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#FaveOfTheWeek: Saziso Dlamini
Meet multi-award winning South African community radio presenter Saziso Dlamini.
frayintermedia
Oct 29, 20203 min read
Awards for Africa’s top fact-checkers
A Nigerian journalist has once more claimed the top prize at the annual African Fact-Checking Awards.
frayintermedia
Oct 26, 20202 min read
#FaveOfTheWeek: Chimwemwe Mikwala
Meet Malawian journalist Chimwemwe Mikwala who is the deputy chief reporter of current affairs at Yoneco FM.
frayintermedia
Oct 23, 20203 min read
Nigerian media leaders look at industry impact on good governance
Governments must protect the independent functioning of the media and allow various viewpoints to flourish.
frayintermedia
Oct 23, 20202 min read
OPINION: Pronouns can be a matter of life or death
Media in Africa – and indeed across the globe – have a habit of ‘misgendering’ trans people by using the wrong pronouns.
frayintermedia
Oct 21, 20203 min read
Black Wednesday: The banning of independent media in apartheid South Africa
October 19, 1977, is remembered in South African as Black Wednesday, a day when the apartheid government clamped down on independent media.
frayintermedia
Oct 21, 20201 min read
New threats to media freedom come from unexpected directions
Journalists need to hold firmly to the ethical standards that assure audiences their work is reliable and credible.
frayintermedia
Oct 20, 20201 min read
#FaveOfTheWeek: Veneranda Langa
Meet Zimbabwean journalist Veneranda Langa who is passionate about parliamentary reporting.
frayintermedia
Oct 15, 20204 min read
How young, queer Nigerians use Twitter to shape identity and fight homophobia
Despite same-sex relations being criminal, social media is a space to come out and speak back to homophobia for Nigerian twitter users.
frayintermedia
Oct 14, 20201 min read
Newsrooms need an open-door policy to combat online attacks on journalists
Online hate and harassment have infiltrated the world of journalism and newsroom leaders need to set up policies and protocols.
by Ntombi Mkandhla
Oct 8, 20202 min read
#FaveOfTheWeek: Betty Amamukirori
Meet Ugandan Betty Amamukirori, a New Vision journalist who reports on issues such as health, courts and parliament.
frayintermedia
Oct 7, 20204 min read
Digital democracy is still a long way off in Africa: it takes more than technology
The full benefits of digital democracy are being thwarted by digital exclusion that is driven by the high cost of data.
frayintermedia
Oct 6, 20201 min read
Reporting remotely but still making a big difference
Innovation has been a key tool for journalists seeking to do their work safely while reporting in and for an uncertain COVID-19 world.
by Ntombi Mkandhla
Oct 5, 20202 min read
fesmedia Africa awards Access to Information winners
fesmedia Africa has awarded three young Africans from Nigeria, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe as its Access to Information Competition winners.
frayintermedia
Oct 1, 20202 min read
MMA and SANEF propose draft amendments to local access to information act
PAIA was a progressive piece of legislation when it was enacted 20 years ago but is now “in need of urgent reform”
by Ntombi Mkandhla
Sep 30, 20202 min read
#FaveOfTheWeek: Mary Mbewe
Meet Zambian media executive Mary Mbewe, Women In News’ 2020 Editorial Leadership Award Laureate for Africa.
frayintermedia
Sep 30, 20203 min read
Access to information promotes transparency and accountability
Information is arsenal to fight corruption, promote good governance, transparency accountability, and integrity.
by Ntombi Mkandhla
Sep 29, 20203 min read
e-learning in COVID-19: South Africa’s unequal experience
The transition to online learning in the COVID-19 pandemic has been an unequal experience for children in South Africa.
by Ntombi Mkandhla
Sep 28, 20203 min read
#FaveOfTheWeek: Victoria Rubadiri
Meet Kenyan journalist Victoria Rubadiri, the 2020 recipient of the prestigious 2020 Komla Dumor Award.
frayintermedia
Sep 23, 20204 min read
Journalism makes blunders but still feeds democracy: an insider’s view
Media self-criticism is not just important to improve journalism, it is a political, professional and moral imperative.
frayintermedia
Sep 21, 20201 min read
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