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The good news for newspapers throughout South Africa is that the upcoming elections should boost circulations a bit. The bad news... well, there's a quite a bit of that going around. Read more
Sensationalism comes in many forms. The New York Times and the Daily Mail’s use of photographs showing faces and bodies of victims of the Kenya attack was one of them. They failed journalism... Read more
[COMMENT] A quick glance at audited numbers over the past decade shows quite clearly that sales continue to drop alarmingly. Yet blinkered editors and management persist in sticking to the s... Read more
Kevin Ritchie, himself a former editor of The Star, on the late and legendary Harvey Tyson and the role he played in South African journalism. Read more
I believe Harvey Tyson was one of South Africa's truly great editors. He was an excellent manager of people, a wordsmith of note and a public speaker of the highest order. Read more
While journalists and their editors from all over South Africa might be enjoying this, the really sad side of this bun fight is that their readers actually couldn’t care less. Read more
