Megan Chronis

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.

So it’s not quite a Fleet Street paper, and probably never will be, but that’s not getting in the way of the local freesheet’s success. What is it about the community newspaper sector that lets some publishers rake in the dough every week? Megan Chronis reports.

The world, if the biologists’ projections turn out to be correct, will soon begin to revert to the Bible’s fourth day of creation. There will be grass and "herb-yielding seed" and "the fruit tree yielding fruit". But "the moving creature that hath life", the "fowl that may fly above the Earth", or the "great whales, and every living creature that moveth" may one day be almost unknown to us. George Monbiot reports.

Travel may not be the biggest publishing sector around, but the tourism boom is making it an attractive place to be for many publishers. And as <i>SA Country Life</i>’s editor Margaret Wasserfal comments, the travel publishing business is nonetheless "enough to make a living out of." Megan Chronis reports.

While unapproved signs and restrictive bylaws are giving many an outdoor media owner a mother of a migraine, operators remain confident about the future of the billboard industry. Megan Chronis reports.

If the best things in life are free (or almost), why aren’t customer magazines up near the top? Megan Chronis looks at the main reasons why some of SA’s biggest magazines – the customer titles – remain in the shadow of their consumer cousins.