The Women's Show and key SABC Public Commercial Services (PCS) platforms SABC3 and Metro FM have formed an historic and long-term partnership to create a multiple platform experience within the context of the exhibition theme, "Celebrating our similarities".
Reporters Without Borders has learned from local sources that Tura Kubaba, a journalist with the Kunama-language service of state-owned Radio Dimtsi Hafash ("Voice of the Masses"), has been detained in Eritrea since the second half of 2006 and disappeared last
Launched in January 2008 by Cape Town-based Media agency Sunday Media, new satire website Hayibo.com bills itself as "South Africa's second best source of satirical news, after the SABC", and has been winning fans across the country and internationally.
A new study conducted by a local media development agency has revealed that the traditional media in Liberia is barely surviving and would require solid investment to become truly independent.
Promotion of peace and development journalism has been identified as the best means of advancing the noble contribution of the profession to democracy and national transformation.
With almost thirty local dailies in Monrovia alone, the Liberia Media Center (LMC) has observed that there is a staggering percentage of newspaper-readers bringing to mind that Liberia still has a high percentage of uninformed people.
The editors and a reporter of "The Public Agenda", one of Liberia's best investigative newspapers, has been summoned by the First Judicial Circuit Criminal Court A for Montserrado county, to answer to charges of contempt of court over an article
A prosecutor dropped two-year-old charges against freelance journalist Sydney Saize in restive Zimbabwe on Tuesday, while a magistrate denied bail to freelancer Frank Chikowore, who has been detained for more than a week. The Committee to Protect Journalists today called
The Kanifing Magistrate Court trying Fatou Jaw Manneh, a US-based Gambian journalist, for alleged sedition on 21 April 2008 restricted the general public from the trial by ruling that only Manneh's family members and two journalists were to be admitted
The cause of press freedom, vital to building democracy in Africa, is being damaged by journalists who accept payment from their sources for covering the news. AllAfrica guest columnist Faten Aggad discusses the problem.
On 22 April 2008, the Sunday editor of the Lagos-based private "Daily Sun" newspaper, Ms. Funke Egbemode, allegedly received threats to her life from some unidentified members of Nigeria's House of Representatives for breaking a story of an alleged budget
A joint UNEP-EEA study of environmental issues in the countries of South-East Europe (SEE), Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (EECCA) — now also available in Russian — shows that the region is facing many challenges in the wake
Broadband television provider TidalTV, Inc. (www.tidaltv.com) has partnered with NBC News and TV Guide Network to feature each provider's programming on the TidalTV website, which will offer consumers free and instant access to professionally produced online video programming via a
The popular German encryption tool ArchiCrypt Live 5 (Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista) is now available in English. ArchiCrypt Live 5 uses real-time encryption to encrypt and password protect sensitive data. It encrypts all types of files. Pictures, mp3 files, office documents and
