A Critique Of The Media Is Not Automatically An Attack On...
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Dreams of Smart Cities, mass retrenchments, young people in cabinet and National Assembly, growth for the Economic Freedom Fighters and the emboldenment of the...
#TDVTurns5: “I Want TDV To Never Forget What We Stand For”
PART ONE
The Daily Vox (TDV) started its journey as South Africa Votes 2014. Co-founders Azad Essa and Khadija Patel wanted to cover the 2014...
#FNW19: Journalism Is Under Threat But There Is Hope
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
“Journalists are the canary in the mineshaft,” said Sreenivasan Jain, managing editor at New Delhi Television (NDTV). Jain was speaking at Future News...
#TDVTurns5: Former Daily Vox Writers Remember The Early Days
PART TWO
The Daily Vox (TDV) started its journey as South Africa Votes 2014. Co-founders Azad Essa and Khadija Patel wanted to cover the 2014...
Max Du Preez: On Fighting Against Apartheid As Media
From the late 70s to the early 90s, South Africa saw some truly turbulent times. Journalist and social commentator Max Du Preez was at...
Statistics surrounding South Africa’s farm murder rate are more political than...
A recent analysis by Africa Check, an organisation that promotes accuracy in media reporting, has called into question the accuracy of commonly cited farm...
Hashtag Our Stories’s Mohammed Arai on mental health awareness
October is Mental Health Awareness Month in South Africa. An important aspect at the heart of changing attitudes about mental health is storytelling. Mental...
How Mobile Journalism Is Empowering Citizen Storytelling Around The World
"We've seen the evolving of journalism based on technology just by mobile phones and the democratisation of social media," mobile journalism trainer and co-founder...
Communities Join Hands To Assist KZN Floods Victims
Calls for aid relief for Durban Floods has been made, this after hundreds of people were left displaced by devastating torrential rains that swept...
“What I noticed about the movie is that it focuses more...
After receiving heavy criticism from a number of people, the critically-acclaimed award winning film “Inxeba†(The Wound) finally hit the cinemas on Friday 02....
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‘Funny’ photos of Mugabe are no joke for Zimbabwean freelancers
If ever I needed a reminder of how much trouble the term “freelancer†can cause in Zimbabwe, Friday was it. President Robert Mugabe was...
Cyclone Idai: Tough Press Laws Hinder Reporting From Mozambique
Cyclone Idai has devastated Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The cyclone hit Mozambique's second-largest port city of Beira on March 14 before it had...
5 podcasts to add to your playlist
The popularity of podcasts on the African continent is something that is growing especially due to investment. The number of podcasts being released are...
Grow up Fikile Mbalula, you are the Minister of Police FFS
On 30 June, a group from the Black First Land First (BLF) movement decided to mob journalist Peter Bruce, picketing outside his home in...
Propaganda, security and democracy: Kenyan female journalists take on the elections
On Tuesday August 1, the Association of Media Women in Kenya, held a forum on the online harassment of women journalists in Kenya leading...
Seven reasons why Sunday Tribune’s South Africa-Islamic State link is irresponsible...
On Sunday, Independent Newspapers’ Sunday Tribune published a piece titled "Islamic State's SA link". The article claims the Islamic State group, operating in Syria...
A strong SABC is crucial for democracy in South Africa
On Friday, members of the media and civil society staged a protest outside the SABC's offices in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. They were protesting the...
“Future of Media: How can we make journalism better for everyone?”...
Join The Daily Vox team as they present a webinar on June 14 on the future of media and decolonisation in the media. As...
16 Days of Activism: how South Africa’s TV news gets it wrong
South Africa is a country that experiences a very high level of gender-based violence. During the UN’s annual international 16 Days of Activism Against...
