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/ 21 October 2003
A major output of the modern corporation is the organisational chart, or organogram. As a general rule, the bigger the corporation the more adept it is at manufacturing organograms: stroll through the premises of any company with sufficient heft and you’ll not fail to notice the truth of this axiom.
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/ 21 October 2003
It’s no big secret that CNN’s coverage of Africa is dismal. During a recent internship at the Atlanta head offices, SABC reporter Paula Slier took some of the global news giant’s top executives to task.
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/ 21 October 2003
Gender equality in the media is not simply about hiring more women, argues Jyoti Mistry. It is about challenging the patriarchal mindset that drives skewed representation in the media products themselves.
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/ 21 October 2003
Once, when a female editor of a women’s magazine told him that a submitted piece wasn’t funny, David Bullard suffered the torment of a potency scare.
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/ 21 October 2003
Eleventh-hour hearings on South Africa’s Postal Services Amendment Bill — which has raised concerns among courier service providers — have been interrupted when a parliamentary committee meeting was declared irregular by African National Congress chief whip in the National Council of Provinces.
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/ 21 October 2003
African language radio stations ain’t what they used to be –- they’ve emerged from decades of apartheid suppression as viable mouthpieces of the new democracy. But now the station managements need to project a vision of their ability to garner revenue, and marketers need to recognise the value in the public broadcast audience.
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/ 21 October 2003
The big numbers coming out of Cape Town were all in the Naspers results. Donald Paul explains the significance, and in the next snippet comments on the futility of a ‘mixed identity’ excuse.
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/ 21 October 2003
According to Joanne Scholtz, online media director at FCB Headspace, advertising spend on the web is witnessing significant growth. What are the factors fuelling this fire, and why don’t we see it in the stats?
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/ 21 October 2003
Investors pumped nearly R10-billion into unit trusts over the September quarter, pushing industry assets to R204-billion, equal to 4,4% of the JSE Securities Exchange’s market capitalisation.
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/ 21 October 2003
Many unit trust investors have suffered a bruising attrition of wealth over the past two years, and it may take years to get back to ground zero. Investors looking for value over the next six to 12 months should not count on any serious weakening in the rand.