Newspapers

Dinosaur? Maybe. But there is an artistry to blending research, headlines, words and images, to make a real-world product we can be proud of

The digital media industry is besieged by standards that encourage the dumbing down of its work – consider what’s happening to the Washington Post

Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon

Gwen Lister’s book, ‘Comrade Editor’, weaves together a narrative from the strands of her own life, her journalism, and the wider context of Namibia’s struggle for independence

A study shows that the social messaging platform is both emancipatory and destructive, particularly during election campaigns

With many readers coming to news sites from social media links, they may not pay attention to the subtle clues that mark a story published by the opinion staff

Publications have cut salaries and frozen posts in a bid to survive the disease, but most owners failed to take appropriate steps when problems emerged in the late 1990s

In matric my friends and I got into trouble and were called into the principal’s office to be reprimanded. I do not remember most of what the principal said during the…

National newspapers are shedding jobs but the situation is even worse for community media, many of which face closure

The Africa Is a Country website offers a rich mix of news, comment and analysis about the continent

Saturday’s brazen raid on Bayede News appears to have been about keeping the newspaper off the streets

The twenty-year-old will take over the helm of the only daily paper in Cambridge, Massachusetts next year

SA’s newsrooms, fraught with unseen booby traps, are often stifling, with dinosaurs at the helm, writes Kwanele Sosibo.

There has been transformation in the fourth estate, particularly in terms of the state of newspapers and radio since apartheid, writes Glenda Daniels.

Newspapers have to creep out of their comfort zones to service an ever-growing platform-agnostic readership.