Brown and Mde selfie: It’s none of my business, says ombud
30 January 2015 - NewsA social media picture of two prominent Independent Media editors wearing ANC attire at a rally in January sparked furious debate within journalism circles. This week ...
Who has cracked the nod? All The Bookmarks finalists
30 January 2015 - NewsThe Interactive Advertising Bureau has announced the finalists for this year’s Bookmarks Awards, the seventh in the history of the digital media awards. The IAB ...
Briefly… News24 grabs Max du Preez as columnist
30 January 2015 - Media MeccaIn what it describes as a "massive coup for the online news portal", News24 has announced that Max du Preez will be writing for their platform ...
Briefly… House and Leisure before and after
30 January 2015 - Media MeccaHouse and Leisure’s first standalone renovations issue, HL Before & After, is on sale now. This collector’s edition focuses on the real life projects of House ...
Free lunch please! But don’t put business on the table
29 January 2015 - Media agencyEarlier in the month I read a Digiday article with delightful schadenfreude. The writer was lamenting that the belief the digital era had been supposed ...
Will online advertising ever recover from shooting itself in the foot?
29 January 2015 - AdvertisingAbout a dozen or so years ago when John Farquhar, Alec Hogg and I launched www.marketingweb.co.za we were called in to the SABC ostensibly for ...
Newsflash: 5FM suspends Phenduka for ‘poor taste’ Van Breda comment
29 January 2015 - News5FM has suspended traffic reporter on the Fresh@5 show, Sol Phenduka, over "insensitive" comments he made on Thursday regarding the murder of the Van Breda ...
The New Age gets over R10-million of government ad spend
29 January 2015 - NewsGovernment spending on newspaper advertising in The New Age accounts for 11.2% of government ad spend across 248 publications, the Democratic Alliance says. The communications ...
All the media moves
29 January 2015 - Media MeccaMedia Moves… TheMediaOnline's weekly round up. Red & Yellow appoints new CEO to drive growth agenda. Apurimac Media appoints Nazareen Jakoet as CEO. In Context announces ...
Insight: My, what big data you have!
28 January 2015 - ResearchIt’s already common parlance, but ask yourself: would you rather deal with guy who has a relatively small data set, but really knows what to ...
Insight: Nothing fishy about a trend-setting marketing plan
28 January 2015 - CommunicationsIn marketing, it is safe to say the fundamentals are likely to always be the same. Product, place, price and promotion will always be determining ...
Africa is now: An African fashion perspective
28 January 2015 - Media MeccaIn the words of famed fashion designer Alexander McQueen, "It’s a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It’s all about the individual ...
Briefly… Entries for the Discovery Health Journalism Awards 2014 are now open
28 January 2015 - Media MeccaDiscovery Health has opened entries for health journalists to enter its annual health journalism awards. Work must have been published or broadcast from between 1 January ...
Briefly… South American cartoonist, mafia investigator shortlisted for 2015 Freedom of Expression Awards
28 January 2015 - Media MeccaA journalist under 24-hour protection because of his reports into the Italian mafia, an Ecuadorian cartoonist facing prosecution for depicting government corruption, and lawyers who ...
Let’s encourage Zuma to bash whites
27 January 2015 - OpinionI am all in faviour of President Jacob Zuma continuing his sniping campaign against whites and blaming everything on apartheid, says Chris Moerdyk. Not that I ...
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Global e-commerce CEOs on trends for 2015
Three leading Nordic e-commerce CEOs give their insights on what they believe will be the major global e-commerce trends in 2015. 'Consumer goes global': Jörgen Bödmar, ...
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Book: The life and times of Flora Shaw, The Journalist
A new book by Jos Scharrer, The Journalist, explores the life and times of Flora Shaw, colonial editor of The Times newspaper in the 1890s. ...
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Insight: The digital native has an analogue heart
Almost every year, we hear, “This is the year of the mobile”. As the number of mobile devices on the planet increases, we all nod ...