by tshepo | May 20, 2021 | Featured, News
Wits Journalism’s popular skills courses have been reconfigured in the light of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. Usually offered in a block-release format (two weeks full-time) during the mid-year break, they will now be offered on a blended basis. This means...
by tshepo | Apr 15, 2021 | Featured, News
News24 journalists Jeff Wicks and Kyle Cowan have won the 2020 Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism, the country’s largest journalism prize. They won it for Killing Kinnear, their ground-breaking investigation into who killed the section commander of Cape...
by tshepo | Dec 9, 2020 | Featured, News
The media landscape in sub-Saharan Africa has shifted considerably over the last ten years, as have the training needs of journalists who now have to report on more complex issues, often using advance digital skills for research and data gathering. But how has...
by tshepo | Nov 25, 2020 | Featured, News
The latest State of the Newsroom, 2019-20: Before/After is now available online. This is the sixth report of its kind to be published by Wits Journalism, and chronicles the ups and downs of South Africa’s media industry together with a few deeper dives into...
by tshepo | Apr 16, 2020 | Featured, News
Chair of the South African Editor’s Forum and editor for Eyewitness News in South Africa, Mahlatse Mahlase, Africa Check chief editor, Lee Mwiti and director at First Draft News Claire Wardle were in conversation with head of Wits Journalis, Prof Franz Kruger...
by tshepo | Mar 27, 2020 | Featured, News
Dear students, partners and colleagues As we prepare for the national lockdown, I am writing to update you on some actions we have taken in response to the crisis, and what we intend to do going forward. Our basic approach is to accept that the current...
