Tony Curzon Price interviews Anton Harber, leading journalist, editor and media academic in South Africa. What are the proposed reforms? What is their likely impact, and what is the cause of the assault?
How serious are the assaults on press freedom in South Africa?
The proposed Information BiIl and Media Tribunals are a serious assault on press freedom in South Africa. They ultimately come out of the internal wranglings of a party that needs not fear the loss of office
Tony Curzon Price
Tony Curzon Price was editor-in-chief of openDemocracy from 2007 to 2012.
Anton Harber
Anton Harber is the Caxton Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and director of the Journalism Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.He has had a long career in journalism, media management and the training of journalists. He blogs at TheHarbinger.
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