Government staff in Rwanda appear to be using fake accounts to harass journalists on Twitter.
A Somali court has handed down jail sentences to a woman who said she was raped, and to the journalists who reported her story.
Kenyan lawmakers have adopted amendments to a controversial media Bill, despite international concern about press freedom.
Jimmy Manyi questions whether the public should know what is in Madonsela’s provisional report. Julie Reid says the M&G had no choice but to publish.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has promised not to "gag" journalists, and will review a press law that has sparked outrage among the media.
Media organisations will not publish anything from Tanzania’s information department in protest of three local newspapers being banned.
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President Jacob Zuma held up Mexico as an example of the reporting South African news organisations should strive for. But what does that mean?
Burundi’s president has approved a Bill that forces journalists to reveal sources and forbids stories deemed to undermine national security.
A home affairs department official has allegedly manhandled Cape Argus photographer David Ritchie and forced him to delete pictures off his camera.
Police in Uganda’s capital have shut down the country’s leading independent newspaper after it published an incriminating letter about the president.
As the new year creakily gathers steam, press standards and regulation are under scrutiny in both South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Lady Gaga’s visit to the Pimples children is cut short after an invasion by the paparazzi.
Sudanese authorities have suspended an independent newspaper and confiscated the entire Tuesday edition of another, editors have said.
Media representatives debating a Press Freedom Commission’s report say changes to the way the media is regulated will have little practical effect.
If we don’t want unethical behaviour to infect African journalism, we should urge media houses to embrace the AMI Principles, says Guy Berger.
SA’s status as a "beacon" for press freedom continues to be threatened by increased state involvement, says the South African National Editors Forum.
Black consciousness is mostly ignored by the media, but it doesn’t support censorship.
Newspaper editors have warned the Press Freedom Commission that introducing a media appeals tribunal would be "the death knell of a free press".
Commission is embarking on a campaign to elicit debate and is researching possible regulation.
Britain has been transfixed by the phone hacking scandal that has shaken its media world. But will it really change the nation’s press?
The ANC has sharply criticised the newly formed Press Freedom Commission, saying its formation will not result in the required reform of the media.
Zimbabwe police have arrested the editor of the <em>Standard</em> newspaper and a reporter after an article on the arrest of an MDC Cabinet minister.
The <i>M&G</i>’s state-of-the-media round-up for SADC found things weren’t so pretty. Well, that is if you like your reporting served up free.
A Russian newspaper has been shut down after it printed flyers for an opposition party intending to contest parliamentary elections in December.
What do you do when you have less than three months before the next "final" deadline for the controversial Protection of Information Bill?
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, addressing a US audience on Monday, defended SA’s record on affirmative action and press freedom.
Ghana has "too much" media freedom, while the UK has a self regulatory system that protects both the public and the media.
The issue of media freedom moved squarely into the global limelight this week, with a steep drop in the country’s global press-freedom ranking.
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National Press Freedom Day on October 19 is a fitting anniversary to take stock of threats to South African journalism.
Parliament will find that media self-regulation in SA squares with the international standard
Eighty-one percent of metro adults feel it is important to have independent TVstations, radio stations and newspapers, a new survey has revealed.
Mongrel political organisations are always likely to yield mongrel politics and policy, says <b>Richard Calland</b>.