The Media and the Law: a Handbook for Community Journalists is a handbook that enables small independent and community media to counter growing media censorship in South Africa, and to ensure that the media is aware of their rights and how to protect and enforce them. The handbook provides user-friendly information about the current state of the law of defamation, and to provide checklists to see whether particular reports are defamatory. In addition, it provides useful information about what to do if particular reports do attract threats of legal action.

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