[Noëleen Bruton] It's been exciting watching the phenomenal growth of digital media both locally and globally in the past say two decades. This, of course, has given marketers a whole new category of media in which to spend our advertising budgets.
13 May 2013 11:27
[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
[Ingrid Louw] The latest figures from the South African Audience Research Foundation (SAARF) show that daily and weekly newspapers account for 49% of local media consumption, making them still the most preferred source of news and information in the country.
29 Apr 2013 10:14
[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 
[Anton Harber] The New Age has finally released some sales figures, though they are of dubious credibility.
22 Apr 2013 07:57
[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[Anton Harber] Who would have thought the Mail & Guardian would be the most stable player in the South African newspaper market?
18 Apr 2013 14:17 
[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
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: It has come to light that police confiscated the cellphones of 45 officials for images taken after Oscar Pistorius' arrest, reports The Citizen.
16 Apr 2013 10:24[Anton Harber] Dr Iqbal Survé, leader of the consortium buying the Independent newspapers group in South Africa, has gone notably quiet.
16 Apr 2013 07:39 
[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
[Colin Ramparsadh] I had already written this column prior to seeing the Sunday Times this morning but decided to change it as I felt compelled to disagree with it. (video)
15 Apr 2013 08:54
[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: Iqbal Survé's Sekunjalo consortium has bought Ireland's Independent News and Media South African interests for R2bn, and reckons it's 'a gift' for Madiba, reports IOL; meanwhile MTN as been accused of stealing an entrepreneur's intellectual property, reports BD Live.
8 Apr 2013 06:45
[Chris Moerdyk] Atul Gupta, the MD of Sahara Holdings and executive chairman of TNA Holdings, owners of the New Age newspaper, has issued summons through the North Gauteng High Court against the editor of the Sunday Times and the newspaper's management, demanding defamation damages to the tune of half a billion rands.
4 Apr 2013 05:33[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 
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: It appears that the Free State government's control over news and information in that province is growing, reports Mail & Guardian, while BD Live reports that the Department of Communications is aiming for 100% broadband coverage by 2020.
27 Mar 2013 07:28
[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
[Terry Levin] Stuck away at the far end of Africa, Design Indaba provides some much-needed perspective on our craft. Nothing replenishes a jaded inspiration better than an annual shot of pure cultural energy from New York's design elite.
4 Mar 2013 08:37[Chris Moerdyk] Round about this time 51 years ago, a 19-year-old youngster joined the Pretoria News as a wide-eyed cub reporter. His salary was R72 a month and the company deducted R1.25 for his pension fund contribution and 45c for the "tea club."
25 Feb 2013 10:50 
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Mail & Guardian reports that Moeletsi Mbeki is demanding R20m from the newspaper and also that Iqbal Survé, South Africa's latest media mogul and the new owner of Independent News & Media South Africa (INM), is either a man with a vision... or political motives. Meanwhile, David Bullard, writing in Politicsweb, reckons Oscar Pistorius is living the Twitter nightmare.
25 Feb 2013 07:08[Harry Herber] Here I am going to highlight some certainties for the media industry in 2013 - and I am ready to bet my house on them.
19 Feb 2013 06:08 
[Veli Dlamini] This article is an extension of my previous article titled
"Giving your brand the "cool factor" in 2013 (part I)". This time around I will be touching on the strategies that brands can use to engage with the youth market on social media and importantly to be relevant in the youth culture and pushing the point that
social media marketing is a means to an end; it's not the end itself.
15 Feb 2013 10:16[Chris Moerdyk] In the cutthroat world of newspaper and magazine publishing, it has been fairly predictable that pretty much all the competitors of The New Age have been vociferous about parastatals and other advertiser supporting the paper when it doesn't have Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) certification.
12 Feb 2013 10:18 
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Nazeem Howa, CEO of The New Age, claims that a report in yesterday's City Press on the subject of advertising in The New Age is "misleading".
11 Feb 2013 07:33
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