Newspapers, paywalls and the fallacy of numbers
About a month ago Business Day's Peter Bruce announced that at long last the newspaper would put up a paywall ...
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The business of financial journalism
Forget the demise of so-called R200-million legislated subsidy, or the obligatory financial advertising in the print media that has been touted ...
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End of the line for multi-million JSE ‘subsidy’
It has been a “R200-million legislated subsidy to the financial press”, according to business media expert Reg Rumney, and now ...
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JSE advertising: Cutting off our noses?
Wadim Schreiner bemoans the fact that listed companies no longer have to advertise their financial results, as it impacts on ...
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Great journalists are born, not taught
That the state of journalism in South Africa is at an all-time low is incontestable. Most media owners and editors, ...
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What is the real cost of complacency?
On 5 November a group of senior media executives from around South Africa holed up in a conclave with BDFM ...
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