Home › Media

Media

Media home

Information about media including coverage of development issues, freedom of expression and media activism.
 

Group notifications

This group offers an RSS feed. Or subscribe to these personalized, sitewide feeds:
 

Bloggers

 
Communities comment on the SABC’s Charter
freedom of expression media regulation public broadcaster
26 January, 2009

The SABC’s Charter is the Corporation’s vision and mission document – or should be. The “Save our SABC” Campaign travelled to Phiri in Soweto to find out what people wanted from their SABC and what they wanted included in a new Charter.

0 comment(s)
The Economic Value of Indigenous Languages

All languages have economic value; some more than others. In Africa - as a result of a long and often violent history of subjugation and linguistic imperialism - the English and French languages are associated with prestige, economic progress and modernity. The use of indigenous mother tongue is limited to social interaction, and in many instances associated with backwardness, illiteracy and ethno-traditionalism. How can we change these perceptions and develop the economic value of indigenous languages?

Public Participation and Transparency Essential in Selecting New SABC Board

Maximum public participation and transparency is a process of educating people to take ownership of an institution they nominally own. Not to broaden participation this time round after the fiasco of the board appointed by former President Mbeki, is simply to risk a repeat of that process and the controversy now dogging the appointment of the interim board

Navigation

 

Group opportunities

 
Press Freedom: Myth or Reality?

On 3 May 2009, South African journalists joined the rest of the world in commemorating World Press Freedom Day. According to the UN, “it is an opportunity to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty.” The UNESCO theme for this year is ‘Media, Dialogue and Mutual Understanding’.
What is to be done about our public broadcaster?

The SABC has been lurching from crisis to crisis to the extent that its editorial and programming credibility, financial viability and institutional sustainability are now seriously in question. Now is the time for everyone to participate in the debate on substantive issues so that we can get the public broadcaster that we want and deserve, and one that can sustain and deepen our democracy.
What is to be done about our public broadcaster?

The SABC has been lurching – for years - from crisis to crisis to the extent that its editorial and programming credibility, financial viability and institutional sustainability are now seriously in question.
Digital migration
Children and the media: what do political parties say?

We can listen to parties that tell us they will look after the police, give them resources, have more of them etc to help reduce crime, but if we do not look at key issues around violence and crime from the perspective of children and integrate children into every major strategy to address this issue, we are simply wasting our time.
Work on the Broadcasting Amendment Bill
Oral Representations by the Civil Society Coalition

Oral Representations by the Civil Society Coalition: Save our SABC – Reclaiming our Public Broadcaster, on the draft Broadcasting Act Amendment Bill [2008]
Oral Representations by the Civil Society Coalition

Oral Representations by the Civil Society Coalition: Save our SABC – Reclaiming our Public Broadcaster, on the draft Broadcasting Act Amendment Bill [2008]

Media vacancies

Navigation

 

Group opportunities

 

Other Media Opportunities

Navigation

 

Media Events

Navigation

 

Events for all groups

more
 

Media Press Releases

Media Press Releases

Date publishedsort icon Organisation
08/11/2009 Walter Sisulu University Potential Centre of Excellence in Journalism Training in Africa, Walter Sisulu University to Train Community Broadcasters
08/10/2009 International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) IFJ and INSI Join Global Call for Release of Journalists in Gambia
08/06/2009 Gender Links: Top jobs in the Southern Africa media continue to elude women
07/27/2009 The South African Institute for Advancement and Quo Vadis Communications The Media: Partnering for Civil Society
07/22/2009 SOS Campaign Nominations For the New Permanent SABC Board
07/08/2009 Interim Board problems and a way forward for the new permanent Board
05/28/2009 Television Industry Emergency Coalition TVIEC to March Against the SABC
05/27/2009 European Federation of Journalist EFJ Protests Against "Threatening" Bill on Protection of Sources
05/05/2009 International Federation of Journalists EFJ Condemns Court Decision against Photojournalist in Finland
04/15/2009 European Federation of Journalists EFJ Backs Spanish Journalists in Protest Over Violence Against Media Covering Demonstrations
04/08/2009 NSJ New Steps in Building a New NSJ
03/02/2009 COSATU COSATU shocked at SABC deficit reports
02/27/2009 IFJ Calls on Moldova to Respect Press Freedom after Police Storm Media Outlet
02/10/2009 International Federation of Journalists IFJ Condemns Escalation of Violence against Journalists in Somalia
02/10/2009 Reporters Without Borders Dismay At Fatal Shooting of TV Reporter Covering Anti-Government Demonstration
01/30/2009 Media Institute of Southern Africa MISA Welcomes Rejection of Film and Publication Bill
01/23/2009 International Federation of Journalists IFJ welcomes journalist release in Somalia
01/10/2009 IFJ Demands End to Targeting as Israelis Strike Media Tower
11/18/2008 International Federation of Journalists IFJ Condemns Arrest of Journalists in Sudan
09/09/2008 MISA Press Freedom Award Winner Announced

Navigation

 

Recent Press Releases