Off The Record

In our season finale, Nyaki speaks with Lindi Sirame, a news anchor at Metro FM on some of the highs and lows of her career. We also hear from Lindi on the role that family play in her life as she pursues her career.

This is the penultimate episode of Off The Record, the podcast that talks to journalists and news personalities about the stories they cover and what it takes to get those stories to our big and small screens. In this episode, we hear from Mmatshepo Oganne, a former journalist and graduate of the Y-Academy. She shares her views on females in the industry and talks about her experiences with her health and wellbeing.

TV news broadcasters play a vital role in our society. In this episode we speak with Pelane Phakgadi, a senior news journalist and television broadcaster about his experience working in television newsrooms. We also talk with him about the reality of social and political pressures journalists experience in the carrying out of their professional duties.

In this episode, we bring you behind the scenes and into the spaces where the news is curated. Our host speaks with Katleho Sekhotho about harassment in the workplace. Katleho also shares about her drive to tell the stories she loves.

In this episode we talk with a young news reporter, Bonga Dlulani, on his experience covering the October 2015 Fees Must Fall movement which took place in South Africa. We also speak with him about he navigates being a journalist on social media in todays world.

In this episode we talk with Busisiwe Gumede, an award winning radio and television journalist about her experience of navigating through the industry as a young journalist and what it has been like for her covering difficult and important stories. Stories like the Mall of Africa taxi violence that took place in 2016.

Karen discusses her views on the changing news industry as activism and the role of digital in newsrooms take up more space.

Being a journalist in a country with wide spread inequality and injustice means that doing your job places you in the firing line a lot of the time. The attacks you face daily and the pain and suffering you witness etch into the mind of anyone on the job. We sit down with award winning senior radio and television journalist, Malungelo Booi, to discuss his experiences in the industry.