Journalists need to be taught how to be entrepreneurs so they can contribute to the survival of the media industry, said Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, chairman of the APO Group...
Louise Burgers 16 Dec 2019
The future of journalism is about the future of democracy, but all over the world journalism is in a crisis - a crisis that threatens not only the journalism sector but democracy itself...
Danette Breitenbach 30 Aug 2019
One of the first Loeries Masterclasses for the day was hosted by Brand SA. Sithembile Ntombela, acting chief marketing officer of Brand SA, opened the floor for speakers stating that the session was about building the South African brand, and how all stakeholders can (and should) be involved...
Angie White 22 Aug 2019
Rachel Briant, director and head of communications at Without A Doubt agency writes about preserving the old craft and what marketers can do about it...
Rachel Briant 12 Jul 2019
Jessica Tennant reports back on Charles Stuart's analysis of the annual 'Entertainment Media Outlook: An African Perspective', specifically with regard to three key trends in the entertainment and media space...
Jessica Tennant 31 Jan 2019
Jennifer Thomas, an award-winning, veteran American broadcast journalist, was invited by the United States Embassy (South Africa) to address the Cape Town Press Club on media coverage of elections in the age of fake news late last month...
Juanita Pienaar 14 Nov 2018
My career in media started somewhere in the 80's. Needless to say, what we do today in media and what we did 'back in the day' is poles apart, mostly due to media choices being extremely limited...
Margie Knap 15 Oct 2018
Media rights groups in Nigeria are condemning a bill that will regulate the practice of journalism in the West African country...
Louise Burgers 3 Aug 2018
Reporters Without Borders has recommended that media organisations and journalists around the world strengthen training in digital security in the face of increasing cyberviolence...
Louise Burgers 31 Jul 2018
Marc du Plessis, joint CEO of Spark Media and head of the Publisher Council of the IAB, gave a keynote address at Future Ad Africa in Johannesburg yesterday on the subject of brand safety, trust and supporting the independent press...
Jessica Tennant 15 Mar 2018
Publications can improve advertising revenues if they take advantage of real-time print adverts and that will help not only their ailing fortunes but the ailing fortunes of publishing printers, too...
Vaughan Patterson 18 Apr 2017
The Mail & Guardian has appointed seasoned journalist, editor and digital strategist Verashni Pillay as its new Editor-in-Chief...
Louise Burgers 5 Oct 2015
Over the years, advertising has lost its psychological influence and subliminal power. These days, consumers and the public in general value the information they find in respectable media sources...
Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard 30 Sep 2015
He has made it his mission 'to expose, through my investigations, the scourge of corruption, which is robbing (Angola) of billions of dollars a year': journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques de Morais...
Anton Harber 20 Mar 2015
If journalists in Zimbabwe had stood up in that country's parliament to protest against interference with their cellphone signals, they would have been laughed out of the place...
Anton Harber 2 Mar 2015
Coverage of the rest of Africa in our media provides an interesting gauge of our relationship with the continent since our borders opened up 20 years ago...
Anton Harber 5 Dec 2014
I think SA should recall its ambassador to Swaziland and threaten to close our borders with the country. I am not joking...
Anton Harber 22 Aug 2014
IBM believes that traditional media and entertainment companies that move fast to embrace and monetise digital channels stand to win back their audiences and their advertising revenue, despite...
Shane Radford 14 Aug 2014
It may be imprudent to write this about someone who is spending $10m on African journalism. But then, of all the things I have been accused of in my time, prudence was never among them.
Anton Harber 7 Feb 2014
The African Media Leaders Forum in Addis Ababa last week ended on a weak note: Politicians want the media to generate a new, positive African narrative.
Anton Harber 15 Nov 2013
NEWSWATCH: There's good and bad news out of Angola: Mail & Guardian reports that an Angolan journalist has won a top award recognising his fight against graft and human rights abuses, and speaking of the latter... a 17-year-old has been imprisoned for allegedly insulting the country's president.
Rod Baker 8 Nov 2013
As Friday's aircraft to Brazil rolled down the runway at OR Tambo International Airport with most of South Africa's investigative reporters on board, I wondered what would happen to our journalism if it went down...
Anton Harber 21 Oct 2013
Using words to soothe or shout isn't always that easy, because the receiver can't hear you. But in front of an audience, be it a presentation, press conference or a televised interview, your voice and face says it all.
Marion Scher 16 Oct 2013
The 18th CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards is taking place tomorrow night, 12 October 2013 at the CTICC where finalists will be recognised for their excellent journalism across the continent.
Ilse van den Berg 11 Oct 2013
There has been a lot written in the past few weeks about the challenges posed to the online publishing community by the litigation between Moneyweb and Fin24, and a not unsubstantial amount of this opinion has been a mix of journalistic petulance and hysteria.
Chris Moerdyk 3 Oct 2013
I received an email this morning from a colleague who, some would think quite cheekily, asked me for my press listing for a particular industry...
Marion Scher 27 Sep 2013
Y&R is committed to having 20 agencies on the African continent by 2015. Leading the charge to achieve this is Yossi Schwartz, chairman of Y&R South Africa.
Danette Breitenbach 5 Sep 2013
He was one of the most popular and prolific writers of our time. He started out writing westerns, then turned his talents to crime fiction.
James Hurford 23 Aug 2013
Reflections on textual pickpocketing... by a victim of copy thieves.
Tiffany Markman 24 Jul 2013
'Who shot JR?' pales in comparison to the current epic media maelstrom on whether Nelson Mandela is alive or not. Is he alive? Will he survive this near death experience? No one really knows, but just about everybody is debating it.
John French 3 Jul 2013
