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Noni Sophe believes being multilingual is key for effective media relations. Source: Supplied.

PR & Communications

Noni Sophe | How speaking local languages boosts brand success in Africa

Noni Sophe 25 Aug 2025

Jenny Griesel, Managing Director: Jenny Griesel Communications, examines what the Coldplay CEO scandal tells us about reputation in the digital age

PR & Communications

Coldplayed… From concert to PR crisis

Jenny Griesel 29 Jul 2025

Ciaran R. Maidwell believes that in today’s misinformation era, there’s a growing movement to return to the basics.

World PR Day

#WPRD2025 | Be-cause's Ciaran R. Maidwell: The appeal of legacy media

Ciaran R. Maidwell 25 Jul 2025

What news sources do we actually trust?

Research

What news sources do we actually trust?

Issued by BrandMapp 9 Jun 2025

Social Media

20 years of YouTube: 8 key innovations that have helped the video platform achieve its success

Alex Connock 18 Feb 2025

Marketing

Warc finds two-thirds of marketers remain optimistic about 2025 despite budget constraints

9 Dec 2024

Advertising

Global ad spend to top $1trn in 2024 amid rapid digital growth and regulatory challenges

27 Nov 2024

#OrchidsandOnions: Toyota challenges the bakkie label with Hilux’s enduring legacy

Advertising

#OrchidsandOnions: Toyota challenges the bakkie label with Hilux’s enduring legacy

Brendan Seery 21 Oct 2024

Source: © IMASA A coalition of African editor guilds and media owner organisations has partnered with Code for Africa’s (CfA) media research unit, CivicSignal, to build a database tracking title closures, staff losses and other market impacts

Media

Calling on African media to map the media meltdown

14 Oct 2024

Source: © 123rf South Africa's ad market is expected to see 6.0% this year says Warc

Advertising

Warc: SA's admarket to grow 6%, as global ad investment more than doubles

22 Aug 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Meet the virtual influencers inspiring climate action

Maximilian Gerrath 2 Jul 2024

The Limpopo Mirror is published in Louis Trichardt, a town in the north of South Africa’s Limpopo province. Photo: Anton van Zyl

Media

Google and Facebook are killing local news

Nathan Geffen and Anton van Zyl 8 Mar 2024

Image supplied. Media, business, government, technology, and community leaders from across Africa and internationally have gathered in Cape Town, South Africa for this year’s annual Africa Business Media Innovators (ABMI) forum which ends today

Media

Bloomberg Africa Business Media Innovators Forum 2023 explores media opportunities in Africa

1 Nov 2023

Source: © 123rf The annual Africa Business Media Innovators (ABMI) Forum 2023 will take place from 30 October to 1 November in Cape Town

Media

Bloomberg's Annual Africa Business Media Innovators Forum 2023 set for Cape Town

16 Oct 2023

#OrchidsandOnions: Trevor Noah and KFC unravel the chicken conspiracy

#OrchidsandOnions

#OrchidsandOnions: Trevor Noah and KFC unravel the chicken conspiracy

Brendan Seery 2 May 2023

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi is arrested during a protest in Nairobi in 2014. AFP via Getty Images.

Media

New media voices are telling Kenya's Covid-19 stories - from the ground up

Wambui Wamunyu 18 May 2020

How new media platforms have become powerful across Africa

Media

How new media platforms have become powerful across Africa

George Ogola 13 Dec 2018

Inma report: The emerging value of content

Research

Inma report: The emerging value of content

7 Feb 2018

#BizTrends2018: How to manoeuvre through 2018 and come out the other side

Trends

#BizTrends2018: How to manoeuvre through 2018 and come out the other side

Natasha Fourie 5 Feb 2018

US president, Donald Trump and media mogul, Rupert Murdoch. Image credit: .

Film & Cinematography

Disney-Fox deal puts antitrust enforcers in bind over Trump ally

18 Dec 2017

Sikuvile Awards receive quality entries despite challenges

Media

Sikuvile Awards receive quality entries despite challenges

3 Oct 2017

Overcoming fake news with credible news brands

Media

Overcoming fake news with credible news brands

29 Mar 2017

#BizTrends2017: The rise of bots and artificial intelligence

Trends

#BizTrends2017: The rise of bots and artificial intelligence

Lisa MacLeod 13 Jan 2017

Inara Prusakova © –

Media

#INMAAfrica: Smart phones + social networks = social phones + smart networks?

Leigh Andrews 15 Nov 2016

Lorelyn Medina © –

Media

#INMAAfrica: Digital doesn't trump print... yet.

Leigh Andrews 14 Nov 2016

Media

USD1 Million innovateAFRICA Fund for digital media launched

1 Sep 2016

New social media tools empower citizen journalism

Media

New social media tools empower citizen journalism

19 Jul 2016

SANEF meeting to discuss industry resignations, intimidation

Media

SANEF meeting to discuss industry resignations, intimidation

2 Feb 2016

Registration opens for INMA World Congress in London

Media

Registration opens for INMA World Congress in London

30 Nov 2015

Google aims to get news to smartphones faster

Online Media

Google aims to get news to smartphones faster

8 Oct 2015

Newspapers

Some lessons in newspaper ownership for Survé

Anton Harber 10 Jun 2013

African News Innovation Challenge announces finalists

Media

African News Innovation Challenge announces finalists

11 Sep 2012

WAN-IFRA report looks at developing financially viable media in emerging markets

Media

WAN-IFRA report looks at developing financially viable media in emerging markets

9 Jun 2011

Online Media

Few will pay for news sites

16 Mar 2010

Education

UNESCO, Rhodes University strengthen journalism education in Africa

2 Sep 2009

Research

America's troubled news media

1 Apr 2008