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Media & Entertainment Law

Newly launched Free Expression Legal Network to increase protection for media freedom

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Source: © The Economic Times President-elect Donald Trump is making a U-turn on banning TikTok in the US

Media Freedom

Trump's U-turn on the banning of TikTok

Danette Breitenbach 2 Jan 2025

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Media & Entertainment Law

ConCourt judgment: Balancing on the fine line between freedom of expression and right to privacy

Ahmore Burger-Smidt and Dale Adams 9 Dec 2024

Social Media

Zuckerberg regrets bowing to government pressure on Covid-19 censorship

30 Aug 2024

Linda Shwana, candidate attorney at Herold Gie Attorneys

Law Practice

#YouthMonth: Striving for equity - Linda Shwana

Shan Radcliffe 30 Jun 2024

Consumer insights company, KLA delves into voter sentiment ahead of the SA elections

Research

Consumer insights company, KLA delves into voter sentiment ahead of the SA elections

Candice Ulrich, Issued by KLA 17 May 2024

Media Freedom

2 Tunisian journalists jailed pending trial, bolstering fears for free speech

Tunisian newsroom 16 May 2024

Nutrition

Noakes Foundation to support and fund unconventional research on diet and healthcare

18 Apr 2024

Source: © Unesco Today radio celebrates 100 years

Radio & Audio

#WorldRadioDay: Celebrating a century of informing, entertaining and educating

Danette Breitenbach 13 Feb 2024

Community radio. Additional value beyond the schedule

Radio & Audio

Community radio. Additional value beyond the schedule

Candy Dempers, Issued by MediaHeads 360 25 Jan 2024

Challengers to Watch 2023: Mastodon

Social Media

Challengers to Watch 2023: Mastodon

Nick Geoghegan, Issued by eatbigfish 24 Jul 2023

Media Freedom

Tunisian journalist detained after criticising president

Tarek Amara, Stephen Coates 21 Jun 2023

Social Media

'Outright lie': India denies Dorsey's claims it threatened to shut down Twitter

Kanishka Singh, Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Aditya Kalra, Simon Cameron-Moore, Raju Gopalakrishnan 13 Jun 2023

Social Media

How to include TikTok when building a winning brand?

Issued by Stone 28 Feb 2023

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Media

Musk suspends prominent journalists

19 Dec 2022

Source © Ufuk Uyanik Craig Hanabus says it’s very likely that Twitter is dead

Social Media

Is Musk putting the twit back into Twitter?

Craig Hannabus 28 Nov 2022

Think points on the recent Loeries article: A message from The Loeries to the industry

Loeries Creative Week

Think points on the recent Loeries article: A message from The Loeries to the industry

Issued by Sibusiso Sitole on behalf of the Loeries board 23 Nov 2022

2022 - A year of misery or optimism for marketers? Part 1

Marketing

2022 - A year of misery or optimism for marketers? Part 1

Tom Manners, Issued by Clockwork 7 Nov 2022

Social Media

Why Elon Musk's first week as Twitter owner has users flocking elsewhere

Diana Bossio 4 Nov 2022

Image supplied. John Hunt accepting accepted his award at the black-tie Creative Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Tisch Skylights at The Shed in Hudson Yards

Advertising

Legendary SA creative, John Hunt inducted into Creative Hall of Fame

1 Nov 2022

Elon Musk takes Twitter private - here's what that means for the company and its chances of success

Services

Elon Musk takes Twitter private - here's what that means for the company and its chances of success

Erik Gordon 1 Nov 2022

Source: © Weerapat Kiatdumrong Black Wednesday in 1977 is remembered as SA Media Freedom Day

Media Freedom

Remembering SA World Media Freedom Day

Danette Breitenbach 20 Oct 2022

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Legislation

Media groups ask Uganda's top court to scrap law over free speech fears

Elias Biryabarema 18 Oct 2022

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends a news conference following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Entebbe, Uganda 26 July 2022. Russian Foreign Ministry/Handout via Reuters

Media & Entertainment Law

Ugandan president signs law critics say will stifle free speech

Elias Biryabarema 14 Oct 2022

Source: © rvlsoft What will Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter mean for ‘free speech’ on the platform?

Media Freedom

What will Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter mean for 'free speech' on the platform?

John Hawkins & Michael James Walsh 29 Apr 2022

Source: © tmz.com

Social Media

Twitter: The digital town square of free speech?

Danette Breitenbach 26 Apr 2022

Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44bn

Social Media

Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44bn

Katja Hamilton 26 Apr 2022

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Social Media

Elon Musk becomes Twitter's largest shareholder

6 Apr 2022

Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards entries open

Media

Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards entries open

15 Mar 2022

Burkina Faso restricts social media

Social Media

Burkina Faso restricts social media

23 Nov 2021

#Newswatch: Nando's takes Gareth Cliff off the menu

Radio & Audio

#Newswatch: Nando's takes Gareth Cliff off the menu

Emily Stander 25 Oct 2021

"This is hate speech" - ConCourt rules

Human Rights Law

"This is hate speech" - ConCourt rules

Dakalo Singo 4 Aug 2021

Media

False story about decuplets was a low point for journalism: how to fix the damage

Franz Krüger 5 Jul 2021

Andrew Duvenage, MD, NFB Private Wealth Management.

Trends

#BizTrends2021: The 4 themes for the new year

Andrew Duvenage, 14 Jan 2021

#PulpNonFiction: Get into the habit of training naked

#PulpNonFiction

#PulpNonFiction: Get into the habit of training naked

Bronwyn Williams 7 Dec 2020

#PulpNonFiction: Internet or Splinternet - it's up to us to decide

#PulpNonFiction

#PulpNonFiction: Internet or Splinternet - it's up to us to decide

Bronwyn Williams 2 Nov 2020

Digital democracy is still a long way off in Africa: it takes more than technology

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Digital democracy is still a long way off in Africa: it takes more than technology

Nic Cheeseman and Lisa Garbe 2 Oct 2020

What's the limit for free speech? Concourt to hear Qwelane case

Media & Entertainment Law

What's the limit for free speech? Concourt to hear Qwelane case

Tania Broughton 16 Sep 2020

#PulpNonFiction: Truth and trash in the circular economy

#PulpNonFiction

#PulpNonFiction: Truth and trash in the circular economy

Bronwyn Williams 24 Aug 2020

Julia Sudnitskaya/Shutterstock via The Conversation.

Social Media

Africans are concerned about ills of social media but oppose government restrictions

Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz 3 Jun 2020

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi is arrested during a protest in Nairobi in 2014. AFP via Getty Images.

Media

New media voices are telling Kenya's Covid-19 stories - from the ground up

Wambui Wamunyu 18 May 2020

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Media & Entertainment Law

Legal pitfalls of offensive branding - Part 2

Kareema Shaik 19 Nov 2019

Social Media

Reddit 'cleans up' content as it reworks its ad strategy

3 Oct 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty Images.

Media Freedom

Of foxes and paradoxes in the media henhouse

Derek Abdinor 17 Sep 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Social Media

How Uganda is using old and new laws to block activists on social media

Ronald Kakungulu-Mayambala 10 Sep 2019

The statue of founding president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere in Tanzania’s political capital Dodoma. Credit: WikiCommons.

Media Freedom

Why Tanzania's attacks on free speech break with Nyerere's legacy

Nick Westcott 4 Sep 2019

Stream these true crime doccies

TV

Stream these true crime doccies

Issued by Showmax 22 Aug 2019

Unifying open source and proprietary software

Software

Unifying open source and proprietary software

David Cosgrave 4 Jul 2019