New study on digital magazine and newspaper editions: growth, trends, and best practices CAMBRIDGE MA, US: The Gilbane Group announced the general release of Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Growth, Trends, and Best Practices, a pioneering and comprehensive study of the growing market for digital editions of periodical publications, earlier this week. 9 May 2008 08:38
Bullard speaks candidly on local podcast Sacked Sunday Times columnist and controversial writer David Bullard appears as a special guest on this week's episode of ZA Tech Show - a weekly South African technology podcast. In the show, Bullard speaks candidly about his exit from the Sunday Times and presents his side of the story, while motivating his apology which was recently printed in Business Day. 7 May 2008 09:44
Editors optimistic about multimedia newspapers - survey LONDON: The vast majority of newspaper editors world-wide are optimistic about the future of their newspapers, but they don't think of them as "print-only," having clearly accepted the multimedia revolution, according to a global survey released yesterday, Tuesday, 6 May 2008, that provides an insider's view of newsroom attitudes and strategies. 7 May 2008 09:03
Afrikaans advertising - Are marketers missing the point? - Rapport Afrikaans-speaking South Africans are an affluent proportion of our population. According to AMPS 2007B, of the 4 million Whites in the country, 59% are Afrikaans and 79% of Coloureds have Afrikaans as their first language. Despite these figures, marketers, media planners and buyers tend to neglect this important sector. 6 May 2008 15:28
World press pays tribute to colleagues [Issa Sikiti da Silva] A huge cloud of uncertainty, anxiety and fear hung on Saturday, 3 May 2008, the 18th World Press Freedom Day, as media practitioners and lobby groups across the globe paid a silent tribute to their imprisoned, missing and dead colleagues and decried the critical downturn of press freedom even in countries claiming to be liberally democratic. 5 May 2008 11:09
Worldwide polls supports press freedom, Internet access COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND, US: A new worldwide poll finds widespread support for freedom of the press and strong opposition to government restrictions on Internet access. Although most publics surveyed believe the media in their countries should have more freedom, those polled in Russia and many Muslim countries think their leaders should be able to regulate news coverage they consider politically destabilising. 5 May 2008 09:39
Our newspaper editors are boring [Chris Moerdyk] South Africa's newspaper editors are boring. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they're not good editors; after all, they're having to work under trying conditions, such as increasing political pressure on freedom of the press and having to balance editorial integrity with commercial imperatives. 30 Apr 2008 09:15
SA Clios shortlist announced Once again, South Africa has made the shortlist for the 2008 Clio Awards in the Billboard, Innovative Media, Print, Print: Direct Mail, Radio and Television/Cinema/Digital categories. Awards will be presented at the 2008 Clio Festival, 14 - 17 May 2008, at the Gansevoort South Hotel in South Beach, Miami, Florida. 29 Apr 2008 09:37
IFRA in India DARMSTADT/CHENNAI: IFRA Expo India, the second-largest international exhibition in the world for trends and practices in the newspaper printing and publishing industry, will return in September 2009. The three-day event, to be organised by IFRA India, will be held 15 - 17 September 2009 at the Hitex Exhibition Centre in Hyderabad. 29 Apr 2008 08:30
City Press enlists SABC's Encounters as media partner - City Press City Press's ongoing social responsibility initiative, ‘Your South Africa, Our Home, Our Effort' has partnered with SABC's Encounters, a 13-part series hosted by well-known and respected journalist, Fred Khumalo. 24 Apr 2008 11:41
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Marlise Scheepers, a senior Sondag journalist since the newspaper's launch in April 2007, recently released her debut album, Stokalleen. 7 May 2008 15:45
