News Direct and Media OutReach have entered into a reciprocal press release distribution arrangement covering the United States and Asia Pacific region...
Jennilee Peremore-Oliver shares vital strategic interventions that print media companies can adopt to secure its future...
Jennilee Peremore-Oliver 11 Mar 2021
The Amasa Awards has announced the finalists for the 2019 edition of the awards...
On the cusp of exciting and fruitful pan-African networking and trade, the time to make use of an unbiased B2B media showcase for all Africa's dynamic, entrepreneurial business communities is now...
Issued by Bizcommunity.com 24 Oct 2018
The run-up to the 55th Africa Day, celebrated annually on 25 May in parts of Africa and around the world in commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) (now the African Union), is an ideal time to reflect on the opportunities presented by a new collective zeitgeist happening in Africa...
Issued by Bizcommunity.com 21 May 2018
Broadcast television networks are being disrupted by digital predators which are changing the industry to the extent of creating new business models....
Louise Marsland 8 Nov 2017
Call for entries for $1 million innovateAFRICA Fund for digital media, which includes seed funding, technology support and expert mentorship...
Generation Y and Z are much more tech-savvy overall than their predecessors are and have been described as digital natives, yet recent research shows that they read their local newspapers in print, often from cover to cover...
Mexico City is to host the Digital Media LATAM 2015 conference with the world's most prominent digital media executives in Mexico City on 23 and 24 October at the Hilton Reforma Hotel...
A paraphrase of the definition of Ubuntu - we are because you are - goes some way to explain that apart from our pride in being Africa's premier B2B news distribution channel, Bizcommunity is also proud to be home to a great many of the continent's foremost PR, marketing and digital communications professionals...
Issued by Bizcommunity.com 21 May 2015
Hidden in the Times Media Group's recent financial statements was a decision to withdraw from the South Africa Press Association (Sapa).
Anton Harber 15 Oct 2013
The African Press Organisation, a press release wire in Africa, announced its renewed contract as exclusive supplier for press release wire distribution in Africa with France Telecom-Orange, a global telecommunications operator.
40 pioneering digital journalism projects have been shortlisted as finalists in the inaugural African News Innovation Challenge (ANIC) that Google launched in May this year.
RESTON, US: comScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, has released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that more than 180 million US Internet users watched 36.6 billion online content videos in May. Video ads posted another month of record-breaking gains, surpassing the 10-billion mark for the first time on record.
RESTON, US: comScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 181 million US Internet users watched nearly 37 billion online content videos in April. Video ads saw another record-breaking month with nearly 9.5 billion, representing 1 in 5 videos viewed online in April.
With the assistance of generous sponsors, Google has announced the launch of a new US$1 million African News Innovation Challenge (ANIC) to help African journalism flourish in the digital age.
NEW YORK, US: Organisations offering humanitarian aid to the victims of the devastating famine in Somalia can distribute their messages through PR Newswire at no charge. PR Newswire is waiving fees on the distribution of news releases through a global crisis package for organisations wishing to communicate their efforts of assistance towards relief from the devastating famine in Somalia.
After months of behind-the-scenes activity, we're thrilled to unveil a revamped, Bizcommunity 2011, featuring a host of new features and an expanded set of self-promotional tools. What hasn't changed, however, is our commitment to quality news, carefully edited, curated and aggregated daily by the biz editorial teams from specialist journalists, our communities of industry leaders, other news sources and press releases you submit.
After months of behind-the-scenes activity, we're thrilled to unveil a revamped, Bizcommunity 2011, featuring a host of new features - an expanded set of self-promotional tools - such as personal profiles appearing on the various portal front pages and in the newsletters and the ability to find, follow, subscribe and share with your favourite industry personalities and opinion leaders.
After months of behind-the-scenes activity, we're thrilled to unveil a revamped, Bizcommunity 2011, featuring a host of new features and an expanded set of self-promotional tools. What hasn't changed, however, is our commitment to quality news, carefully edited, curated and aggregated daily by the biz editorial teams from specialist journalists, our communities of industry leaders, other news sources and press releases you submit.
After months of behind-the-scenes activity, we're thrilled to unveil a revamped, Bizcommunity 2011, featuring a host of new features and an expanded set of self-promotional tools. What hasn't changed, however, is our commitment to quality news, carefully edited, curated and aggregated daily by the biz editorial teams from specialist journalists, our communities of industry leaders, other news sources and press releases you submit.
Hotel & Restaurant has launched its new-look website incorporating three new portals and offering industry readers increased functionality.
Hotel & Restaurant has launched its new-look website, incorporating three new portals and offering industry readers increased functionality.
CisionPoint PR, workflow software and services will be available in South Africa from early April 2011. Built on a media database of well over a million global media contacts, the software combines feeds from thousands of global news and social media sources and press and broadcast content from partners in over 125 countries into an integrated dashboard.
John Paton, chairman and chief executive officer of impreMedia, a Hispanic news and information company in the US, believes digital news distribution "is the single best thing that has happened to our business in the last quarter century."
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: The African Press Organisation (APO), an African-related news online community which owns a media database of 25 000 contacts, announced a strategic partnership with news distributor PR Newswire on Monday, 26 October 2009.
The Mail & Guardian Online recently became the first South African news service to launch a news headline application for Facebook, the popular social networking service that has more than a hundred thousand South Africans buzzing. It has since been followed by News24.com and IOL.
The Institute for Public Relations and Communication Management in Southern Africa (PRISA) will be presenting the fourth World Public Relations Festival (4th WPRF) - a first for South Africa - on behalf of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management (GA), at the Arabella Sheraton Grand Hotel in Cape Town, May 13 - 15 2007.
Nearly half of senior executives surveyed recognise that reaching audiences only through traditional mass media is no longer effective. "The Changing Face of Marketing and Communications in Today's Creativity Economy", by Weber Shandwick and KRC Research, reveals that top corporate executives are finally getting the clue - half (49%) realise that using traditional media is no longer enough and 76% of senior executives are experimenting with "alternative" media (read Web PR).
Sally Falkow 13 Dec 2006
ProfNet, the online service that enables reporters to connect with expert sources across thousands of news topics, has added 21 South African colleges and universities to its network and is now prepared to rapidly expand the service throughout the continent, the partnership of PR Newswire and BDFM Publishing has announced.