Tag: South Africa

• Journalists at major media houses in South Africa use Twitter as a journalistic tool for crowd sourcing, breaking news events, live blogging and to balance, check and cultivate sources. This paper analyses the use of the social network platform by the top 500 South African journalists. The findings suggest that pluralism and openness are important…

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  22/01/2015

  Work

  crowdsourcing, journalism, participation, social media, South Africa, verification

• It is a question I ask myself – as a man and as a President. We know that like South Africa, the United States had to overcome centuries of racial subjugation. As was true here, it took the sacrifice of countless people – known and unknown – to see the dawn of a new day.…

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  10/12/2013

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  Barack Obama, eulogy, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, speech

• New on mediapolicy – AfriMAP reports

  Over the past couple of days, we’ve added a new section making it easier for you to access the work of our colleagues in the AfriMAP project. As with the Mapping Digital Media section, you can now also read AfriMAP reports about public media environments in Africa right here on mediapolicy.org. Visit mediapolicy.org/AfriMAP to learn…

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  04/04/2013

  Research & Evidence

  africa, AFRIMAP, Benin, Cameroon, kenya, Mali, mediapolicy.org, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Public Media, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, zimbabwe

• On Wednesday 3 October 2012, the Press Council of South Africa announced sweeping reforms to press regulations at an event at Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg. Much stronger public participation in the Press Council of South Africa and its adjudication procedures is the most notable change. The reforms move the press from self-regulation to voluntary independent co-regulation.…

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  12/10/2012

  Clippings, News, Policy, Law & Regulation

  africa, law, media reform, press, Regulation, South Africa

• On Wednesday 3 October 2012, the Press Council of South Africa announced sweeping reforms to press regulations at an event at Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg. Much stronger public participation in the Press Council of South Africa and its adjudication procedures is the most notable change. The reforms move the press from self-regulation to voluntary independent co-regulation.…

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  12/10/2012

  Work

  africa, law, media reform, press, Regulation, South Africa