 | SOUTH AFRICA  [Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: The press ombudsman has ordered Drum to apologise to Top Billing's Bonang Matheba for publishing medical records that it said were hers, reports Mail & Guardian.
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 | SOUTH AFRICA [Harry Herber] The one thing that's certain when talking about anything relating to media is that if you have three people involved in the discussion, you'll get three opinions. Not only three opinions, but, indeed, three opinions that can be objectively rationalised and supported with defined case studies that empirically prove each case. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Chris Moerdyk] Under normal circumstances anyone who told me they were going to launch a new magazine would get the full force of my cynicism and a suggestion that it would probably be a lot less risky and more profitable to start up a combi-taxi operation employing only AWB drivers in full uniform and flying the old South African flag from the radio aerial. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Gill Moodie] Media24 is soon to announce the closure of Sports Illustrated, Bizcommunity has reliably learned. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA [Sumien Brink] Here's a challenge to the print industry and its award bodies: if the medium is to grow again, print needs to take a leaf out of digital's book and prove its ROI. And industry awards need to reward this. |
| SOUTH AFRICA [Gill Moodie] What a coup for Gisèle Wertheim Aymés to have snapped up Stuff magazine's licence - and it's also heartening news for independent publishers and media owners. Going with Wertheim Aymés is Stuff editor Toby Shapshak, who has overseen the growth of this little star of a magazine since its launch in SA in 2007. |
| SOUTH AFRICA  [Gill Moodie] News of cost-cutting and title closures in the print industry don't shock anymore. They are just a fact of life.
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| SOUTH AFRICA [Gill Moodie] NewsNow, the weekly magazine launched by Media24 a year ago, is closing - Bizcommunity has reliably learned that the title is shutting up shop and a press release will be sent out later this week regarding this sad event. Biz has also been told that iMaverick's move from daily to weekly has been a good one, with no subs cancellations at all. |
| SOUTH AFRICA  [Gill Moodie] If you're in media today in South Africa, it is well worth getting the autobiography of Jane Raphaely, the trailblazer who made Fairlady a publishing phenomenon by taking it to 216 000 circulation (fortnightly and in 500-page issues nogal!) in the 1980s, and then struck out on her own to bring Cosmopolitan to SA and build the very successful Associated Magazines. Published last week, the book - Jane Raphaely unedited - is fascinating and fun, suffused with her moxie, offering a unique insight into the evolution of magazines and media in this country from the 1960s.
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| SOUTH AFRICA  [Gill Moodie] In the very competitive magazine world, you must take action or die - which is why FHM's successful former editor, Brendan Cooper, has been brought back from management to the editor's seat. Cooper tells Bizcommunity how he's going to put the magazine back on track, how the readership has changed and why the lad-mag era is over.
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 | SOUTH AFRICA  [Herman Manson] High Life, the much applauded inflight magazine of British Airways, is getting a localised edition for BA-operated Comair. The new magazine replaces Horizons - Comair's previous inflight title, published by Media24. The contract was awarded to Omnicom-owned content marketing firm Cedar Communications UK and the first edition appeared 1 April 2012.
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| SOUTH AFRICA  [Gill Moodie] The latest Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figures - for the last quarter of 2011 that were released in Cape Town recently - told a grim story for newspapers but, curiously, the magazines are faring better.
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 | SOUTH AFRICA [Roshila Jarosz] Both Cleo and Top Billing magazines are set to go to print with their last editions, Bizcommunity.com has confirmed. Meanwhile, Media24 will be launching an "international weekly news and fashion magazine". |
| SOUTH AFRICA  [Herman Manson] The recent repositioning of business magazine Finweek has upped the stakes in what many consider a rather stale magazine segment. Not that a lot isn't happening in the business press, or that it isn't already highly competitive - take the recent entry of Forbes Africa into the fray, or how the tablet market has opened up access to publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek to South African consumers.
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 | SOUTH AFRICA [Angelo Coppola] I was paging through a couple of B2B (trade) magazines recently, having decided it was time to empty out our business postbox, and I was hugely disappointed and dismayed... the content remains generally unchanged and even the headlines look and read the same. |
 | SOUTH AFRICA  [Johann M. Smith] "Rolling Stone" - it was the writing on the wall found backstage at Rocking the Daisies. It was a hint, a secret, that the writer wanted musicians to know first, before anyone else. There is no way of saying it better: Rolling Stone magazine is coming to South Africa in November 2011. Johann Smith and Ruth Cooper of Bizcommunity.com's BizLounge speak to Miles Keylock, editor-in-chief of RS SA.
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| SOUTH AFRICA  [Herman Manson] The launch issue of NewsNow/NuusNou has hit the newsstands. The new weekly, published by Media24 Magazines, publishes on Fridays and retails at R20. [video]
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| SOUTH AFRICA  [Herman Manson] John Brown has quickly become a force to be reckoned with in the South African custom marketing field. It launched in 2007 with Pick n Pay as a client, producing its monthly food magazine, Fresh Living, which has since emerged as the bestselling food title in the country. Now, suddenly, it has grabbed Cell C, Edgars Club and Discovery Health in short succession, shaking up the local custom marketing industry.
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| SOUTH AFRICA  [Gill Moodie] There's much afoot in the world of business and financial media with a restructuring of Media24's business division and disentangling of an integrated newsroom, while rival BDFM is going the opposite route and creating an integrated newsroom as a first step towards a paywall site. Recently appointed Finweek acting editor Marc Ashton tells Bizcommunity.com how the magazine is being repositioned to suit a younger market and why reports of retrenchments have been overstated.
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| SOUTH AFRICA  [Herman Manson] Wine magazine, the wine-focused consumer monthly published by RamsayMedia, will be publishing its last edition in September 2011, after nearly 20 years in print. The magazine has only turned an annual profit three times in its existence.
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