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Rebuilding trust and credibility in the media
Highway Africa (HA), the continent's biggest media conference run by the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, held its third webinar, entitled "Building Trust Practicing Credibility: A Journalism Challenge," on 14 October. This webinar looked...
Webinar underscores need for media partnerships
Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa -- Highway Africa (HA), the largest conference for African journalists on the continent, hosted its second webinar entitled “Journalists, Scientists, Whistle-blowers, Governments: Who are The Truth-Tellers” on August 5. This...
Highway Africa launches high-level media webinars
Reporting: Julian Jacobs Editing: Francis Mdlongwa Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa -- Highway Africa (HA), the continent’s biggest and oldest conference series run by Rhodes University, has launched a series of high-level webinars that seek practical solutions to...
The names behind the numbers
byALICE DE SOUZA May 28, 2020 in COVID-19 REPORTING Brazil has become a new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, reaching 20,000 deaths on May 21. The official numbers may be the tip of the iceberg as a study conducted by the University of São Paulo shows the...
Investigative journalism in the era of the corona virus
The coronavirus, which causes the disease known as Covid-19, has killed thousands of people across the world and upended the lives and work of billions of others still lucky to count themselves alive. Never before in the past century has a disease wrought so much...