A REFLECTION: World Press Freedom Day: SA drops in international rankings By Tessa Knight
Trust in the media, as well as media freedom, is becoming more tenuous every day. American President Donald Trump continues to claim negative press as “fake” and news reporters and editors around the world are still being killed for exposing truths, whether they live in countries with or without media freedom.
In 2018, 54 journalists were killed, a significant increase from 2017, which saw 47 journalists across the world killed. The last officially reported murder of a journalist in South Africa happened in 2014. But in 2019, South Africans have borne witness to numerous verbal attacks on journalists, including the publication of journalist and broadcast show host Karima Brown’s cellphone number by EFF leader Julius Malema on Twitter. Brown was subjected to a barrage of verbal and cyber abuse after the tweet, with supporters of Malema and the EFF even threatening her life.
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