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/ 7 December 2005
Having restored the grande dame of English women’s glossies to its former status, next month Ann Donald bows out of <i>Fairlady</i> after four years at the helm. It could be the quietest departure of an editor in the magazine’s history, writes Sue Grant-Marshall.
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/ 7 December 2005
Here’s a prediction. Expect online advertising to increasingly resemble television commercials. Soon there won’t be too much difference between an advert you see on your box and an advert you see on a website you happen to be visiting. They may even be one and the same thing.
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/ 7 December 2005
There is no journalistic privilege in South African law, and as such journalists are liable to jail terms for refusing to disclose confidential sources. Greg Hamburger outlines the legal framework.
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/ 7 December 2005
Although the TV broadcasters are cagey on how much they spend on local content, the government’s quotas are not something they’re complaining about. Kirsty Laschinger reports on the positive outlook.
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/ 7 December 2005
Was Hurricane Katrina a "perfect storm" for the US mainstream media or signs of a sea change in the country’s journalism? Sean Jacobs considers the coverage.
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/ 7 December 2005
Think of it as the Sinatra test. On Sunday, assorted liberal, democratic and opposition groups will take on the might of Vladimir Putin in elections for the Moscow city parliament. This should be fertile terrain: the capital city is packed with well-educated, enlightened folk and was once seen as the citadel of Russia’s pro-democracy movement.
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/ 7 December 2005
If you think you can upgrade your current middle-of-the range car for a sleek, eye-catching, wow-factor exotic one — think again. An advertisement by financing company FutureFin, which promises people earning R40 000 a month the chance to drive the car of their dreams for only R2 900 per R1-million, is a bit misleading, to say the least.
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/ 7 December 2005
Nushu, the secret women’s script of the Yao minority in China, was widely declared extinct last year, when its most famous user, Yang Huangyi died aged 92. But obituaries for the world’s only gender-specific language appear to have been premature.
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/ 7 December 2005
On the banks of Siletz Bay in Lincoln City, Oregon, officials dedicated a memorial last week to one of America’s worst calamities: a huge earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands of Native Americans 300 years ago. But the memorial’s main job is not to commemorate the disaster, which has only just come to light, but to warn local people that similar devastation could strike at any time.
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/ 7 December 2005
It’s often been said that you can measure the success of an industry by the strength of its trade publications. Kim Novick speaks to some of South Africa’s top business-to-business publishers about the truth of that statement.