Dinosaur? Maybe. But there is an artistry to blending research, headlines, words and images, to make a real-world product we can be proud of
The digital media industry is besieged by standards that encourage the dumbing down of its work – consider what’s happening to the Washington Post
Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon
Gwen Lister’s book, ‘Comrade Editor’, weaves together a narrative from the strands of her own life, her journalism, and the wider context of Namibia’s struggle for independence
A study shows that the social messaging platform is both emancipatory and destructive, particularly during election campaigns
With many readers coming to news sites from social media links, they may not pay attention to the subtle clues that mark a story published by the opinion staff
Publications have cut salaries and frozen posts in a bid to survive the disease, but most owners failed to take appropriate steps when problems emerged in the late 1990s
In matric my friends and I got into trouble and were called into the principal’s office to be reprimanded. I do not remember most of what the principal said during the tongue-lashing. But I do remember her saying: “You will not amount to anything in life.” A group of teenagers got into some silly mischief […]
National newspapers are shedding jobs but the situation is even worse for community media, many of which face closure
The Africa Is a Country website offers a rich mix of news, comment and analysis about the continent
Saturday’s brazen raid on Bayede News appears to have been about keeping the newspaper off the streets
The twenty-year-old will take over the helm of the only daily paper in Cambridge, Massachusetts next year
SA’s newsrooms, fraught with unseen booby traps, are often stifling, with dinosaurs at the helm, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
There has been transformation in the fourth estate, particularly in terms of the state of newspapers and radio since apartheid, writes Glenda Daniels.
Newspapers have to creep out of their comfort zones to service an ever-growing platform-agnostic readership.
A Zanu-PF insider and security agent said editor Edmund Kudzayi was viewed as a security threat.
Newspaper posters continue to fascinate collectors, for their social commentary as much as for their wit.
South Africa’s latest media mogul, Iqbal Survé plans to set up newspapers in other vernacular languages.
The pressure has long been on for the company to realise its full potential and satisfy shareholders.
Mr Mogopodi sold newspapers outside Kagiso. Until one day, he disappeared.
Not since the xenophobic attacks of 2008 have South Africa’s underlying and unresolved patterns of violence burst as clearly into the open.
It is a widely held view that newspapers are dying, but a R2.4-billion bid for Independent News & Media South Africa may change investors’ minds.
Outside South Africa, investigative reporters are excelling at probing social issues. Gill Moodie reports.
Newcomers and smaller publications have surpassed big-name media organisations this year as winners of the coveted Pulitzer Prize.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> continues to post growth in an environment of general decline, the latest ABC results show.
Competition regulators are gearing up to investigate allegations of collusion in the newspaper printing industry.
The <em>New Age</em> newspaper finally hit the streets on Monday, with editor Henry Jeffreys saying it was not an ANC mouthpiece.
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/ 1 December 2010
Zimbabwean police have arrested the editor of a newspaper that alleged that "war veterans" were recruited for senior posts ahead of elections in 2011.
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/ 2 November 2010
The <i>Sunday Times</i>, South Africa’s biggest weekend paper, will be introducing a Zulu edition, it was reported on Tuesday.
The long-awaited print launch of the <i>New Age</i> did not take place on Wednesday, coinciding with the resignation of five key staff members.
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/ 20 October 2010
Five senior staff members of the <i>New Age</i> newspaper’s editorial team, including editor-in-chief Vuyo Mvoko, resigned on Tuesday.
A new independent daily in Zimbabwe published its first issue on Friday, in a sign of the government’s easing of harsh media restrictions.