Full View Anchor Tsepiso Makwetla dealt with some of the issues discussed at the “credibility of Journalism” panel discussion at the Goethe Institute. Over the last decade, the face of journalism has changed in significant and dramatic ways. Newsrooms have...
By Mahlatse Mahlase Sanef Chairperson. The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) notes and welcomes the public debate in the wake of our Equality Court application against the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and its leader, Julius Malema. We believe that...
The South African National Editors’ Forum has today (August 13, 2019), been asked to make its court papers on this matter available. Please find attached here: The original Sanef court papers: https://www.sanef.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Part-1.pdf https://www.sanef.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Part-2.pdf https://www.sanef.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Part-3.pdf The EFF answering papers here: https://sanef.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019.07.03-EFF-Response-Part-1.pdf...
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) is pleased to announce today (August 12, 2019) that its Inquiry into Media Credibility and Ethics is making good progress. Journalists and members of the public have started to engage and make submissions....
The South African Police Service (SAPS) have limited and strict circumstances to stop the media from taking photos or videos, as indicated by the SAPS Standing Order 156. Helene Eloff, has recorded this podcast to explain what the Standing Order...
Ferial Haffajee writes in the Daily Maverick The internet and the powerful social media platforms now host among the worst forms of violence against journalists and are a rising threat to media freedom. Women journalists come in for particular targeting...
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) notes the findings and recommendations of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into interference in the Decision-making in the Newsroom of the SABC between the years 2012 and 2017. We note the chilling...
The Press Council of South Africa has published an easy-to-read Code of Ethics manual for journalists titled Decoding the Code. “Decoding the Code” is an ethics made easy manual or a “Code of Ethics for dummies” which attempts to...
With the permission of The Conversation Africa, we republish this article written by Jeff Conroy-Krutz, from Michigan State University and published on August 4, 2019. One of the least enviable tasks of journalists in the US must be reporting on how...