R2K’s Tabloid: Your Right2Know (Oct 2014)
The first edition of R2K’s tabloid, Your Right2Know, is released today before our R2K Day of Action. MORE MEDIA! BETTER MEDIA! OUR DEMANDS ARE SIMPLE DEMAND THAT THE SABC SERVE THE PUBLIC! DIGITAL TV:...
Category: Media Freedom
Memorandums delivered on the National Day of Action for the Right to Communicate
Today, 18 October 2014, is the Right2Know Campaign’s National Day of Action for the Right to Communicate. In Johannesburg we will deliver memorandums to Naspers/Media24 and the SABC. In Cape Town we will hand memorandums to the...
Why we need to break up the media monopolies!
The South African print media is dominated by four big companies that control over 80% of all newspapers and magazines (with Media24/Naspers controlling 40% alone). When so few people have control over press freedom...
STATEMENT: National of Action Day for the Right to Communicate
National of Action Day for the Right to Communicate R2K statement for immediate release: 15 October 2014 The Right2Know Campaign will be holding a National Day of Action for the Right to Communicate on...
R2K & SOS Call for Inclusive Digital Television and Free Set-Top-Boxes
The Right2Know Campaign and & SOS Coalition have published a Call for Inclusive Digital Television and Free Set-Top-Boxes. Download the PDF here. In summary, the migration from analogue to digital television will determine the communication landscape for years to...
Saturday 18 October: National Day of Action for the Right to Communicate
On Saturday 18 October the Right2Know Campaign calls on everyone in South Africa to join a National Day Of Action for Media Freedom, Diversity and the Right to Communicate. MORE MEDIA! BETTER MEDIA! OUR...
AIP study on international models of government support for media diversity
The Association of Independent Publishers (AIP) have just published an important research report on international models of government support for media diversity in the print media. The report titled “Developing Media Diversity: Baseline Study of...
STATEMENT: The Right2Know Campaign condemns the targeted silencing of journalists in Gaza
Issued by the Right2Know Campaign, 08 August 2014 The Right2Know Campaign joins those in mourning the tragic and entirely avoidable loss of lives in the on-going hostilities in the Gaza Strip. Further, the Right2Know...
STATEMENT: R2K to Protest Picket outside Swazi Embassy in Pretoria
Issued by the Right2Know Campaign, 29 July 2014 To voice our outrage at the blatant attacks on freedom of expression and a free press in Swaziland, the Right2Know Campaign will hold a protest picket...
STATEMENT: Right2Know Campaign says “reverse” Swazi judgment now!
Issued by the Right2Know Campaign, 21 July 2014 The Right2Know Campaign condemns the Swaziland High Court’s judgment handed down last Thursday which found journalists Bheki Makhubu and Thulani Maseko guilty of “scandalising the judiciary”....
