The level of journalism skills in South African media: a reason for concern within a developing democracy?

Abstract

This article draws on results of the South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) journalism skills audit conducted in 2002. The research purpose was to conduct a national situation analysis of journalism skills among reporters. The research followed Sanef's continuing efforts to re‐position journalism skills training at tertiary level. Results reveal a lack of reporting, writing and accuracy skills among reporters, highlighted both by reporters themselves, and news editors' evaluation of these skills.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 28 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.