In a break from lamenting the state of our mainstream news media, I want to examine two local media ventures which are exploring new paths.

The online news publication New Frame suspended operations last week when its funder –Jamaican-American tech magnate Roy Singham - unexpectedly pulled the plug.

Disinformation is not a new problem. There have always been those who used whatever media was available to spread malicious disinformation for the purposes of making money, scoring political points

The problem has escalated to such an extent that the editors’ forum has turned to professionals for help

The robustly rebounding book industry is a sober lesson to all who try to predict the impact of new media technology.

The Pretoria News’s fact-free story did enormous damage at a time when journalism is battling disinformation

Perhaps we don’t pay enough attention to how important free speech is to the economy and prosperity

The Seychelles knocked Namibia off its best-in-Africa perch this month. Not as a tourism destination but as a place hospitable to journalists (though these might be related).

Two billionaires now control the four biggest global social media platforms, the “de facto public town square … [and] bedrock of our democracy ”, in Elon Musk’s words.

The Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Reporting is an annual ray of sunshine in our often foggy journalism world.