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CAPE TOWN – The South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) has said it remains committed to strengthening ethical journalism at a time when access to accurate information is crucial.
The forum s ethics and credibility online conference was held on Saturday, 15 May 2021.
The webinar is the culmination of talks that sparked in 2019 when Sanef commissioned the inquiry into media credibility and ethics.
A report was released earlier this year, with a plan to engage members of the editors’ forum and civil society to formulate a five-year plan to improve ethics and quality journalism.
Keynote speaker Justice Bernard Ngoepe said the guiding principle for journalists in making a positive contribution to society is to determine an objective.
Karima Brown stood on the shoulders of giants in journalism
By Opinion
Marlan Padayachee
On Sunday, independent 24-hour news channel eNCA paid a fitting and final farewell to its TV host, Karima Brown, and did a reprise on some of her excellent interviews on her show,
The Fix, that relived the prowess of a brave-hearted commentator until Covid-19 ended her colourful and controversial career last week.
Coronavirus continued its ruthless march at the weekend, taking more high-profile lives of that of top business leader Peter Matlare and Durban’s first black mayor, Sipho Ngwenya, and scores of other victims.
Born Karima Semaar of Muslim faith in Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town, on May 20, in death, Karima Brown shone a light on the country’s controversial and complex media landscape. At 53, she lost her battle to survive coronavirus.
In the run-up to the start of the second phase of South Africa’s vaccine roll-out, the National Department of Health has received a large number of applications from different sectors wanting to be considered as essential workers. However, the process of defining who falls within the category of essential workers “is not yet complete”, said Acting Chief Director of Child, Youth and School Health at the National Department of Health, Dr Lesley Bamford, on Thursday.
Frontline healthcare workers have been the first to receive their jab of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine and as of Wednesday, 3 March, 92,029 frontline healthcare workers had been vaccinated under the Sisonke Protocol since vaccinations began on 17 February.
Racism claims against reporter are ‘maliciously misleading’ – eNCA
eNCA has said that the racism allegations being levelled against its political reporter Lindsey Dentlinger is unfair and unfortunate
Independent television news channel eNCA has come to the defence of its political reporter Lindsey Dentlinger, after she was accused of being racist. A video clip of Dentlinger has gone viral, showing her asking black politicians, including the United Democratic Movement’s (UDM) Nqabayomzi Kwankwa and African National Congress (ANC) MP Bongani Bondo, to put on their mask. However she is also seen conducting interviews with the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) John Steenhuisen and FF Plus leader Pieter Groenewald, without masks.