When it comes to news about internet startups, web trends and innovations, blogs are a better source than traditional media. If you want to know what’s happening on the web, there are... Read more

South Africa may see the licensing of three more commercial radio stations with the proviso that the feasibility study commissioned by the Independent Communications Authority of South Afric... Read more

Within days of the first working group meeting of the “Save our SABC” civil society coalition, an urgent new task presented itself. Members of Parliament tabled a Draft Broadcast... Read more

It is common knowledge that the Afrikaans press, the DR Church and the National Party were bedfellows. Tobie Wiese, who reported on church matters in Die Burger, Beeld, Volksblad and Oosterl... Read more

I cannot wait for the elections next year: The intense and sometimes uncomfortable political pressures will hopefully have subsided by then, or at least a definite direction would have been... Read more

In the last five years the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) has observed a shift in news coverage of children. A number of factors could play a role, such as a growing awareness on the part of... Read more