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Maverick publisher back for another go
15 Sep 2009
When we meet for coffee at Hyde Park, north of Johannesburg, former Maverick editor and publisher Branko Brkic can't wait to open up his IBM ThinkPad to give me a demo of his new website, the Daily Maverick.
In some respects, Brkic, a long-time print publisher who came to South Africa from Yugoslavia in 1991, wants to recreate Maverick, the now-defunct monthly business magazine, on the web. But his plans go further: he's on a mission to shake up the way people think about online media in SA.
He's clearly excited about the Daily Maverick, which he hopes to launch within the next five to six weeks — a test site will go live in about a week. Influenced by the Daily Beast and the Huffington Post, two popular American news websites, Brkic wants the Daily Maverick to be people's one-stop online read. And he wants them to love reading it.
Continuing reading the full article With less hubris, a maverick publisher is back for another go on TechCentral.co.za.
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