AFRICACardoso's killer still on the run
Contrary to recent reports to the effect that he'd been recaptured, the man convicted of killing journalist Carlos Cardoso is still on the run. 17 Dec 2008 07:12
AFRICAEgyptian journalist wins 2008 Gebran Tueni Award
Ibrahim Essa, editor-in-chief of Al Dustour, the daily newspaper in Egypt, has been awarded the 2008 Gebran Tueni Award, the annual prize of the World Association of Newspapers that honours an editor or publisher in the MENA region. 4 Dec 2008 10:10
AFRICAArab Free Press Forum looks at issues and changing face of Arab blogging
The World Association of Newspapers is holding its third Arab Free Press Forum in Beirut, Lebanon, on 12 and 13 December 2008. 7 Nov 2008 12:28
AFRICA2008 John Manyarara Investigative Journalism Awards winners
Charles Mpaka and Mike Chipalasa of the Daily Times, Malawi and Conceição Vitorino of Canal de Mozambique have won the 2008 MISA John Manyarara Investigative Journalist of the Year Award and the MISA John Manyarara Upcoming Investigative Journalist of the Year Award respectively. 30 Oct 2008 10:45
AFRICAWorldwide Press Freedom Index 2008: close-up on Africa
Some African leaders have understood the advantages their countries could derive from press freedom. Others have behaved like despots again this year. The continent's best-placed countries continue by and large to be the same, with Namibia (23rd), Mali (31st), Cape Verde (36th), South Africa (38th) and Mauritius (47th) coming in the top 50 of the annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2008. 22 Oct 2008 11:08
AFRICAZimbabwe: Newsprint shortage hits newspaper industry
[Dumisani Ndlela] An unprecedented shortage of newsprint has hit the newspaper industry after the local paper producer shut down its plants over “technical problems.” 20 Oct 2008 12:16
AFRICAPastor threatens to sue Ugandan tabloid for defamation
[Walter Wafula] The Red Pepper, a Ugandan tabloid newspaper has been warned against publishing defamatory stories about Pastor Isaac Kyobe Kiwewesi of the Kansanga Miracle Centre in Kampala. 3 Oct 2008 11:33
AFRICAZimbabwe: Cash crisis ruins newspaper sales
[Dumisani Ndlela] The Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) group has revealed that its newspaper titles have suffered significant sales losses due to an arduous cash crisis, devastating the country's newspaper publishing industry. 22 Sep 2008 10:19
AFRICAMalawi's third daily newspaper on the cards
[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi will, from this month have a third daily newspaper after President Bingu wa Mutharika's Guardian Publications Limited (GPL) announced its plans to turn tri-weekly, The Guardian into a daily. 12 Sep 2008 10:20
AFRICAJournalists important to Africa's digital revolution
[Proffesor Ndawonde] Grahamstown: Journalists should be at the frontline in advancing the digital revolution in Africa, Deputy Minister of Communications, Radhakrishna Roy Padayachie said on Monday, 8 September 2008. 9 Sep 2008 13:59
AFRICA‘Good old' Grahamstown welcomes Highway Africa 2008
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] It's Highway Africa time again and the little, old, and serene town of Grahamstown, 131km from Port-Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, has been ‘invaded' by more than 700 media practitioners from more than 40 African countries and other parts of the world, meeting here to discuss the burning issue of citizen journalism in today's fast-changing media environment. The conference opened today, Monday, 8 September 2008, at Rhodes University and will end on Wednesday. 8 Sep 2008 11:02
AFRICARugoho-Chin'ono, CNN Multichoice African Journalist 2008
Hopewell Rugoh-Chin'ono, from Zimbabwe, has been awarded the top prize at this year's CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2008 Awards ceremony. 21 Jul 2008 10:12
AFRICAZimbabwe: Newspapers grab new pricing opportunity to prevent collapse
[Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's media houses have seized on a new dispensation allowing them to charge cover prices without engaging price control agents by imposing weekly increases on newspaper prices. 11 Jul 2008 15:30
Next page>>
Connected by: Uninet
