Jessica Weiss With more than 2 billion people actively using social media each month, its stake in journalism is a no-brainer. Though Facebook makes up more than half of these users,... Read more
By Tom Rhodes/CPJ East Africa Representative Members of the public visit the office of The Patriot. The paper’s former chief editor says critical journalists risk being labeled rebel s... Read more
Demonstrators hold banners outside the headquarters of Southern Weekly newspaper in January 2013. Photo: James Pomfret/ Reuters New York, December 17, 2014 – In the wake of a broad cra... Read more
Ashley Nguyen Investigative journalists often look to numbers to back up or fuel their reports, but the data they need can’t always be found in a tidy spreadsheet or gat... Read more
Wearable devices, virtual reality and modular mobile are just a few buzzwords journalists may be adding to their vernacular. Each year, digital strategist Amy Webb and her co... Read more
Fifteen journalists joined the list of finalists for the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting at the award presentation ceremony on Tuesday 9 December 2014 in Lagos. Of the f... Read more
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) will tomorrow honour the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), headed by Mr. Tokunbo Mumuni and Mr Ademola Os... Read more
Members of the press with President Kagame. Media regulations have been loosened in Rwanda but journalists say self-censorship is still prevalent. (Reuters/Munyarubuga Fed/Presidential Press... Read more
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes today’s ruling by the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights in Addis Ababa that criminal defamation should be used only in restricted... Read more
