Broadcasters in South Africa will have to find new income streams and other ways of selling audiences to advertisers as viewers migrate to the internet and the new media, writes Howard Thomas.
The British are spending more time online than watching television. Can South Africans ever match this trend, asks Matthew Buckland.
The media environment is swarming with undifferentiated products. So how do you reach the hearts and minds of the likes of Harry Herber? Entrench yourself as a brand and knock your sales staff into shape.
Is it true that black faces on magazine covers hinder sales? Matebello Motloung finds out.
The New York Times recently announced it was dropping its share price pages and encouraging readers to go online. Yet Business Day has increased the number of their data pages significantly. Stuart Graham asks a number of local editors for their views.
s any filmmaking adventure Madonna undertakes guaranteed to end in humiliation and disaster? Or is she likely to make a better job of it than husband Guy Ritchie? Andrew Pulver reports.
”Are my sons under the ashes? Only God knows,” says a veiled Oum Hassan, weeping as she rests in a public garden after fleeing Beirut’s southern suburbs where her home was turned to rubble by Israeli air strikes. Clad in black, the widow sits on a green bench under the tall trees to seek shelter from the blazing summer sun and cries.
Afrikaans newspapers have maintained a stable readership since the end of apartheid in 1994. This despite facing numerous challenges, writes Flip Meyer.
There was nothing ailing about Harold Pinter’s passionate and astonishing Nobel lecture, which mixed moral vigour with forensic detail, reports Michael Billington.
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