The writing is on the wall

Media companies make headlines with their poor scores in BEE ownership, writes Reg Rumney

Push for access to information

Activists and others are joining forces at a conference which aims to yield a declaration on access to information.

M&G's Mondi triumph: Journalism is a team sport

Awards littered the Mail & Guardian offices in Rosebank, Johannesburg after a good haul at the annual Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards.

Digital delight doesn't come cheaply

Digital television will add to the thrills of the World Cup in South Africa, but will poor households be able to afford the R700 required to switch?

Advertising is not a weapon

A Grahamstown court will soon decide if a body of government may withdraw advertising from a newspaper simply because the authorities do not like it.

Selebi saga bags M&G top newspaper award

The saga of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi has won the Mail & Guardian's investigations team the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Award for story of the year, it was announced on Wednesday evening at the seventh annual awards ceremony held at the Wanderers club in Johannesburg.

Regulating press freedom: a bad idea

Almost unnoticed amid the sound and fury of the leadership fight at the ANC's Polokwane conference, the party ­fleshed out its proposal for a media tribunal to keep journalists in check. A policy conference last June first raised the idea in a brief reference calling for an investigation into media self-regulation and the desirability of establishing a tribunal.

Editor takes flak at media conference

Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya was accused of lying about his "imminent arrest" by South African Broadcasting Corporation group chief executive Dali Mpofu and writer Ronald Suresh Roberts at a conference in Sandton on Friday.

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