The Wits Centre for Journalism and African Women in Media recently hosted a webinar exploring the debates, best practices and ethical roadmaps for deploying artificial intelligence in African ...

Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) honours students, together with researchers from the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS), recently took part in a one-day workshop hosted by the ...

Join the Wits Centre for Journalism for a one-day workshop designed to equip financial journalists and communicators with techniques to transform dry, complex financial data into compelling, engaging ...

The Centre is honoured to welcome Fatou Bensouda, distinguished lawyer and former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to this year’s African Investigative Journalism Conference ...

South Africa’s Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) convened the first ever media-focused parallel event to the G20 in Johannesburg on 1–2 September 2025 ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) held a special online session discussing ethical and responsible practices when reporting on whistleblowers. This webinar is based on the recently published WCJ ...

After being shortlisted for the National Arts and Culture Awards in the Outstanding Book, Non-Fiction category, the Wits Centre for Journalism is proud to report that PhD candidate Lebogang Seale’s ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) is proud to announce the selection of 24 journalists from across Africa who will each be granted $1000 (R17 300) to investigate and report on a range of important ...

The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF), in partnership with Sanlam, is pleased to announce that entries are now open for the prestigious Nat Nakasa Awards for Courageous Journalism 2025.

Guest speakers Ryk van Niekerk (editor of Moneyweb) and Rob Rose (editor and co-founder of Currency) join WCJ lecturer Gillian Jones for part one of a two-part Wits Centre for Journalism webinar ...

AI chatbots are also emerging as an alternative news source, with 12% of younger audiences in our global sample using them to get information about current event South Africa has one of the highest ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism, together with DefendDefenders, Magamba Network and Fojo Media, hosted a powerful five-day training session in Lusaka, Zambia at the beginning of June to strengthen the ...