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/ 26 January 2005
Professor Tawana Kupe nominates President Mbeki for "communicator of the year" for 2004. It may be a controversial accolade, but the president does know how to outsmart us.
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/ 26 January 2005
Paper can make up to 55% of the cost of producing a magazine. What are the options for the independent printer and publisher, and how does the value chain work? Kuselwa Gongo reports.
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/ 26 January 2005
Compared to the percentages in the UK and other African countries, the local outdoor sector attracts a minor share of the South African adspend pie. Megan Chronis writes that the growth potential lies in innovation, more favourable legislation, and better reporting tools.
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/ 26 January 2005
Everybody thinks that success in the case will make them rich, compensating for their reputation and dignity being in tatters after the publication of a defamatory or injurious story. Suing for defamation however, might end up costing the plaintiff a whole lot more than its worth. Mark Rosin looks at one of the highest awards ever for damages, and it doesn’t come to all that much.
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/ 26 January 2005
For the year ahead expect negligible rate increase, continued dominance by TV and more declines in daily newspapers. Between it all Harry Herber has his money on outdoor. The contractors are more flexible and creative, innovation is matched by good availability, and new impactful, tactical, and less expensive opportunities are presenting themselves continually.
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/ 26 January 2005
The cultural conservatives seem to be winning US media’s "moral wars". They have perfected the art of expressing their displeasure about programming through blast emails and weblogs. Sean Jacobs looks at how the dirty-word police keep films like <i>Saving Private Ryan</i> off the air.
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/ 26 January 2005
South Africa has what some say is a glut of financial media. Opinion is divided as to whether this is beneficial. Is there an over-supply of financial media in South Africa, leading to lower revenues, less money for training, and declining reporting standards? Former <i>Finance Week</i> deputy editor Amanda Vermeulen reports.
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/ 26 January 2005
Why has the number of business broadcasters taken off so rapidly in the first ten years of democracy? Ten years ago, business broadcasting was a pretty dreary affair, confined to the business slot at the end of the news. Graeme Addison suggests that Bizotainment and money madness attract South Africans to the honeypot — even if they have no money to invest.
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/ 26 January 2005
The inaccessibility of learning materials is a problem for primary and secondary schools, where the Department of Education spends more than R1-billion on textbooks and is still left with four students having to share one book. It is also a problem for individuals, who are confronted with expensive curricular shopping lists at university.
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/ 26 January 2005
The implementation of regional electricity distributors (REDs) should not lead to price shocks, but the economies of scale should result in more competitive power prices in the longer term, Western Cape regional general manager of the planned first RED Leon Louw said last Tuesday.