Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s special adviser, Rams Mabote, says press clubs should just be for journalists.
Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s special adviser, Rams Mabote, says press clubs should just be for journalists.
Burma’s journalists will take to Twitter and Facebook in their battle to beat press restrictions and deliver breaking news of Sunday’s by-elections.
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/ 8 December 2011
The number of journalists that have been arrested in the world has hit a 15-year high, with independent journalists bearing the brunt of this.
Four Zimbabwean journalists detained on Friday while covering the eviction of a police officer from a government lodging, have been released.
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi admit holding British-based Anton Hammerl, but his wife and son have had no other news.
A photographer allegedly assaulted by VIP protection unit bodyguards in Durban on Wednesday said he was thinking about pressing charges.
An official Chinese newspaper on Thursday accused foreign journalists in the country of fabricating news
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/ 15 February 2011
The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application for an order finding that over 80 editors and journalism professors are censoring Lara Johnstone
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/ 11 February 2011
Two police officers who attempted to arrest a photographer are to be investigated for assault, the Independent Complaints Directorate.
Zimbabwe has quadrupled fees for local journalists working for international media organisations new regulations published on Thursday reported.
A Rwandan prosecutor has asked for a 33-year prison sentence for the editor of a local independent newspaper accused of denying the 1994 genocide.
The SA National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has added its voice to those condemning police for arresting two journalists.
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/ 27 December 2010
Some 105 journalists have been killed while doing their job this year, media watchdog Press Emblem Campaign said on Monday.
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/ 17 November 2010
The Union of Angolan Journalists said it was worried by a recent rise in violence against reporters after a journalist was murdered.
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/ 22 October 2010
If a new Bill aimed at preventing stalking is passed, journalists’ phone calls and visits could constitute stalking and harassment.
Eleven reporters have been killed in Somalia in just two years — uniquely dangerous conditions under which media workers operate.
Lawyers for the Hawks and the <i>Sunday Times</i> were in negotiations on Thursday as to whether to release journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika.
<i>Sunday Times</i> journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika will appear in the Kabokweni District Court in Mpumalanga, the Hawks said on Wednesday.
Gunmen shot dead a Nigerian newspaper journalist after forcing their way into his home in the commercial capital, Lagos, his newspaper said on Monday.
A cameraman who was among three members of a South African television crew abducted in Nigeria has fled to safety and is now in Lagos.
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/ 29 January 2010
Three of SA’s media houses have sent a submission to Fifa saying conditions it is imposing on journalists during the World Cup are unconstitutional.
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/ 24 November 2009
The death toll from an attack on a group of journalists and politicians in the southern Philippines rose to 39 on Tuesday, police said.
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/ 20 October 2009
We are in a recession and this is no time for the sin of pride. The credit crunch has hit everyone hard, but arguably none so hard as journalists.
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/ 9 September 2009
Nato commandos on Wednesday rescued a New York Times reporter held by the Taliban in Afghanistan during a dramatic airborne swoop.
The humble notebook has been thrust on to centre stage by the furore about the recent M&G report of remarks made by Judge President John Hlophe
A German journalist died in hospital on Monday from injuries suffered in a vehicle accident in the Free State, a German embassy spokesperson said.
North Korea will put on trial on Thursday two United States journalists it says illegally entered the country with ”hostile intent”.
Somalia’s al-Shebab group stormed an independent radio station in Baidoa, ordered broadcasting to stop and detained three journalists, witnesses said.
A Sri Lankan court on Friday released a Tamil editor who had been detained over alleged links to Tiger air attacks in the capital, an official said.
North Korea will put two US journalists arrested last month on its border with China on trial to face criminal charges, its media said on Friday.
Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday an Iranian-American journalist was being held in Evin prison on the orders of a court that handles state security.