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Business tycoon Tokyo Sexwale’s Mvelaphanda Group will buy up to 30 percent of Johnnic Communication’s media unit in a R1.4-billion deal, a Sens announcement said on Tuesday.
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has announced the winning bidders of the new commercial satellite and cable subscription broadcasting licences.
Three senior executives from Touchline Media, a subsidiary of Media24, have allegedly resigned over the circulation inflation saga which has resulted in the suspension of several…
While journalism schools each offer something different, they also have one thing in common – their failure to recognise and encourage students who are not interested in covering…
Where do you get the best journalism training in South Africa? Matebello Motloung speaks to editors and other media players to find out which training institutions rank highly in…
The Media magazine last year described the explosion of consumer titles in the print market as a magazine minefield. Spurring the growth has been the country’s recent economic…
SABC economics editor Siki Mgabadeli dreams of a world where business news is accessible to Joe Public and she is determined to make it happen. That is one of the reasons why she…
Editors are increasingly under pressure to be more than just in charge of editorial content but also to be brand ambassadors for their publications. This may be beneficial in…
<i>City Press</i> editor Mathatha Tsedu’s vision of creating a "distinctly African" newspaper is finally paying off. For the first time in four years, it sold more than 200,000…
Several radio stations have given their drive-time shows a shake-up as the national average of time spent listening to radio drops. Matebello Motloung reports.
Every year, the media reports on government and corporate sponsored initiatives such as Take a Girl Child to Work. But don’t we also have a responsibility to look into the…
The Afrikaans media has in the past demonstrated an uncanny ability to adapt to change while managing to retain a loyal following. Matebello Motloung considers some of the…
Nearly 80 percent of the world’s editors and senior newsroom managers view online journalism as a ”welcome addition”, according to the 2006 Newsroom Barometre released at the…
The outdoor industry is expected make more than R1.5-billion in ad revenue from the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup and BEE businessman Sandile Zungu is not planning on taking a back…
South African broadcasting entered a new era in 1992 when the country’s first television talk show, The Felicia Mabuza-Suttle Show, premiered on SABC. However, 15 years later,…
There is a lot that South African media practitioners, and the public in general, can learn from their African counterparts. If only we can get over ourselves, writes Matebello…
Custom magazines outshone the other categories in the first Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figures released for this year. This category showed a massive overall growth of…
Pressure is mounting on Johncom to announce a successor for its ousted chief executive officer Connie Molusi. Industry players believe his deputy, Prakash Desai, is the man for…
Sub-Saharan Africa’s first international business news channel goes on air in June. Matebello Motloung asks what impact CNBC Africa will have on business news broadcasting in…
The glaring success of the vernacular media should be proving sceptics wrong. The Media Diversity and Development Agency is now even considering reviving an old Xhosa-language…
