The Johannesburg high court says the EFF had brought no evidence to back up the allegation
The campaign, which was found to be racially divisive, was aimed at manipulating public opinion using social media
The press council appeal panel ruled that the blog calling for white men to be disenfranchised did not incite violence or hatred based on race.
A fake blog post proposing that white men be stripped of their voting and property rights “might be landing a blow among many other blows”.
The fake identity issue is a red herring. There are very important principles at play – including the selective silencing of views some may not like.
Faustian bargains are the order of the day when producing news.
The negative effects of an obsessive pursuit of wellness reduces food to a form of medication.
Media mogul Arianna Huffington says we need to break away from technology to be successful – and one day we’ll have gadgets to help us do that.
In light of Moneyweb taking Fin24 to court for "plagiarism", are sites like Fin24 parasitic, or is Moneyweb failing to keep up with the times?
Hacker group the Syrian Electronic Army has claimed credit for the Twitter and Huffington Post hacks in a series of Twitter messages.
Newcomers and smaller publications have surpassed big-name media organisations this year as winners of the coveted Pulitzer Prize.
The first woman editor of the <i>New York Times</i> tells why she got the job and how she’ll handle the transition to digital.
Tina Brown’s return to print media with <i>Newsweek</i> surprised many. She explains her plans for the loss-making title.
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, is to join the <i>Huffington Post</i> as the media firm adds big names to its roster following its takeover by AOL.
Arianna Huffington and <i>New York Times</i> editor Bill Keller trade barbs over what makes news work on the web.
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/ 9 February 2011
Arianna Huffington must be smiling from ear to well groomed ear right now. You would be too if you’d just suckered a struggling internet giant.
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/ 7 February 2011
AOL has agreed to purchase the <em>Huffington Post</em> for $315-million, the United States internet company announced on Monday.
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/ 24 September 2010
Leonard Downie, the former executive editor of the <i>Washington Post</i>, has attacked online news aggregators as "parasites living off journalism".
It has gone from upstart to powerhouse and now it wants to branch into news. Is the <i>Huffington Post</i> ready to replace the US newspaper industry.
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/ 15 December 2008
The White House campaign of Barack Obama has ensured that things will never be the same again, according to no less of an authority than Joe Trippi.
The 2008 US presidential elections are playing out in the glow of an internet that has come of age, and the impact was always certain to be profound.