"This handbook is intended to be a desk reference for small, independent and community media organisations, equipping journalists with the following tools: enable small independent and community media to counter growing media censorship in South Africa, and to ensure that these media are aware of their rights and how to protect and enforce them; provide user-friendly information about the current state of the law of defamation, and to provide checklists to see whether particular reports are defamatory; provide useful information about what to do if particular reports do attract threats or legal action; ensure that a working knowledge of media freedom issues is also built up at paralegal and advice office level, so that legal capacity is built to support grassroots media; inform such media about the other laws in existence that affect their ability to report; ensure that journalists are appraised of their rights around source protection, so that they are not pressurized to reveal confidential sources; appraise these media of the complexity of the questions around the use of journalists as witnesses; encourage these media to become freedom of expression advocates, and to appraise them of the avenues available to lobby on specific freedom of expression issues." (Summary)