"The fourth annual report looks at jobs in the newsroom, fake news and fact-checking journalism, and highlights the problem of threats to media freedom in South Africa. In a survey conducted across a range of newsrooms both big and small, it found that young, black women journalists are more likely to find work in South African newsrooms than any other demographic. The survey also confirmed that, with one or two exceptions, young, less experienced journalists are writing the news we read every day. While its overview of honours research into fake news suggests there might not be as much of it circulating in this country as we imagine, it also found that fact-checking journalism has yet to gain the traction in South African newsrooms as a marketable genre in the way that it has elsewhere in the world." (http://journalism.co.za/resources/state-of-the-newsroom)
The newsroom in review: 2017, 1
How real is "fake news" in South Africa? 10
Getting the story straight: The take up of fact-checking journalism in South African newsrooms over the past five years / Bob Wekesa, Blessing Vava and Hlabangani Mtshali, 21
Newsroom Survey 2017: Journalists in South Africa’s newsrooms: Who are they, what do they do and how are their roles changing? / Alastair Otter and Laura Grant, 28