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Through interviews and behind-the-scenes discussions, Spotlight Theatre Talk explores the people and processes that bring productions to life

Joburg Theatre launches podcast to take audiences behind the curtain

Through interviews and behind-the-scenes discussions, Spotlight Theatre Talk explores the people and processes that bring productions to life

Africa’s expanding digital economy raises questions about online access

Across Africa, the rapid growth of digital connectivity is reshaping economies, industries, and everyday life. From mobile banking in Kenya to tech startups in Nigeria and South…

Digital storytelling, particularly via social media, helps indigenous communities preserve and share their knowledge and histories, fostering decolonisation

Digital storytelling can contribute to indigenous knowledge

Digital storytelling, particularly via social media, helps indigenous communities preserve and share their knowledge and histories, fostering decolonisation

Athandiwe Saba

Athandiwe Saba appointed as deputy editor of the Mail & Guardian

Athandiwe Saba joins a leadership team headed by Ron Derby, who was appointed editor-in-chief of the 36-year-old publication in May this year

With the help of an aware and critical audience, they must monitor themselves and one another, as they have done in the past. (Gemma Ritchie/M&G)

How — and how not — to restore trust in media

In an age of unprecedented access to information, people must improve their media literacy. But that does not let media organizations off the hook

Inspirational: Matthew Buckland was a much-loved friend and colleague and a well-respected leader in the field of journalism. (Image via VentureBurn)

Digital pioneer whose kindness stood out

Matthew Buckland, 1974-2019

Buckland studied journalism at Rhodes University and completed a Harvard Business School executive education course for future leaders. (Twitter)

Digital pioneer Matthew Buckland dies

​Digital news entrepreneur Matthew Buckland has died at age 45

At the core of Trump’s message to his raucous, adoring supporters is the now near daily warning that America is literally under attack from an “invasion” of illegal immigrants. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)

BuzzFeed story, video prompt media soul-searching, Trump attacks

Two events have been latched upon by US president Donald Trump to bolster his long-standing grievance that the press is biased against him

Graffiti showing faces of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, former Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Mussa and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq (Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images)

Digitalisation has reduced the costs of doing business in public, private sectors

Technology provides African governments with new, efficient ways to deliver services

Iraq has more than 15 000 digital storefronts on Facebook and Instagram, said an IT professional familiar with the country’s digital economy. (Reuters)

Chinese-style ‘digital authoritarianism’ grows globally — study

The annual Freedom House study of 65 countries found global internet freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2018,

Former New York Daily News editorial staff members Carla Roman (L) and Reggie Lewis depart the newspaper’s Manhattan office after reports that the paper was reducing its editorial staff by some 50% (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

Ailing US newspapers feel new pain from newsprint tariffs

As newspapers reel from the current economic landscape, many have already been making hefty newsroom cuts

‘The crisis of land in South Africa is of historical origin. Although

Cinema in Africa makes a ‘third-reel comeback’

In many countries south of the Sahara, digital technology, strong investment and modern theatres are bringing about a major revival of movie-g

Design dilemma: Architect

Fak’ugesi digifest’s for everyone

Don’t be put off if you’re a novice to all things digital. It’s a great place to explore, experiment and learn

The likeness of Donald Trump stands inside of a themed fortune telling machine in Columbus Circle in New York

Editorial: Clickbait a scourge of digital news era

Faustian bargains are the order of the day when producing news.

Afropolitanism: Africans get their knowledge the traditional way but they are now being exposed to more images

​The digital age erases the divide between humans and objects

Africa, with its ancient conceptions of the relations between being and matter, is fertile ground for digital technologies.

Grooming journalists for the digital age

The South African media landscape, or any media landscape for that matter, is not a stagnant and stable one

Techno-fried brains

Techno-fried brains

It’s hard not to agree with the argument that digital media is making us stupid, writes <strong>John Harris</strong>.