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/ 12 November 2009
There’s a lot more in the government’s new Bill on broadcasting than whether a tax will replace the TV license.
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/ 15 October 2009
At first glance it seemed a rather bizarre story. Namibia’s newspapers last week reported on an ”Open Day” at the Windhoek crematorium.
Government is assembling four puzzle pieces around communications, and you’re invited to help make them fit together.
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/ 17 September 2009
Teverse transparency can kick in for information-poor African countries via information that is held by foreign governments, donors and others.
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/ 3 September 2009
Acting as a sop to a predatory government should never constitute the motive force or raison d’etre of self-regulation.
With digital options increasingly available, why would any journalist attend a conference in person? And especially when budgets are tight?
South Africa’s television landscape is being redesigned right now, but there are significant problems and wasted opportunities.
Take many thousands of people attending the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, give them access to new media tools, and see what happens.
Right now the SABC is hogging bandwidth about priorities for the new Minister of Communications, Siphiwe Nyanda.
It’s one communication that journalists don’t want to get: a retrenchment notice. But that’s happening increasingly across newspapers and magazines.