Tshikululu Social Investments, the non-profit company that manages social investment grant making for Anglo American, De Beers, the FirstRand Group and Discovery, among others, has launched a new website to serve as an information and opinion resource for the local corporate social investment (CSI) industry. 8 Feb 2010 11:02
Veteran technology journalist Sean Bacher has been appointed editor of what is reputed to be South Africa's longest-running online technology magazine, Gadget. 8 Feb 2010 09:40
Hot off the press, the 31st Loerie printed annual of 313 pages is now available with a complementary DVD set at R605 (excl. vat). 5 Feb 2010 09:29
A new dual-degree programme, beginning in August 2010, will allow students to study journalism in both New York and Johannesburg, announced the Wits Department of Journalism and the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, earlier this week. 5 Feb 2010 08:51
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Collins Chabane, minister in the presidency in charge of performance monitoring and evaluation, and government spokesperson Themba Maseko last night, Thursday, 4 February 2010, made an impassioned plea to South African journalists to participate in the SADC Media Awards competition, saying it promotes regional integration and togetherness through excellent journalism. 5 Feb 2010 08:18
Neal Farrell has been appointed as publisher of RamsayMedia's custom publishing division, adding to his role as general manager of digital publishing. 5 Feb 2010 07:24
NEWSWATCH: A number of observers have commented in the past that SABC is overstaffed, and now the Minister of Communications has announced the report findings by the ministerial team he tasked last year with finding ways in which the SABC could cut its expenditure - and it may not be good news for some SABC and Sentech staff, as well, reports Times Live. 5 Feb 2010 07:13
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] The Congress of the People has launched a scathing attack on communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda for ‘eroding' the independence of the public broadcaster and communications regulator ICASA. 4 Feb 2010 12:22
A special January 2010 edition of AdVantage, which focuses on what we can expect from 2010 across the media, marketing and advertising industry, includes the predicted 100 ‘things' that you should watch out for in 2010. JWT Johannesburg has collated this in collaboration with Ann Mack, its global trend expert. 4 Feb 2010 11:54
NEWSWATCH: The Press Council has come out fighting, following what it terms an “unwarranted attack” on the press by Jacob Zuma, who says the media furore around his fathering of yet another child questions the child's right to exist, reports IOL. 4 Feb 2010 07:07
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) ealier this week issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of media killings, including 32 victims of a single massacre in Maguindanao, the Philippines, last November. 3 Feb 2010 08:29
NEWSWATCH: Following media outrage at what many viewed as the soccer body's overly restrictive and dictatorial conditions media would be obliged to adhere to in reporting on the World Cup, FIFA now says that the conditions weren't and have “never been, to restrict press freedom”, reports IOL, which also reports that the SA Students' Congress is none too pleased with the media and its reporting on the addition to the president's growing brood. 3 Feb 2010 07:19