[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: The press ombudsman has dismissed Durban tycoon Vivian Reddy's complaint against the Mail & Guardian newspaper in its entirety, the newspaper reports, and Icasa is in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, reports BD Live. On a sad note, SABC television and radio presenter Vuyo Mbuli has died, reports Times Live.
20 May 2013 05:59
[Sara Butchart] It's a real art to create relevant, meaningful and entertaining broadcast content which has a comfortable space for clients to be integrated. It's an inversion of the classic marketing approach where the brand leads and the story follows.
18 May 2013 08:04
[Bonnie Ramaila] I have never understood why companies should have those closing and opening billboards before, during and after a TV programme, until I saw 1st for Women's sponsorship of the M-Net series, 'Revenge'.
8 May 2013 10:26
[Jessica Taylor] Peppermint tea and scrambled egg on rye. Good ol' no fuss food is what Sarah ordered and it's what her new cooking show is all about. Bitten: Sarah Graham Cooks Cape Town, an exploration of simple, unintimidating food and the way it should be enjoyed with the people we love.
30 Apr 2013 09:39[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Glitches in the voting on the POIB included a vote being recorded for a former MP who hasn't actually been in Parliament for a while, and a few who also weren't even there for the vote, reports Times Live.
30 Apr 2013 07:48 
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Communications Minister Dina Pule has blamed soccer legend Jomo Sono for what she alleges is a 'smear campaign' against her, reports City Press; meanwhile Stephen Grootes, writing for BD Live, suggests Pule might have reason to fear Zuma's next press conference. Mail & Guardian reports on the ANC's reaction to the DA's call for a redo on last week's POIB vote, and on IOL, Murray Williams asks whether porn is worse than many other industries?
29 Apr 2013 08:14
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: As expected, the controversial Protection of State Information Bill has been passed in the National Assembly, but will probably face a challenge in the Constitutional Court, reports Mail & Guardian, while Rebecca Hodes, writing in Daily Maverick, takes ASASA to task over the Xpanda ad that critics reckon is racist. In IOL, Caxton non-executive chairman Paul Jenkins says that established news outlets are not stifling the smaller players.
26 Apr 2013 08:22[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: As expected, MPs have adopted the Protection of State Information Bill report, reports Mail & Guardian, and in BD Live, Allister Sparks recounts how the late Mervyn Rees helped change the course of SA history - by doing exactly what many critics of the POIB believe the bill is designed to stamp out.
24 Apr 2013 06:41 
[Marion Scher] If I had a rand for every time I've heard this I'd be rich - which says a lot for what us freelancers get paid I guess...
19 Apr 2013 14:22
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Mergan Moodley, founder of On Digital Media (ODM), which owns TopTV, claims that the station is a pawn in some political game the IDC is playing, reports Mail & Guardian, and Financial Mail wonders what's behind Iqbal Survé's R2bn purchase of Independent Newspapers & Media SA (INM SA).
19 Apr 2013 09:00
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Dating in Iceland can be a little risky - you could be involved in a bit of incest without knowing it - until now, reports News.com.au; and closer to home, Dina Pule is concerned about the delay in finalising digital TV access control.
18 Apr 2013 07:40
[Chemory Gunko] With our highly competitive marketing landscape, and the ease with which anyone with a PC can create marketing collateral, it has become more important than ever before that your company has a strong brand identity.
17 Apr 2013 07:46
[Harry Herber] Sometimes you're amazed at how little you know. I'm not talking about the 702 'Brain of Johannesburg' competition, where the questions are aimed at anyone with a double digit IQ. I'm talking about the media industry.
15 Apr 2013 14:10
[Douglas Kruger] From Amoeba to Icon; where do you currently rank in your industry's natural progression? In this piece, I walk you through the seven stages of development as you strive to position yourself as an industry expert. [video]
13 Apr 2013 06:31
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: The Democratic Alliance wants Communications Minister Dina Pule investigated and charged with corruption over appointments made in her department, reports Mail & Guardian.
11 Apr 2013 06:23[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Remember that "Don't touch me on my studio" row? Well, now a charge of intimidation has been laid... three years after the event, reports IOL (video).
10 Apr 2013 08:14 
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: The DA and opposition parties reckon communications minister Dina Pule is not interested in her job, incompetent, and should go, reports BD Live. Meanwhile, Zuma has approved the SABC interim board, reports Mail & Guardian.
9 Apr 2013 06:26
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: According to an article by Nickolaus Bauer in Mail & Guardian, State-owned enterprises - SABC, SAA
et al are more than likely doomed to fail. The paper also reports that one of its cameramen was assaulted by Sandton City security guards, and IOL reports the ANC is very miffed with DStv after it inadvertently broadcast an advert for an obituary for Madiba. To end, TechCental reports ICASA has acted against iBurst's parent company.
4 Apr 2013 09:42[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: April Fools' day has come and gone, with the usual round of the weird and the wonderful, so here are some of the best - and a few that you would
think were gags, but weren't...
2 Apr 2013 06:30 
[Colin Ramparsadh] Bland can mean many things... Tasteless, mild, ordinary, boring and in some cases enough is enough and I can't take this anymore (video).
2 Apr 2013 06:03
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Communications Minister Dina Pule says claims that her lover appointed friends and family to organisations she controls are part of a 'smear campaign', reports Mail & Guardian, and Brand SA is looking somewhat battered, according to Johannes Myburgh, writing in Business Report.
25 Mar 2013 06:32
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: The interim board has been appointed, reports Mail & Guardian, but opposition MPs are unhappy at the haste at which it was approved, reports IOL; former board member Pippa Green reckons the SABC should be broken down into smaller pieces, reports EWN, and Telkom has relaunched its mobile arm, reports Moneyweb.
20 Mar 2013 06:15
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: The nation's most expensive tragicomic soapie continues with more board members resigning, leaving just three (well, two now), reports Daily Maverick, so the Parliamentary committee tasked with ending the Faulty Towers farce has to find an interim board... fast, reports Mail & Guardian, which also reports that it was
SLOWTIME! at the recent Saftas.
19 Mar 2013 09:18
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: It seems that communications minister Dina Pule offered a pal - Gugu Duda - a job, though Duda does not have the experience to do it, reports IOL, and in the UK, MPs vote today on press regulation. The Indian Express reports that 19-year-old men are the biggest victims of online bullying, and Science a Gogo says that someone jabbering on their mobile can be very distracting.
18 Mar 2013 08:58
[James Hurford] Since The Consumer Protection Act (CPA) came into full effect in April 2011, it's now against the law to use difficult-to-understand language in financial and legal documents.
18 Mar 2013 08:25
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: According to TopTV, most South Africans would welcome porn on the service, reports City Press, while Channel24 says the hearings have attracted the greatest interest ever. Meanwhile, the end of Google Reader has created an uproar, reports The New York Times Bits.
15 Mar 2013 11:46
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: TopTV will be trying again today to get the go-ahead to flight porn, reports ITWeb, and David Bullard, writing in Politicsweb, reckons it's about time the ANC stopped using the SABC as a 'parking bay' for unwanted cadres. Finally, CNET reports Google is being begged to save its Reader service.
14 Mar 2013 07:33
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Inkatha Freedom Party MP, Liezl van der Merwe, has warned that if the SABC does not clean up its act, it could well face a revolt from licence-payers, reports news24, which also reports on a stream of tributes following the death of well-known journalist Mandy Rossouw. And the mystery around
that website deepens, reports M&G.
13 Mar 2013 09:09
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: The DA wants the Special Investigations Unit to report on its probe into the SABC, reports The Citizen; the ANC's Gwede Mantashe has slammed the on-going board war at the broadcaster, reports IOL, and on the digital front, there is yet more on the migration from analogue to digital and the set-top box issue, reports Mail & Guardian.
11 Mar 2013 07:27
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Gareth Cliff, DJ and Idols judge, has lent his voice to a Disney show and will be the voice of Ducky Mo-Mo in the Disney production Phineas and Ferb, reports Channel24, and Mail & Guardian reports that the Free State claims it didn't pay R140m for a website, but only R40m... Now
that's a relief.
5 Mar 2013 06:55
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