Mixed reactions over controversial Sunday Times report

[Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia] The controversial Sunday Times Review Panel's full report - withheld and hidden from the public view for a long time but brought to light by freelance journalist Michelle Solomon and finally published this week by Business Day - has been met with mixed reactions from media analysts and politicians. 17 Jun 2011 11:55

Controversial Sunday Times report now public

NEWSWATCH: That report, the 2008 one reviewing the Sunday Times editorial processes that freelance journalist Michelle Solomon has been trying to get her hands on since earlier this year and whose PAIA application was turned down, is now public - published online in an "exclusive" by Business Day on Wednesday afternoon, 15 June 2011. Twitter has been aflame at the lack of credit due Solomon. [updated] 15 Jun 2011 16:16

Sunday Times and me, Part II: The Empire strikes back, sort of

[Michelle Solomon] More than a month ago, I submitted my first Promotion of Access to Information (PAI) Act application to make public the 2008 Sunday Times report by the Harber commission. On 3 May 2011, World Press Freedom Day, Avusa informed me my application had been denied. While I was not surprised, I remain puzzled. 13 May 2011 12:30

Avusa refuses Michelle Solomon's PAIA application

Michelle Solomon, a freelance researcher and journalist who is doing her masters in journalism and media studies at Rhodes University, has reported via Twitter that her Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) application, regarding a Sunday Times 2008 report, was turned down was not granted by Avusa yesterday, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 - World Press Freedom Day. 4 May 2011 10:41

Why buy Avusa? Because it can be so silly?

[Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] Why will Avusa insist on doing such silly things? Why not just give the enterprising young Michelle Solomon the 2008 report on the Sunday Times she sought? She wouldn't have been able to do much with it as it is almost three years old and doesn't reflect on today's Sunday Times, under new editor Ray Hartley. 13 Apr 2011 11:10

Sunday Times and me

[Michelle Solomon] As a young journalist, I am still struggling to understand why there is such a gap between what we, the media, preach and what we actually do and why it is considered so natural. Over the last few weeks, I embarked on a journey of discovery of what exactly happened to the Sunday Times 2008 report by Anton Harber and Co. This is my travelogue of the journey so far, a slightly Kafkaesque experience. 8 Apr 2011 13:39