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/ 4 February 2009
A Somali journalist says masked gunmen have killed the director of Somalia’s largest media company at a market in the country’s capital.
Death lists, arrests and torture are daily realities for independent journalists in Zimbabwe, but now their families are also targets.
Senegal’s radio stations and newspapers hold a ”news blackout” day to push for action against police officers who allegedly beat up two reporters.
Anna Louw wrote numerous articles on Robert McBride’s drunk-driving case and related issues.
Anton Harber, co-founder of <i>The Weekly Mail</i>, now the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>, answers 10 questions as the <i>M&G</i> celebrates 20 years.
Zimbabwe journalists facing beatings or arrest if they are critical of the government, an African fact-finding mission said on Friday.
In its investigation of complaints laid against the Forum of Black Journalists, the South African Human Rights Commission twice wrote to FBJ chief Abbey Makoe.
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/ 13 November 2007
Hazel Friedman, winner of this year’s Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award, believes she has passed through all the trenches of this industry.
Fienie Grobler, the new editor of <i>The Media</i> magazine, speaks to the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> about media reporting.
Kalay Maistry (33) is the newly appointed Southern Africa correspondent for al-Jazeera International, the new 24-hour English-language news channel.
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/ 24 November 2005
<i>Weekly Mail</i> recruits were poverty stricken, persecuted and despised, writes Anton Harber, but those who stayed afloat are now shaping the news.
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/ 22 September 2005
Nova is a new daily newspaper in Gauteng. Minette Ferreira became Nova editor after working as the Daily Sun‘s chief sub-editor.
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/ 1 September 2005
Karin Eloff (32) is the new editor of <i>Loslyf</i>. She appeared seminaked on the cover of the September issue.
Ex-policeman Paul Erasmus tells of a post-1990 security police campaign to discredit Winnie Mandela in the world’s media, reports Stefaans Brummer
Government departments have been instructed not to talk to foreign journalists who are not accredited with the Bureau for Information.