The renowned journalist and writer has held senior editorial positions in both print and broadcast media
For all the fuss around the Press Council of South Africa in the recent past, its rulings attract regrettably little attention.
The department of communications has failed in its bid to get the Press Council of South Africa to investigate Sunday Times editor Phylicia Oppelt.
A wonderful opportunity in the form of a spanking new press code has presented itself to the media.
Media representatives debating a Press Freedom Commission’s report say changes to the way the media is regulated will have little practical effect.
<b>Franz Krüger</b> looks at some of the key elements of the Press Council of South Africa’s review that was released on August 18.
The Press Council is to undertake a review of its constitution in the wake of criticism which have emerged in debate over the planned media tribunal.
Chairperson of the Press Council of SA, Raymond Louw, on Monday took issue with a call by the ANC and SACP for a statutory media appeals tribunal.
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/ 3 February 2008
South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande has accused City Press newspaper of adopting an ”extremely hostile attitude” towards African National Congress president Jacob Zuma. Nzimande tears into the paper in an open letter published on Sunday for ”deliberately” writing about the party in a ”provocatively factionalist, divisive and highly subjective manner”.
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/ 19 September 2007
"Let’s stop meaningless journalism." That was the cry from new South African press ombudsman Joe Nong Thloloe at a forum, themed Leading Conversations, held on Tuesday. Thloloe, a former South African Broadcasting Corporation and e.tv news editor-in-chief, was appointed to the position at the launch of the new Press Council of South Africa on Friday August 3.