering his arrest. Credit: CPJ/AP/Ronald Kabuubi.

Media Freedom

Ugandan regulator suspends staff from 13 outlets that covered Bobi Wine

10 May 2019

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during a press conference in Addis Ababa, in August 2018. Since Abiy's election, conditions for Ethiopia's journalists have improved, but some challenges remain. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Michael Tewelde.

Media Freedom

How the media is faring in Ethiopia

Muthoki Mumo 7 May 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Media Freedom

A mixed bag of media freedom in southern Africa - SAEF

3 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

Research

What the world's journalists think of Julian Assange

2 May 2019

Ugandan journalists sit outside the office of the Daily Monitor, which was closed by armed police. The Monitor's website was recently ordered to suspend publication over a regulatory dispute. (Isaac Kasamani/AFP)

Media Freedom

Uganda regulator threatens news website

14 Feb 2019

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

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

Free course: Working towards a free, independent African media

Media

Free course: Working towards a free, independent African media

17 Sep 2018

#StateoftheMedia: Episode 1

BizTakeouts

#StateoftheMedia: Episode 1

1 Jun 2018

R2K reflect on issues affecting the media on World Press Freedom Day

Media Freedom

R2K reflect on issues affecting the media on World Press Freedom Day

3 May 2018

#WorldPressFreedomDay: Freedom to do journalism

Media Freedom

#WorldPressFreedomDay: Freedom to do journalism

Guy Berger 3 May 2018

The World Press Freedom Index 2017 by .

Fairness First

#FairnessFirst: Grave press freedom violations in Africa

Leigh Andrews 9 Apr 2018

Facebook, Google warn Singapore against 'fake news' law

Social Media

Facebook, Google warn Singapore against 'fake news' law

23 Mar 2018

Singapore launches public hearings on 'fake news'

Media

Singapore launches public hearings on 'fake news'

15 Mar 2018

Hundreds protest Morocco trial of journalists

Media

Hundreds protest Morocco trial of journalists

29 Jan 2018

Marcos Vizcarra ©

Media Freedom

Mexican journalist wins Peter Mackler Award for Courageous & Ethical Journalism

24 Aug 2017

Biniam Simon of Radio Erena.

Radio & Audio

Eritrean radio station gets award

13 Jun 2017

Radio & Audio

Madagascar targets Radio Jupiter

19 May 2017

Côte d'Ivoire's new media bill criminalises press offences

Media

Côte d'Ivoire's new media bill criminalises press offences

16 May 2017

Al-Jazeera English suspended in South Sudan

Media

Al-Jazeera English suspended in South Sudan

15 May 2017

Media Freedom

Media under gun in Africa

Shenaaz Jamal 4 May 2017

Cameroon reporter Ahmed Abba given 10-year prison sentence

Media

Cameroon reporter Ahmed Abba given 10-year prison sentence

4 May 2017

Media

Media freedom award winners announced

26 Apr 2017

Angola: new media law threatens free speech

Media

Angola: new media law threatens free speech

1 Dec 2016