INTERVIEW We’re not the ATM: Google says no to Competition Commission’s R500m proposal to fund SA news 7 min 25 By Ferial Haffajee
PHOTO ESSAY Vision of Hope — Limpopo hospital’s cataract ops restore sight to disadvantaged patients 4 min 1 By Alet Pretorius
PHOTO ESSAY Sony World Photography Awards Creative and Still Life Finalists 2025 7 min 0 By Sony World Photography Awards
PHOTO ESSAY The Sony World Photography Awards: The 2025 Open competition 5 min 0 By Sony World Photography Awards
CLIMATE OF DOUBT Tobacco Playbook Redux? Greenwashing report calls for a fossil fuel ad ban in SA 8 min 1 By Kristin Engel
PHOTO ESSAY In Pictures: The Life and Legacy of South African playwright Athol Fugard. 4 min 1 By Daily Maverick
MEDIA UNDER ATTACK Global crackdown: 361 journalists jailed amidst rising government repression and instability in 2024 5 min 3 By Nonkululeko Njilo
GOOD NEWS ROUND-UP Oops, he painted again — uplifting reads to make your day 1 min 0 By Daily Maverick
THE CONVERSATION Murder junkies — the Menendez brothers and how true crime influences legal proceedings 5 min 1 By Michael Arntfield
ON THE DOT(TED) LINE Competition Commission rubber-stamps Media24 sale to Novus 3 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
LETTER FROM THE DM168 EDITOR Press Council expulsion is another blow to the credibility of Iqbal Survé’s Independent Media 7 min 26 By Heather Robertson
WHAT WE'RE WATCHING From District 9 to The Fix – Visually appealing but somewhat superficial 4 min 1 By Noelle Adams
ANALYSIS Fascism’s strange resurgence — a ‘bad Jew’ South African breaks bread with the German media 15 min 96 By Kevin Bloom
Letter from the DM168 Editor Bitter Medicine: Why cost-cutting in government and companies can be essential for a healthy future 5 min 5 By Heather Robertson
EDITORIAL CHANGE Daily Maverick — Branko Brkic to step down as editor-in-chief, deputy editor Jillian Green to take up the mantle 3 min 48 By Daily Maverick
GROUNDUP MEDIA ANALYSIS Understanding the hard-hitting Press Council ruling against Iqbal Survé’s newspapers 4 min 2 By Ombud Watcher for GroundUp
FAKING IT 84% of surveyed Africans rely on social media as their primary news source 3 min 14 By Lisakanya Venna
WAR BY PROXIES Cyberattackers use easily available tools to target media sites, threaten press freedom 8 min 0 By Jonathan Rozen
ROAD TO 2024 ELECTIONS ANALYSIS Political party manifestos say very little about the current media crisis — why? 5 min 0 By Shaun Smillie
