A very pleasing new-look Business Day website

19 Jul 2010

Well, blow me down but Business Day has a new-look website - and very pleasing it is, too! It often seems to me that Business Day and BDFM in general is treated as the poor step-sister in the Avusa family (BDFM is a joint venture, which means it is owned jointly by Avusa and Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times of London).

So while much attention is lavished on Avusa's Times Live, Business Day's website seems to have trundled along in a very low-key fashion for many years.

Quite frankly, I find this very odd as Business Day actually has something unique that users out there might well be prepared to pay for: It is the country's premier business publication and consistently turns out thoughtful analysis and comment on South Africa's business and political worlds by experienced writers such as Tim Cohen, Eusebius McKaiser, Dave Mars and Hilary Joffe.

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Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) is a freelance journalist, media commentator and the publisher of Grubstreet (www.grubstreet.co.za). She worked in the print industry in South Africa for titles such as the Sunday Times and Business Day, and in the UK for Guinness Publishing, before striking out on her own. Email Gill at az.oc.teertsburg@llig and follow her on Twitter at @grubstreetSA.