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/ 12 November 2003

Another editor bites the dust

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 defence of rudeness

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

De Beers, al-Qaeda and DVDs

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

Spies Like Us

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

Closing the gate

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.