This year will certainly prove to be one of the most fascinating, complex and mind-boggling in the history of the mass media. Donald Trump, for one, is making it fascinating, complex and par... Read more
The Trump administration might just have presented ailing news media with a golden opportunity to make healthy profits again. And it’s so very simple. ‘Fake news’, or what Trump advisor Kell... Read more
OPINION: When politicians reach a state of dire desperation, they inevitably target the media. Which is stupid because history shows political leaders who rail against the media almost alway... Read more
There might just be a high-tech lifeline for struggling newspapers and broadcasters suffering from the inevitable obsolescence of traditional advertising. But, they will have to be careful.... Read more
OPINION: In the last years of the apartheid era, mass media in South Africa boomed. This was partly because the players at that time were comfortably protected by monopolistic chain mail, bu... Read more
OPINION: In spite of all myriad so-called innovations in marketing, such as the use of the word “hacking” these days, mass media can take a leaf out of the current marketing thin... Read more
