Newspapers

Desperate days for local papers, radio

Article Lester Kiewit - 16 Aug 2019

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

Article Sean Jacobs - 17 May 2019

The Africa Is a Country website offers a rich mix of news, comment and analysis about the continent

Robbery aimed at ‘killing’ KZN newspaper

Article Paddy Harper - 7 May 2019

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

Article Gemma Ritchie - 26 Nov 2018

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

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 8 Jul 2016

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

Analysis Glenda Daniels - 23 May 2016

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

Analysis Glenda Daniels - 31 Mar 2016

Newspapers have to creep out of their comfort zones to service an ever-growing platform-agnostic readership.

Zimbabwe police on hunt for ‘hostile’ newspaper editors

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 19 Jun 2014

A Zanu-PF insider and security agent said editor Edmund Kudzayi was viewed as a security threat.

Hamburger writes book

Article Sean O Toole - 6 Dec 2013

Newspaper posters continue to fascinate collectors, for their social commentary as much as for their wit.

New media boss either has vision or political motives

Article bogdan TagDiv - 22 Feb 2013

South Africa's latest media mogul, Iqbal Survé plans to set up newspapers in other vernacular languages.

Times Media old guard butchered

Article bogdan TagDiv - 14 Feb 2013

The pressure has long been on for the company to realise its full potential and satisfy shareholders.

Dispatches: With you I know I cannot go wrong

Article Monako Dibetle - 27 Sep 2012

Mr Mogopodi sold newspapers outside Kagiso. Until one day, he disappeared.

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