Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid The Sun says police raids against its journalists were part of a "witch-hunt" that had left Britain behind former Soviet states on press freedom.
Businessman Lazarus Zim and the controversial Gupta family have cut business ties.
Malaysian police have detained a journalist from Saudi Arabia who allegedly made Twitter comments insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, police say.
Rupert Murdoch's eldest son Lachlan has been appointed chairperson of commercial broadcaster Network Ten as it looks to make inroads on its key Australian rivals.
An Ecuadoran court has ordered two journalists to pay President Rafael Correa $2m in damages in the latest high-profile court case testing freedom of expression in the country.
A new law has taken effect in Ecuador to regulate the media, banning the broadcast or publishing of reports government authorities believe favour certain candidates or ideologies.
Public hearings on the protection of state information bill are scheduled to continue in Bloemfontein, after hearings in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape.
Press freedom organisations have denounced plans by the Zimbabwe media controller to have some foreign newspapers banned, ahead of possible elections this year.
He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one - or at least that's the story a Jobs look-alike tells in a recent TV commercial.
Opposition politicians and activists have accused the ANC of manipulating hearings on the protection of state information bill.
Suspended national police commissioner Bheki Cele said a doctored picture of him holding a gun undermined his job when he was KwaZulu-Natal safety and security MEC.
The Press Freedom Commission needs to acknowledge the negative effect regulation would have on community newspapers, says the Caxton Community Newspapers group.
Print and online publications are different forms of media that require separate regulation, the Press Freedom Commission has heard.
Newspapers should be issued with a "space fine" when they contravene aspects of the Press Code, says Independent Newspapers.
The South African media is still being controlled by a white minority who have been in power since apartheid, says UDM leader Bantu Holomisa.
The ANC has made its presentation to the Press Freedom Commission in which it argues the possibility of Parliament having oversight of a media appeals tribunal shouldn’t be excluded.
Several political parties, including the ANC, are scheduled to make representations to the Press Freedom Commission.
The SABC has been asked to suspend its search for a chief operating officer, the communication ministry says.
The SA Human Rights Commission is not particularly worried about tension between the media and the government, says chairperson Lawrence Mushwana.
The amended Press Code does not properly define or address plagiarism, Financial Mail editor Barney Mthombothi has said at the Press Freedom Commission hearings.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe is set to present the governing party’s long-awaited paper on media regulation to the Press Freedom Commission.
Floyd Shivambu claims he didn't think journalist Carien du Plessis was racist because she asked him questions related to a "clearly sexual interest" she had in another "African male".
Foreign spies who found it easy to access information in the past will not be happy when the protection of state information bill is passed, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele has told MPs.
The IFP has called for the creation of a "super body" to regulate the press in South Africa.
The press ombudsman takes too long to make rulings and insists on an unfair requirement regarding further action in court, Cosatu has told a commission on the regulation of print media.
The ad-hoc committee on the protection of state information bill has tussled over logistics ahead of hearings into the proposed law, which are expected to attract considerable public interest.
Former president Thabo Mbeki says he is sceptical about Twitter being a great conveyor of reliable knowledge.
President Jacob Zuma has appointed government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi to the Media Development and Diversity Agency board.
Media houses had done nothing wrong in naming Johan Kotzé and publishing details of his alleged crime before his appearance in court, the National Prosecuting Authority says.
The editor of the UK tabloid, Daily Star, describes exaggerated headlines, dramatised stories and going too far as their mission.
A French cameraman has been killed in Syria during a government-authorised trip to the restive city of Homs, the first Western journalist to be slain since the country's uprising began.
The case against an ANC Youth League member, who allegedly hit a journalist on the head with a brick, has been postponed for trial by the Polokwane Magistrate's Court.
The media has criticised the ANC for celebrating its past at the expense of the present as the last merrymakers from the party's 100th anniversary celebrations headed home.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has had a tilt at "the enemy" for wrongly predicting that he would not make it to the ANC's centenary celebrations.
A survey has found that 40% of South Africa's township residents have never heard of the protection of state information bill and don't know what it is about.
A non-governmental organisation that defends journalists' rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo has denounced an "escalation of repression" in the media around elections last month.
An Ethiopian court has sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in jail for supporting terrorism and entering the country illegally.
The court case of an ANC Youth League member who allegedly hit a journalist over the head with a brick has been postponed by the Polokwane Magistrate's Court.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has rejected a request from the media to investigate the state's arguments on the protection of state information bill.
CNN talk show host Piers Morgan is set to testify to the British inquiry into media ethics.
News agencies have been using CCTV cameras to spy on former president Nelson Mandela’s home in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape, according to a report.
Mac Maharaj, President Jacob Zuma’s spindoctor, and his wife, Zarina, have used an obscure remnant of apartheid law to lay a criminal complaint against City Press and Media24 Investigations over efforts to reveal details of their alleged lies to state investigators.
The press ombudsman has distanced himself from a tiff between the DA and Independent Newspapers over an ANC centenary celebration feature.
The Smithsonian Network has uncovered footage surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King.
The US has protested the increasing number of arrests of journalists and civic activists ahead of the completion of constitutional reforms and proposed elections in Zimbabwe.
There is a lack of media coverage on the laws, issues and policies relating to violence against women, a study has found.
The Democratic Alliance has launched an e-mobilisation campaign to stop the protection of state information bill in its current form.
Independent media monitors have been arrested in Zimbabwe using sweeping security laws.
South Africa's record as a beacon of democracy is being tarnished by the protection of state information bill, legal advocacy bodies say.
The Press Freedom Commission has extended the deadline for public comment on press freedom and regulation of the print media to December 15.
A seven-point campaign of resistance against the protection of state information bill has been hatched between editors, Cosatu, and the Right2Know Campaign.
Today, everyone in the office is dressed in black... Good luck to us all on this Black Tuesday, may the gods of journalism and freedom smile upon us.
Media group Avusa has advised that first half headline earnings per share are expected to be between 85% and 95% lower compared to last year.
Someone is determined to put an end to Nonhle Thema’s ugly Twitter rants. And now Thema has landed herself in legal trouble.
Marc Ashton het geen illusies oor Finweek nie. Die redakteurspos is iets wat talle moontlik van die hand sou wys, veral in die lig van die moeilike mark vir gedrukte publikasies, die kommer oor die toekoms van gedrukte media en ’n mate van verwarring oor die beste posisionering van saketitels.
CNN talk show host and former News of the World editor Piers Morgan has denied claims that he had taken part in phone hacking during his years as a journalist in Britain.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has dismissed complaints against a radio commercial concerning Israel for SA Artists Against Apartheid.
South Africa has received the worst possible rating on several governance aspects in an independent peer review report, with President Jacob Zuma and Parliament coming under fire.
Under new leadership, Mediacom’s South African subsidiary is shifting its focus from buying to strategy, parlaying the network’s global ambitions into “a new kind of media agency for this market,” promises local CEO Ian Manning, a South African expat who has returned after 10 years in London
Britain's biggest-selling newspaper has publicly apologised for hacking into the voicemail of numerous top celebrities.
Online company AOL is buying highly trafficked news website Huffington Post for $315m in a deal that will put co-founder Ariana Huffington in charge of all AOL content.
Naspers, Africa's biggest media company, has seen strong growth in its internet and pay television businesses, pushing its profit up by a third.
UPDATED: The editor-in-chief and four senior journalists have quit a day before the launch of The New Age newspaper, which is funded by a group close to the ANC.
Steve Hofmeyr has confirmed that he is in favour of the proposed media tribunal.
Local music stars Freshlyground have been told by a Zimbabwean immigration official to look to their new music video if they want to know why their visas were revoked.
The New Age, a daily broadsheet backed by the Gupta family and the Times of India, is to launch at a time when many see newspapers as victims of online growth.
Pride and nationalism are the dominant themes in the opinion sections of newspapers across the country.
Aspirant Mpumalanga radio DJs now have the chance to audition for their slot on radio with station MpowerFM hosting the Top Jock competition.
A discovery application forcing the Mail and Guardian and a journalist to reveal their sources will be damaging to the public interest, the South Gauteng High Court has heard.
Britain's biggest selling newspaper The Sun is in crisis after police arrested five journalists at the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid and three public officials over bribery allegations.
Spanish freelance photographer Samuel Aranda has won the coveted World Press Photo Award for his moving portrait of a veiled woman cradling a wounded relative in Yemen, say judges.
The ANC has accused a Western Cape High Court judge of depriving it of the right to appeal against a judgement he made on access to a report the party compiled.
Booing and arguments with committee members over support for the protection of state information bill have marred the NCOP's public hearing on the bill in Mangaung.
There has been a huge turnout for a public hearing on the protection of state information bill at the Bloemfontein Town Hall in Mangaung.
An ANC report into a "brown envelope" scandal involving former Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool and two Independent Newspapers journalists has been released to the newspaper group.
Television channel e.tv has been fined R35 000 for airing violent footage of the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Zimbabwe's media commission says it will ask authorities to ban foreign newspapers that are not registered to operate in the country.
The centre of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper clean-up operation is an unimposing set of offices in a corner of the company's campus in Wapping, east London.
The Mangaung metro council has ordered the removal of an advert for Volksblad newspaper in the Free State, which featured a picture of a luxury house for Premier Ace Magashule.
The office of the press ombudsman should be separated from the Press Council, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has told the Press Freedom Commission's public hearings.
The Democratic Alliance will oppose the creation of a media appeals tribunal should it be brought to Parliament for debate.
The Press Freedom Commission’s public hearings have kicked of with a firm warning for future digital freedoms.
President Jacob Zuma is not involved in any recruitment processes taking place within the SA Broadcasting Corporation, the presidency says.
The ANC has told the Press Freedom Commission that an independent media appeals tribunal is the most effective way to regulate the print media, and that it is not "anti-media".
The second journalist has been killed in Somalia in less than two months leaving the Media community in fear.
The media wants the right to express for itself, but denies others the same right, the Press Freedom Commission has heard.
The draft protection of state information bill fails to achieve the balance necessary in legislation, says the Congress of the People.
Several political parties, including the DA and ANC, are expected to make representations to the Press Freedom Commission when it resumes hearings this week.
The editor of The Times of London has said managers at the paper knew as far back as 2009 that one of their reporters had tried to intercept private e-mails.
The North Gauteng High Court has prohibited the further publication of photos or film footage of a Pretoria child whose mother, Chanelle Henning, was shot dead last year.
News of the World journalists used phone hacking, harassment and lies to secure scoops on missing British schoolgirl Milly Dowler, police say.
The National Press Club has named Public Protector Thuli Madonsela and ANC Youth League president Julius Malema as their joint newsmaker of the year.
The Roman Catholic Church has hung a banner across St Mary’s Cathedral opposite Parliament, protesting the possible passing of the protection of state information bill.
The International Press Institute has named Reuters columnist David Rohde this year's World Press Freedom Hero.
The editor of Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid says it's possible illegal phone hacking took place at the newspaper.
French prosecutors have launched a preliminary murder investigation into the death of French journalist Gilles Jacquier in Syria.
India ordered the arrest of a tour operator for running a "human safari" after a video emerged showing police making half-naked women from a tiny island tribe dance in return for food.
Britain's justice department was wrong to ban the BBC from filming an interview with a terror suspect held for seven years without trial, judges ruled have ruled.
A Western journalist was killed and a number of other reporters were wounded when a rocket exploded as they covered a story in the Syrian city of Homs.
Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has dismissed as "malicious" a report that he and Road Traffic Management Corporation acting head racked up thousands of rands in unpaid fines.
A flood of digital pictures is taken globally every second. Some have strong personal meaning. Many others have commercial potential.
Gabon authorities have slapped a temporary ban on two opposition media outlets after they covered an address to the nation by opposition leader Andre Mba Obame, who declared himself president last year.
Veteran journalist Veronica van der Westhuizen has died of pancreatic cancer in St George's Hospital in Port Elizabeth, a report says.
The BBC has ignited its second sexism spat in the space of a month by choosing a panda as one of its 12 female faces of the year.
Bookshelves groaning under the weight of every issue of American Vogue ever published since December 17 1892, and there have been about 2 800 of them, can now heave a sigh of relief.
An ANC Youth League member who allegedly hit a journalist over the head with a brick during a scuffle over fake voting cards will appear in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court.
The IFP wants the government to stop the criminal investigation against Reuters and AP for having set up cameras in Qunu, where former president Nelson Mandela now stays.
A review of Australia's media has recommended a major regulatory shakeup which will put internet giants under the same umbrella as traditional outlets and see ownership laws axed.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame says he has no problem with calls for the constitution to be changed to allow him to run for a third term.
The Committee to Protect Journalists is to hold a briefing on media freedom issues and its meeting with the ANC on the protection of state information bill.
The Democratic Alliance will lay an official complaint against Independent Newspapers with the press ombudsman over an ANC centenary celebration feature.
Russian state-run television news channels have turned a blind eye to post-election protests in Moscow and other cities, leaving internet sites as the only source of blow-by-blow coverage.
ANC MP Raseriti Tau has been elected chairperson of the National Council of Provinces' ad hoc committee on the protection of state information bill.
The ANC says a meeting with Sanef over the protection of state information bill allowed parties to listen to each other "beyond the noise that has been created in the media".
The ANC says a delegation of MPs is meeting with media editors as part of the party's ongoing engagement drive on the draft protection of state information bill.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Public Protector Thuli Madonsela have been chosen as the Johannesburg Press Club's 2011 Newsmakers of the Year.
The ANC never sought to impose the protection of state information bill on its members and society broadly, its parliamentary Chief Whip Mathole Motshekga says.
Parliament has named 15 members of the ad hoc committee that will see the contentious protection of state information bill through the National Council of Provinces.
Local celebrities have tweeted their thoughts on the controversial Protection of state information bill that will come before the National Assembly for a vote.
African Media Entertainment has reported an increase of diluted headline earnings per share to 191.4c for the first half.
Almost 35% of News Corp investors have voted against James Murdoch's reelection to the board.
A government task team investigating restrictions on alcohol advertising probably won't recommend an outright ban, according to a media report.
Marc Ashton is under no illusions about Finweek. The job of Editor is one many might have turned down, given the unpromising market for print publications, the concern about the future of print and a degree of confusion about the best positioning of business titles.
Britain's News of the World tabloid will print its last ever edition following a scandal over phone hacking.
Princess Diana has returned from the grave on the front cover of Newsweek in a picture that imagines her, and her life, as it might have been had she lived to mark her 50th birthday.
The government's R1bn a year advertising budget is a plan to bribe newspapers to publish only its view of news and affairs, says the SA National Editors' Forum.
Pop star Lady Gaga has ditched the music and switched to the media with a stint as a guest editor at the London headquarters of the global free newspaper network Metro.
For the world's media soon to descend on London for the royal wedding, fairytale endings don't come cheap.
The Media Workers' Association of South Africa has walked out of SABC turnaround strategy consultations, saying the broadcaster is just "mumbo jumbo".
We have embarked on a fresh wave of site improvements. Fin24 editor David McKay explains.
The nail-biting and ultimately joyful rescue of 33 men from deep in a Chilean mine has gripped the world's imagination with wall-to-wall media coverage.
Pressured print media may be signing their own death warrants by raising the cost of advertising.
Any attempt by government to restrict the free flow of information should be opposed, says one of South Africa's largest retailers.
Fashion label Diesel has been banned from using two adverts showing women in some provocative positions which the UK standards watchdog says could cause serious offence.
IF IT DOES NOTHING else, the launch of the subscriber television service Top TV should restore the public’s faith in free enterprise. The introduction of competition into the pay-TV market has sparked an immediate price war – unlike the cellphone business, which became a cosy little high-price cartel that absorbed or destroyed new entrants.
The PCB is considering a request from banned senior batsman Mohammad Yousuf to be reconsidered for national selection.