Local Journalism Project Case Study: Daily Dispatch   The backstory: Founded in 1872, the Daily Dispatch became the first penny daily newspaper published in the Eastern Cape in 1898, and has been an advocate for fair treatment of all South Africans ever since. Due to the South African media’s reliability on the declining advertisement model, […]

This story is part of IPI’s Local Journalism Project. Read more here. Scrolling through the news on a mobile phone might be taken for granted in some parts of the world, but in many parts of Africa, it’s a luxury. South Africa’s mobile data rates are among the most expensive in the world, and without […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) mourns the death of Peter Preston, the long-time editor of Britain’s the Guardian newspaper and former IPI chair known for his staunch defence of press freedom. A leading figure of British journalism, Preston joined the Guardian in 1963 and assumed the paper’s top position in 1975 at the age of […]