Fiction that Matters

Monday to Wednesday 29 – 31^st October
Wits University, Johannesburg.

BOOKING NOW OPEN!

This year we welcome ◊ Heather Brook on her  dispatches from the information war – journalism in a digital age ◊ Gabriel Tabatchiek and the team from Brazil who ran the Secret Diaries and brought down a government  ◊ Ying Chan from China where investigative journalism thrives and how  journalists use weibei (China’s twitter)  ◊ Former AU rapporteur on freedom of expression Pansy Tlakula will give the  inaugural Carlos Cardosa lecture ◊ Tim Butcher – why good writing matters ◊ Mzilikazi wa Afrika andStephan Hofstatteron the danagers of investigating the police in  the Cato Manor death squad ◊ Julian Rademeyer will talk about launch his book on rhino poaching Killing for Profit  ◊ Athandiwa Saba on filing your freedom of information request ◊ Kassim Mohammed writing about terrorism in East Africa ◊ Follow the money with Rob Rose 

Courses include: ◊ Data journalism from beginners to advanced  ◊ Tell your story, from a good opening to a the last full stop (or the credits)  ◊ How to follow the money ◊ Mining in Africa  ◊ Agricultural policy across Africa  ◊ Journalists and the law – libel and defamation,  the Protection of Information Bill ◊