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Music tool: Siya Mthembu says society’s anxiety around AI reflects a long history of fear surrounding new technologies.

Can you hear the difference? AI music challenges the meaning of authenticity

AI is transforming music production, but growing concerns over transparency, artistry, and human creativity are reshaping the future of the industry

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

AI didn’t kill writing — we did

How AI writing tools, especially ChatGPT, are changing the rhythm, tone and even punctuation of our prose, one em dash at a time

A collection of South African newspapers. (File photo)

Press council expels Independent Media for not complying with rulings

The newspaper group, which includes Independent Media, IOL and African Community Media, refused to retract an article about one journalist and apologise to another

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Response to the falsehoods about the M&G in Sanef’s media ethics and credibility report

Media houses holding each other to account is essential to a working democracy, but false claims serve only to undermine that goal

Sympathy-privilege is a reality. If you have the right aesthetic or social positioning you can have multiple chances to re-enter the moral community with a clean slate. (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Who decides who is eligible for forgiveness and rehabilitation?

We should give people second chances. But we need to reflect on whether a black or brown person would survive a fake cancer scandal

Journalists are bound by a code of ethics

HuffPost blog prejudicial, not hate advocacy

The press ombud erred in his finding on the article calling for white men’s disenfranchisement.

Altered vision: The media’s freedom is guaranteed

Letters to the editor: February 27 to March 5 2015

Readers are divided about President Zuma and have their say about patriotism and Nkandla.

Remember that you, too, have to die, Mr President

The ANC has demonstrated an extreme intolerance to criticism, which suggests Jacob Zuma should be reminded of his own mortality.

Battle over old-age home reveals media power

A careful telling of media stories is essential for ensuring that the people involved have a fair voice.

Zuma and Nkandla: It’s impossible to fix a damaged reputation

Jimmy Manyi questions whether the public should know what is in Madonsela’s provisional report. Julie Reid says the M&G had no choice but to publish.

Oscar Pistorius: Dominated the news headlines

On loving Oscar Pistorius: Are the media going too far?

Media coverage of the Pistorius trial is close to breaking constitutional principles. But can journalists be charged for reporting leaked evidence?

Police testimony at the Marikana commission of inquiry has continued amid an atmosphere of volatility and outrage at behind-the-scenes peculiarities.

Sensationalist reporting obscures complexity behind the violence

Not since the xenophobic attacks of 2008 have South Africa’s underlying and unresolved patterns of violence burst as clearly into the open.

Reporters sans frontières activists in France demonstrate outside the Syrian embassy.

SA has shown it can walk a fine line between opposites

It’s an equation that the world’s democracies know to be true, open governments, open economies and open societies flourish, writes Donald Gips

Bias and unfairness work against media freedom and do not qualify to be called ethical or objective journalism

Principles to protect African journalism

If we don’t want unethical behaviour to infect African journalism, we should urge media houses to embrace the AMI Principles, says Guy Berger.

Judge M&G’s standards for yourself

The new <i>M&G</i> code sets out the paper’s aspirations and aims, and brings it up to speed with the times.

Mail & Guardian Editorial Code of Ethics

As the Mail & Guardian and its staff, we commit ourselves to the highest standards of independent journalism.

Precedents opened the door to the media

Precedents opened the door to the media

But the jury is out on whether journalists should be allowed access to the AWB leader’s murder trial, reports Glynnis Underhill.

It’s in our interest to foster a culture of honest reporting

President Jacob Zuma should be grateful to Stephen Robinson.

BBC fined over Fawlty Towers actor prank calls

Britain’s media watchdog fined the BBC £150 000 on Friday over the ”grossly offensive” prank calls made to actor Andrew Sachs .

A cup of cold tea with no sympathy please

Pearlier Joubert on Steve Hofmyer, the magazine editor he humiliated with a cold cup of tea and the spat that ensued.