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The latest media figures show that women are slowly advancing, but their experiences tell of little change at the top
As quickly as populist alliances form so do they unravel, according to Ernesto Laclau’s political philosophy theory
Forty years ago the apartheid regime crushed the free press. Today, the media industry is better off but it’s in a mess
The media is playing its part in trying to make the powerful and corrupt account to the people of South Africa
"Censorship strategies include repression 2.0, masked political control and technology capture"
I marched and got the true picture first-hand, not from propaganda or social media’s limited view
Regulating the internet and social media, as the ANC would like to do, would be overreach and inconsistent with the characteristics of a democracy.
The world is deep in the throes of a disinformation era through fake news, alternative facts and post truth.
Those exposed of wrongdoing by vigilant reporters are exploiting the distrust and doubt that misinformation engenders.
Retrenchments, the threat of a media tribunal, a new Bill and mergers bode ill for newsrooms.
Citizens need to know how to source reliable information to advance their freedoms.
Reporting is essential in a democracy but police and demonstrators don’t always see it that way.
We should be overjoyed that the focus is on women, but the way the media deals with this is generally underwhelming.
A series of seminars and two conferences look at how the media should deal with hate speech, writes Glenda Daniels.
The public broadcaster ought to be just that, but its new policies are infringing on our democracy, writes Glenda Daniels.
There has been transformation in the fourth estate, particularly in terms of the state of newspapers and radio since apartheid, writes Glenda Daniels.
Independent journalism is integral to a thriving democracy and we can’t lie down whenever those in power would seek to mute it, argues Glenda Daniels.
Newspapers have to creep out of their comfort zones to service an ever-growing platform-agnostic readership.
The ANC’s proposed media appeals tribunal is just another way to entrench sunshine journalism.
Glenda Daniels asks if it is the adoption of English that gives us the "grammar" of colonialism.
