Lifetime Achievement Awards for Trailblazing Couple in African Journalism – Tami Hultman and Reed Kramer
allAfrica
Two co-founders of AllAfrica Global Media - Tami Hultman and Reed Kramer - were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards during the 2024 African Media Leaders Summit in Nairobi,… Read more »
Misa Will Not Be the Same Without Annie Musodza [press release]
MISA
She was indeed The Matriarch! Read more »
Somalia's Only All-Women Media Team Wins Global Freedom of Expression Award
Radio Dalsan
Somalia's only all-women news team, Bilan, has won the 2024 One World Media Press Freedom Award today, becoming the first Somali media team to receive this honour. Read more »
I Did Not Expel Any Journalist From Press Briefing - Abia Speaker
Vanguard
Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Emmanuel Emeruwa,has debunked reports that he expelled a journalist from a press briefing at the conference hall of the state… Read more »
South African President Ramaphosa Did Not Snub Nigerian President Tinubu. Ignore Out-of-Context Video From Ramaphosa's Inauguration
Africa Check
South African president Ramaphosa did not snub Nigerian president Tinubu. Ignore out-of-context video from Ramaphosa's inauguration Read more »
PDP Tackles Abia Speaker Over Expulsion of Journalist From Press Briefing
Vanguard
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abia State chapter, has berated the speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Emmanuel Emeruwa, over the expulsion of a journalist from a… Read more »
Ex-Daily News Editor, Pudenciana Temba Is No More
Daily News
Veteran journalist and former editor of the Daily News, Ms Pudenciana Temba (63) has passed away. Read more »
RSF Calls on ECOWAS to React to Media Shutdowns in Guinea [press release]
RSF
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Guinean government’s illegal decision to strip six privately-owned independent broadcasters – four radio stations and two… Read more »
Burundi Regulator Warns Iwacu Press Group After Police Assault 2 of Outlet's Journalists
CPJ
Burundian authorities must desist from intimidating the independent news outlet Iwacu Press Group and swiftly investigate recent police attacks on two of the outlet's journalists,… Read more »
The Defence of Journalism and Journalists Is a Social Justice Issue [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Journalism may be as old as the hills, as the saying goes, but in the 2020s it is facing an existential crisis. If journalism is made de facto extinct, left to thrive only in small… Read more »
ASBU, China Sign MOU in Audiovisual Sector
Tunis Afrique Presse
A memorandum of understanding and cooperation agreements in the audiovisual sector were signed Thursday in Tunis by the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) and China represented… Read more »
Ghana to Host the 2024 Africa Facts Summit
Africa Check
The 2024 Africa Facts summit, scheduled for October 9-10 in Accra, Ghana, will bring together fact-checking organizations and experts from across the continent. Read more »
Stage Media Gets IFCN Grant Alongside 38 Other Organizations
FrontPageAfrica
Liberia's first fact-checking media outlet, The Stage Media-Liberia is among 38 international fact-checking platforms to receive the "International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)"… Read more »
False! Old Claim About Life-Saving Benefits of Drinking Hot Water Resurfaces in South Africa
Africa Check
False! Old claim about life-saving benefits of drinking hot water resurfaces in South Africa Read more »
Journalists Attacked By Police During Protest in Nairobi [press release]
IFJ
Collins Olunga, a journalist with AFP in Nairobi, suffered an injury caused by a teargas canister thrown at him by police and was transferred to a hospital. Kenya Broadcasting… Read more »