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/ 13 October 2003
So hubby comes home with a new Toyota 4×4 double-cab diesel bakkie, hands you the keys and says, "Here you go, dear. You can use my new weekend toy during the week." How do you handle a sucker-punch like that? Is there life after the Venture bus, asks Mom’s Taxi driver Sharon Gill.
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/ 13 October 2003
The closure of <i>The Daily News</i> does not translate into good sense for the Zimbabwean people, whether measured against a democratic or an economic standard. Any regulatory regime that has had the effect, as this one has, of killing an industry cannot be said to be in the public interest.
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/ 13 October 2003
Its no surprise that the flood of fresh newspaper titles arent pouring in at the top end of the market. Quality journalism doesnt translate easily into profit.
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/ 13 October 2003
David Shapshak, winner of the 2002 Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year award, translates techno talk into digestible English. Kevin Bloom speaks to him about his career.
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/ 13 October 2003
Taxis have got to be the toughest space a media owner could play in. Kevin Bloom speaks to the chiefs at ComutaNet and GMR about their game.
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/ 13 October 2003
Thebe Mabanga is hot shit. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> confirmed as much two years ago, in print. Recently Vodacom caught on and gave him an award worth R300 000 for being the most outstanding young journalist in the country. Kevin Bloom finds out if Mabanga talks like he writes.
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/ 13 October 2003
South Africas media and marketing research may be the envy of the world, but the institutions that control and fund it are being threatened from within. Why are SAARF and MIT under the whip? What improvements are the stakeholders proposing? Kevin Bloom reports.
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/ 13 October 2003
If the media oil the wheels of the free enterprise system, and the US media supplies most of the grease, maybe it’s a redundant question. We’re consumers, right? So put away the Che Guevarra T-shirt and get with the programme. Consolidation, corporate accountability and the rights of the consumer all feature in this month’s editorial comment.
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/ 13 October 2003
In 1967 a near-fatal disease struck The New Yorker then, as now, one of the most successful magazines on the planet. Fortunately for the owners, the virus kind of petered out before The New Yorker keeled over.