Nhlanhla Nene was highly regarded for refusing to fund former President Zuma’s ludicrous rent-seeking projects.
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Instead of taking pride in how quickly they cover the same stories as everyone else, these organizations make public service journalism their top priority.
Spotlight’s Walter V. Robinson and the Newcastle Herald’s Chad Watson on covering clergy abuse - and the threats that followed
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In this episode, we hear from Walter V. Robinson on how the Boston Globe Spotlight investigation into clergy abuse began, and from the Newcastle Herald's Chad Watson on how his paper covered abuse.
Fairfax Media has a long and highly successful history in investigative journalism, which may be at risk if the company merges with the Nine Network.
Without credible news and information, a healthy democracy is not possible.
The sustainability of the news media is a precondition for good journalism in the public interest. Thus, economic questions should form part of discussions of press freedom.
South African investigative journalists and civil society played a crucial role in bringing a country in the clutches of patronage networks back from the brink.
Established media organisations are collaborating across borders and with new media to break big stories such as global tax avoidance by the rich and powerful.
A good news story about the news? It’s true. In British Columbia, a digital news ecology is flowering through ‘coopetition’ – as Media Democracy Day will soon showcase.
South Africa’s perilous decline under Jacob Zuma’s presidency is set out in two non-fiction books that provide unsettling, but essential reading.
Canadian newspapers are in trouble, and there are no philanthropic efforts afoot to rescue them. The National Student Investigative Reporting Network, or NSIRN, is aiming to make a difference.
Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been killed in Malta – but we must accept that corruption is a problem for all of Europe.
There are reasons to channel Harvey aid through the nonprofit despite evidence that it wasted money following Haiti’s earthquake and fumbled Superstorm Sandy relief efforts.
Imagine, for a moment, if there were no independent journalists left to decipher PR spin.
Big cash infusions can give nonprofit journalism a much-needed boost. But the ailing news industry needs more consistent funding.
From a social media post that cracked open a decades-old abuse scandal in the UK and Australia, through to tracking asylum seekers, social media can be vital in breaking investigative news stories.
Journalists call it the ‘dark arts’, and public relations is more powerful than ever.
Despite its negative aspects, investigative journalists globally are using social media to collaborate and uncover important stories.
The Daily Telegraph used hidden cameras to capture the England manager in an apparent impropriety … and it cost him his job.
Some of the key questions faced by news organisations before publishing their scoop.
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Professor of Political Communication, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor of Journalism, Cardiff University
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Western Australia
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C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Journalism, Boston University
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Senior Lecturer in Literary & Narrative Journalism, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, School of Communication; Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University School of Communication
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Lecturer in Journalism and Digital Media, Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Journalism, City, University of London
