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/ 13 October 2003
The media strategist faces a shifting environment. In 2002 almost everything promotes, advertises, markets cell phones, motor vehicles, pizza boxes, rubbish bins, parking lot booms. Some advice for the media suppliers.
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/ 13 October 2003
There’s not going to be a Big Brother 3 this year. As it turns out, the experience of interactive navel-gazing wasn’t so much fun the second time round. Instead of giving the kids of local subscribers yet another SMS-based national bulletin board, Multichoice is going after untainted subscribers up north.
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/ 13 October 2003
In 1967 a near-fatal disease struck The New Yorker then, as now, one of the most successful magazines on the planet. Fortunately for the owners, the virus kind of petered out before The New Yorker keeled over.
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/ 13 October 2003
Keynote speaker Thabo Mbeki turned the tables on the issues at an indaba of 100 editors from across the African continent. Tawana Kupe was there.
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/ 13 October 2003
As promised last month, Im back with the African agenda at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). And as I noted there, African media still has not caught on to the fact that the summit is nine months away. Its a pity.
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/ 13 October 2003
Tawana Kupe of Wits University discusses the groundbreaking benefits of the Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa.
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/ 13 October 2003
Sunday newspaper sales are booming. Does this mean more of us are doing that leisurely Sunday thing of papers, coffee and croissants? Or is there a new breed of journalists out there, capturing a wanton new market? Donald Paul reports.
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/ 13 October 2003
Sports sponsorship is not just big business it may be THE business of media today. Graeme Addison looks at sports TV and reports on the growing, and worrying, trend to lock up spectator value and keep out the competition.