As part of countering threats against
media freedom, the Press Council of South Africa is reviewing its constitution, the SA Press Code and its complaints procedure. All interested South Africans - both individuals and organisations - are
invited to help the council improve self-regulation of the press in South Africa by sending in suggestions by Friday, 15 October 2010.
Still talking about media freedom, this morning, Monday, 20 September 2010, saw the start of the ANC's
national general meeting (
#NGC) in Durban - not that
media and delegate accreditation went smoothly at all... It
appears that not only are the ANC provincial structures gunning for the proposed media appeals tribunal, but that the ruling party also wants a chapter 9 watchdog to regulate the print industry with a print/media charter, as well as its own radio and TV channels. (By the way, the launch of
The New Age has been
postponed until late October, except for a special Heritage Day edition.)
On a different note, I'd like to congratulate my colleague Shan Radcliffe, the editor of our
Retail portal and newsletter who is currently off on maternity leave, on the birth of her first child: a bouncing baby boy. On behalf of the rest of the team, I wish her much joy and happiness (and not too many sleepless nights)!
A luta continua!
Simone Puterman (
@SimoneBiz)
Managing editor
PS Don't miss out on the
second profile of our
PRs meet the media series.
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