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The writing was on the wall for SA newspapers long before Covid-19
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
Educators: Watch your words – they can inspire or deflate
In matric my friends and I got into trouble and were called into the principal’s office...
Desperate days for local papers, radio
National newspapers are shedding jobs but the situation is even worse for community media, many of which face closure
Online site a new model for journalism
The Africa Is a Country website offers a rich mix of news, comment and analysis about the continent
Robbery aimed at ‘killing’ KZN newspaper
Saturday’s brazen raid on Bayede News appears to have been about keeping the newspaper off the streets
Kristine Guillaume becomes Harvard Crimson’s first black woman editor
The twenty-year-old will take over the helm of the only daily paper in Cambridge, Massachusetts next year
Hlaudi Motsoeneng may be the ‘devil’, but we can’t ignore the media’s other serpents
SA's newsrooms, fraught with unseen booby traps, are often stifling, with dinosaurs at the helm, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Media has changed but ownership is in a few hands
There has been transformation in the fourth estate, particularly in terms of the state of newspapers and radio since apartheid, writes Glenda Daniels.
SA newspapers need more than one magic bullet to survive
Newspapers have to creep out of their comfort zones to service an ever-growing platform-agnostic readership.
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The Constitutional Court said it welcomed robust debate but criticised the populist rhetoric in the battle between Busisiwe Mkhwebane and Minister Pravin Gordhan
Gauteng nurses say they did not take an oath to die
With more resources than other provinces, health workers in Gauteng still say they do not have enough protective equipment to ensure safety when working with Covid-19 patients
Covid infections among health workers increasing in Eastern Cape
Health worker infections have risen to 170 at state and private hospitals and two healthcare staff succumb to the disease in a space of seven days
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