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/ 12 November 2003
Vusi Mona, the editor of <i>City Press</i>, has resigned, it was reliably learnt on Wednesday by the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i>. Mona has been at the centre of a media ethics row, accused of having outside business interests and a share in a public relations company doing work for the government.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23471">Resignation of editor confirmed</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23268">Sunday Times editor gets the boot</a>
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/ 12 November 2003
In what may or may not be his last word on the issue, David Bullard says hatred had nothing to do with his pursuit of Darrel Bristow-Bovey. Of course, they’re not best friends either.
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/ 12 November 2003
Despite cries of ‘trial by media’ and the refusal of editors and journalists to reveal their sources in front of presidential commissions, there is no media mogul or media house making our government dance to silly tunes.
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/ 12 November 2003
Not only has the loveLife media campaign failed to deliver on its promise of halving the prevalence of Aids, writes Chris Barron, but it has signed contracts with major media owners that effectively silence criticism.
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/ 12 November 2003
Has coverage of the Ngcuka/Zuma affair verged on the libellous? Greg Hamburger and Toni Erling of RWR explain that the 1998 Bogoshi case gives the media unprecedented leeway on potentially defamatory comment.
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/ 12 November 2003
Recently the editor of Business Report, Alide Dasnois, criticised Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni for his arrogance and rudeness in dealing with journalists’ questions. This incident got Graeme Addison asking journalists their experiences of how senior officials and politicians treat them.
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/ 12 November 2003
If the best things in life are free (or almost), why aren’t customer magazines up near the top? Megan Chronis looks at the main reasons why some of SA’s biggest magazines – the customer titles – remain in the shadow of their consumer cousins.
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/ 12 November 2003
Thinking of buying a diamond for your loved one as a symbol of your eternal love? You’ll want to read what Ian Fraser has to say on the commercialist con game that is the diamond industry first, as well as its links to al-Qaeda and the funding of a range of deadly wars. And DVD fans will be pleased to get one up on local stockists by finding out what Amazon has in store.
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/ 12 November 2003
Does the US media have a Blair for each one of our Bristow-Boveys? Tim Spira looks at the parallels between Ranjeni Munusamy’s story labelling Ngcuka an apartheid spy and syndicated American columnist Robert Novak’s ‘outing’ of a CIA agent.
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/ 12 November 2003
Although there are recent and encouraging signs the online advertising market is improving, publishers are now looking at other revenue streams – one being the highly controversial ‘paid-content’ model. It’s billed as the next big step in the evolution of online publishing and could see dramatic changes to South Africa’s webscape.