Communications | The Media Online

Assessing Sekunjalo’s Mpati Commission spin

Posted By: Ed Herbston: March 20, 2020In: Opinion

Independent Media newspapers have been carrying front page reports claiming the Mpati Commission report would exonerate Iqbal Survé and Dan Matjila. Not so. Read more

COVID-19 highlights the relevance of traditional mass media

Posted By: Chris Moerdykon: March 19, 2020In: Opinion

The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated very clearly the importance and reliability of traditional mass media, while showing up the flaws and dangers of online social platforms. Read more

It’s a fact: Emotional clickbait always wins

Posted By: Chris Bothaon: March 13, 2020In: Opinion

Let’s look at the facts and figures. Let’s crack a book open and do some of our own homework on a topic before being dragged down an emotional rabbit hole. Read more

Are there any lessons from the past for today’s struggling media?

Posted By: Chris Moerdykon: March 05, 2020In: Opinion

I have been thinking about those very depressing ABC figures, released recently, showing most newspapers and magazines going anorexically pear-shaped. Read more

Who do you believe – Nelson Mandela or Ayanda Mdluli?

Posted By: Ed Herbston: February 27, 2020In: Opinion

Without offering the slightest substantiating evidence, Independent Media writer, Ayanda Mdluli, published an article recently accusing Daily Maverick editor, Branko Brkic, of being anti-bla... Read more

Our newspapers are humourless because readers are fibbers

Posted By: Chris Moerdykon: February 20, 2020In: Opinion

It is no good only asking newspaper readers what they want to read, but more importantly, why they don’t read newspapers anymore. Read more