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Google has built up election experience from its global operations

#SAelections24: Google steps up to safeguard voters

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Burkina Faso suspends more foreign media over killings coverageAlessandra Prentice

Image supplied. TikTok has announced several initiatives with the local electoral commission and civil society organisations to combat misinformation

#SAelections24: Initiatives to fight misinformation, provide access to reliable information launched

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Taliban arrests radio journalists for engaging with female callers - CPJ

Senegal seeks regulation deal with TikTok after ban

Senegal seeks regulation deal with TikTok after ban

Ngouda Dione 5 Oct 2023

Image supplied. The role of media monitoring in the upcoming elections is vital says Lordwish Langa, MD of CLIPTrack Media Coverage

The vital role of media monitoring in the upcoming elections

Lordwish Langa 3 Oct 2023

Burkina Faso junta suspends French magazine over 'untruthful' articles

26 Sep 2023

Source: RVI Sanef and Standard Bank find common ground on Daily Maverick issue

Standard Bank apologises to Daily Maverick, meets with Sanef

26 Sep 2023

Source: Kiara Affat, Daily Maverick On Tuesday, 19 September, security personnel at Standard Bank, manhandled Daily Maverick reporter Lerato Mutsila

Standard Bank security, Sanef Sikuvile Journalism Awards sponsors, manhandle Daily Maverick reporter

22 Sep 2023

Thabo Bester escape story wins GroundUp a Nat Nakasa award

18 Sep 2023

Congolese government will closely follow case of detained journalist -spokesperson

Alessandra Prentice 15 Sep 2023

Congo journalist detained regarding Jeune Afrique article, magazine says

13 Sep 2023

Myanmar photojournalist sentenced to 20 years of hard labour

8 Sep 2023

Political advertising makes a comeback on X

30 Aug 2023

Source: © 123rf Entries for the 22nd Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards (VJOY) open on 1 September

Get ready for the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards 2023

25 Aug 2023

Young Zimbabweans are using YouTube to ridicule politicians and educate voters

Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga 24 Aug 2023

Somalia bans TikTok, Telegram and 1XBet over 'horrific' content, misinformation

Abdi Sheikh 21 Aug 2023

Elon Musk wants to remove the block option on Twitter, now X

21 Aug 2023

Source: © African Development Bank Group Harare, Zimbabwe. Sanef has joined the global media community of journalists, expressing their concern on media freedom in the run-up to the Zimbabwe elections

Sanef joins international call for media freedom in run up to Zimbabwe elections

21 Aug 2023

Source: © Wikimedia Zimbabwean authorities on Thursday deported four regional democracy activists on arrival at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport

Zimbabwe elections: Journalists barred and democracy activists deported

18 Aug 2023

Calls for applications: Sanef announces international mentorship programme

18 Aug 2023

Source: Reuters.

Algeria bans Barbie movie, media and official source say

15 Aug 2023

Senegal blocks TikTok in widening clampdown on dissent

Ngouda Dione and Joel Kouam 3 Aug 2023

Wan-Ifra and Reporters Without Borders form committee to develop AI Media Charter

28 Jul 2023

Source: © The Reading List The cover of Freedom Writer: My Life and Times, the autobiography of legendary journalist Juby Mayet

Sanef fund to fight misinformation on journalism

Danette Breitenbach 27 Jun 2023

Image: Danette Breitenbach. All the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award 2023 winners

#SBSJA2023: All the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards 2023 winners

24 Jun 2023

Tunisian journalist detained after criticising president

Tarek Amara, Stephen Coates 21 Jun 2023

'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

eNCA celebrates 15 years today

eNCA celebrates 15 years today

eMedia 1 Jun 2023

Transparency triumphs as Concourt rules sections of PAIA, Tax Admin Act unconstitutional

31 May 2023

Lesotho imposes nationwide curfew on residents after journalist killed

19 May 2023

Tunisia police to investigate 2 top journalists, radio station says

Tarek Amara, Sonali Paul 19 May 2023

Both the Constitution and legal precedent allow journalists to publish information that is in the public interest, even if that information was obtained unlawfully. Illustration: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Can journalists publish "stolen" information?

Jacques Louw 18 May 2023

Montana set to be first US state to ban TikTok on personal devices

18 May 2023

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Senegal seeks regulation deal with TikTok after ban

Senegal seeks regulation deal with TikTok after ban

Ngouda Dione 5 Oct 2023

Image supplied. The role of media monitoring in the upcoming elections is vital says Lordwish Langa, MD of CLIPTrack Media Coverage

The vital role of media monitoring in the upcoming elections

Lordwish Langa 3 Oct 2023

Burkina Faso junta suspends French magazine over 'untruthful' articles

26 Sep 2023

Source: RVI Sanef and Standard Bank find common ground on Daily Maverick issue

Standard Bank apologises to Daily Maverick, meets with Sanef

26 Sep 2023

Source: Kiara Affat, Daily Maverick On Tuesday, 19 September, security personnel at Standard Bank, manhandled Daily Maverick reporter Lerato Mutsila

Standard Bank security, Sanef Sikuvile Journalism Awards sponsors, manhandle Daily Maverick reporter

22 Sep 2023

Thabo Bester escape story wins GroundUp a Nat Nakasa award

18 Sep 2023

Congolese government will closely follow case of detained journalist -spokesperson

Alessandra Prentice 15 Sep 2023

Congo journalist detained regarding Jeune Afrique article, magazine says

13 Sep 2023

Myanmar photojournalist sentenced to 20 years of hard labour

8 Sep 2023

Political advertising makes a comeback on X

30 Aug 2023

Source: © 123rf Entries for the 22nd Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards (VJOY) open on 1 September

Get ready for the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards 2023

25 Aug 2023

Young Zimbabweans are using YouTube to ridicule politicians and educate voters

Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga 24 Aug 2023

Somalia bans TikTok, Telegram and 1XBet over 'horrific' content, misinformation

Abdi Sheikh 21 Aug 2023

Elon Musk wants to remove the block option on Twitter, now X

21 Aug 2023

Source: © African Development Bank Group Harare, Zimbabwe. Sanef has joined the global media community of journalists, expressing their concern on media freedom in the run-up to the Zimbabwe elections

Sanef joins international call for media freedom in run up to Zimbabwe elections

21 Aug 2023

Source: © Wikimedia Zimbabwean authorities on Thursday deported four regional democracy activists on arrival at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport

Zimbabwe elections: Journalists barred and democracy activists deported

18 Aug 2023

Calls for applications: Sanef announces international mentorship programme

18 Aug 2023

Source: Reuters.

Algeria bans Barbie movie, media and official source say

15 Aug 2023

Senegal blocks TikTok in widening clampdown on dissent

Ngouda Dione and Joel Kouam 3 Aug 2023

Wan-Ifra and Reporters Without Borders form committee to develop AI Media Charter

28 Jul 2023

Source: © The Reading List The cover of Freedom Writer: My Life and Times, the autobiography of legendary journalist Juby Mayet

Sanef fund to fight misinformation on journalism

Danette Breitenbach 27 Jun 2023

Image: Danette Breitenbach. All the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award 2023 winners

#SBSJA2023: All the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards 2023 winners

24 Jun 2023

Tunisian journalist detained after criticising president

Tarek Amara, Stephen Coates 21 Jun 2023

'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

eNCA celebrates 15 years today

eNCA celebrates 15 years today

eMedia 1 Jun 2023

Transparency triumphs as Concourt rules sections of PAIA, Tax Admin Act unconstitutional

31 May 2023

Lesotho imposes nationwide curfew on residents after journalist killed

19 May 2023

Tunisia police to investigate 2 top journalists, radio station says

Tarek Amara, Sonali Paul 19 May 2023

Both the Constitution and legal precedent allow journalists to publish information that is in the public interest, even if that information was obtained unlawfully. Illustration: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Can journalists publish "stolen" information?

Jacques Louw 18 May 2023

Montana set to be first US state to ban TikTok on personal devices

18 May 2023

Tunisia detains 2 students over satirical song criticising police

Tarek Amara, Angus MacSwan 17 May 2023

Gunmen kill journalist in restive northwest Cameroon, says union

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 8 May 2023

Source: © Unesco The 2023 Unesco / Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize has been awarded to three imprisoned Iranian women journalists

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

Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards to spotlight the continent and African journalists

3 May 2023

Al Jazeera journalist freed from pretrial detention in Egypt

Farah Saafan, Nick Macfie 2 May 2023

From advertising blackmail to physical threats, Kenya's journalists are under attack - but they must also regain public trust

George Ogola 17 Apr 2023

Burkina Faso expels 2 French journalists

Thiam Ndiaga, Alessandra Prentice, Raissa Kasolowsky 3 Apr 2023

Russia arrests The Wallstreet Journal reporter on spying charge

31 Mar 2023

French journalist Dubois freed in Mali

Lucien Libert, Elizabeth Pineau, John Irish, GV De Clercq and Kevin Liffey 22 Mar 2023

Sanef pickets with Karyn Maughan as she challenges private prosecution

22 Mar 2023

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