Kenya’s press has admitted to self-censorship after the August 8th poll to avoid a repeat of 2008’s post-election violence. But by refusing to inform the public has the media lost credibility?
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A newspaper’s job is to publish information. But fingers should be pointed at whoever leaked it.
Handing over censorship to authors and writers themselves may actually make it harsher.
On World Press Freedom Day, we must deal with the threat data collection and surveillance poses to journalism.
The growth of new, vibrant, independent media sites and projects in South Africa have challenged conceptions of what a newsroom is. On limited budgets, some even fare better than mainstream media.
Namibia contributes a positive image to Africa in governance and other indicators. But the reality for most of the country’s 2.3 million people isn’t quite as rosy.
The growing incidence of racism on social media in South Africa suggests that there are consequences. Whether there ought to be criminal sanctions remains an ongoing debate.
The US president’s attack on confidential sources is one of many legal and technological threats to public interest journalism, as a new report shows
The beleaguered new president is driving a wedge between his citizens and the media. Nixon would have been proud.
Fleet Street is up in arms against a law they say will kill investigative journalism. That simply isn’t true.
EU law needs to recognise that privacy and free expression are matters of colliding rights which can’t be wished away.
While some African countries have shown an improvement in press freedom and freedom of expression ratings, others, including South Africa, are seeing worrying trends and a drop in rankings.
The ousting of BBC chair, Rona Fairhead, is a worrying sign of a government power grab over the public broadcaster.
Press freedom has changed little in the past decade. If the African Union is to commit to the principles of democracy, it needs to do more to uphold freedom of expression and protects its journalists.
Namibia’s rise in the World Press Freedom rankings is stunning. The media environment in Africa, too, has improved. But media closures and the harassment of journalists are not yet things of the past.
Celebrities should not be able to get the British legal system to do their dirty work for them.
For journalists in Venezuela, free speech means risking imprisonment or exile.
Angola’s Dos Santos is buying time. His promise to step down is an attempt to diffuse growing political tensions, as repression continues. He might relinquish his position, but not his power.
Welcome to ‘Erdoğanistan’, where the government knows how to change a newspaper’s tune.
Whether they charge for FoI searches or not, it’s still too hard to access government information.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Journalism and Communications, Macquarie University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
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Associate Professor in International Relations & Academic Director of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Communications, University of Westminster
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Emeritus Professor of Journalism, Cardiff University
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Founding Editor, Pacific Journalism Review / Te Koakoa, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific., Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Assistant Professor, Journalism and Director of Graduate Studies, Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture, Virginia Commonwealth University
