The Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) has assumed management of the VOW 88.1 community radio station from the Faculty of ...

State of the Newsroom is an annual report published by the Wits Centre for Journalism that addresses emerging issues in the media landscape in South Africa. It aims to make this content accessible to ...

Over 450 delegates from 50 countries participated in 65+ lectures, workshops and networking sessions at the 21st African ...

A special and exciting programme to develop a new generation of investigative reporters, a partnership between Wits Journalism, Rhodes School of Journalism and Media Studies and the Open Society ...

Taco Kuiper Grants are made to encourage investigate journalism in South African print media. A fund of up to R350 000 is available annually. Grants are available for print journalists or print ...

Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons of GroundUp took top honours at the 18th Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism for their explosive exposé of Thabo Bester’s escape from prison, a saga which ...

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has released its Digital News Report 2024, the most comprehensive piece of research on news consumption worldwide. It is based on a survey of over ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism and African Women in Media recently hosted a webinar exploring the debates, best practices and ethical roadmaps for deploying artificial intelligence in African ...

Join the Wits Centre for Journalism for the online launch of its 2025 State of the Newsroom Report – AI, Trust and Resilience: Building a Future News in South Africa. Report editor Alan Finlay will be ...

The 2025 edition of State of the Newsroom takes a detailed look at the possible impact of artificial intelligence on the news in South Africa, what’s happening now, and the changes newsrooms will need ...

Dewald van Rensburg of South African investigative journalism unit amaBhungane has won the 2025 AIJC African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award for his series of investigations titled “City of ...