With specialist magazines covering everything from needlepoint to darts, David Bullard can’t help but marvel at the dedication of some of the more obscure publishers
Are youth magazines finally coming of age? Tim Spira looks at a fickle and fast-changing market, where the only trend that’s constant is the steady climb in copy sales.
In a groundbreaking move, the SABC now offers a TV news bulletin specifically designed for children. Ida Jooste looks into the production values behind the concept and gets some feedback from the target audience.
Last year’s results out of Johncom and Naspers were excellent, providing the strongest evidence possible that local media has emerged from the doldrums. Kirsty Laschinger compares the performance of these South African giants.
Can alternative media go where mainstream media supposedly can’t? Can it give advertisers real "reach" in the elusive youth market? Kim Novick writes that the smart brands choose a mix of platforms.
In the immediate aftermath of the Asian tsunami, blogs were a major source of news and assistance. The disaster also highlighted a new form of blogging, called vlogging. Matthew Buckland explains.
Last Monday, the Constitutional Court handed down judgement in the case of Ethel Robinson and dealt a blow to the 2,3-million South Africans who described themselves as life partners in the most recent census. Robinson was in a monogamous life partnership for 15 years and sought to claim maintenance from her deceased partner’s estate.
It’s always a tough question to answer: What exactly do you do, the day after a wild party, when you have drunken and unconscious friends lying around your place? Do you leave them alone and let them sleep it off? Or do you take advantage of the fact that they are unconscious, to play with them, decorate them and make them look stupid — and then take pictures to show everyone on the internet?
With new technology on the horizon and the presence of big-name multinationals in the local media research space, can we expect vast changes in the structures and methods of media measurement? Kevin Bloom investigates.
The question was put by a Thai official who wanted to know why none of the networks had put out an alert. They all have full-time meteorological expertise, all have people who know (or should know) that an earthquake of such magnitude out at sea causes a tsunami.