20 Jan 2009 07:31 - Staff Reporter Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim on Monday agreed to provide the cash-strapped New York Times Company a $250-million loan.
05 Jan 2009 18:11 - Staff Reporter The cash-strapped New York Times on Monday for the first time opened its editorial holy of holies, the front page, to advertising.
15 Dec 2008 18:12 - Staff Reporter The editor of the Cape Times, Tyrone August, has resigned following an apparent dispute with management of the Independent group of newspapers.
17 Nov 2008 13:09 - Andrew Heavens More than 60 Sudanese journalists and newspaper staff were detained on Monday at a rare public protest against media censorship.
02 Nov 2008 06:00 - News articles are failing to keep the world informed --
it's time for the next generation, writes Jeff Jarvis.
07 Oct 2008 07:25 - Jan Raath Zimbabwe's economic catastrophe is plunging the country into an "information dark age", according to media analysts.
10 Sep 2008 16:07 - Michael Liedtke Google is trying to expand the newspaper section of its online library to include billions of articles published during the past 244 years.
05 Sep 2008 11:27 - Staff Reporter State-owned transport group Transnet said on Friday it has lodged a formal complaint with the press ombudsman against the Sunday Times.
02 Sep 2008 13:23 - Staff Reporter Britain's Observer has apologised for a "misleading" article about dramatic images apparently of a "lost" Brazilian tribe.
29 Aug 2008 09:01 - Staff Reporter In a major strike for our independence, M&G Media has bought back the Mail & Guardian Online from MWeb, which has owned a stake since 1995.
20 Aug 2008 06:00 - Mark Pinsky The talk in US newsrooms is all about redundancies. Mark Pinsky tells of how he lost his job.
18 Aug 2008 17:24 - Diadie Ba Attackers ransacked the offices of two independent Senegalese newspapers at the weekend, editors said on Monday.
11 Jul 2008 16:33 - Staff Reporter The African National Congress has rejected media reports that it has plans to establish its own daily newspaper.
08 Jul 2008 00:00 - Lev David Twenty-four-hour news channels are like soap operas, every time you tune in, the characters are in a holding pattern, awaiting something dramatic.
26 Jun 2008 09:05 - Staff Reporter England captain Paul Collingwood risked pitching cricket into one of its most serious crises in years, newspapers said on Thursday.
17 Jun 2008 18:18 - Michael Liedtke Google's chief executive said this week that the internet search leader hopes its recently acquired advertising service will aid newspapers.
08 Jun 2008 15:41 - Deanne Lawrance The Christian Science Monitor celebrates 100 years as a newspaper at its stall on the Cape Town Book Fair.
14 Jun 2008 11:36 - Elvira Van Noort Anton Harber, co-founder of The Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, answers 10 questions as the M&G celebrates 20 years.
06 Jun 2008 13:25 - Staff Reporter A series of anonymous letters from employees and former employees of daily newspaper Beeld to the board of its holding company, Media24, has accused Beeld management of "serious corruption".
07 Jun 2008 14:08 - Staff Reporter Zimbabwe has imposed an import duty on the foreign press following concerns by President Robert Mugabe's government over "hostile foreign newspapers coming into Zimbabwe".