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Dumisani Moyo, marketing director at SAP, envisions innovation in Africa
Karabo Ledwaba
Kenyan illustrator, Joy Richu shines spotlight on African creativity
Karabo Ledwaba

#AfricaMonth

Dumisani Moyo, marketing director at SAP, envisions innovation in Africa
Karabo Ledwaba
Kenyan illustrator, Joy Richu shines spotlight on African creativity
Karabo Ledwaba

#AfricaMonth

Dumisani Moyo, marketing director at SAP, envisions innovation in Africa
Karabo Ledwaba
Kenyan illustrator, Joy Richu shines spotlight on African creativity
Karabo Ledwaba

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Subscriber downturn leads to questions on MultiChoice's sustained success

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TrustList: Real time warning against programmatic advertising placement on 'red-listed' online media

27 Nov 2023

Caché McClay has filled the coveted position. Source: USA Today.

Caché McClay is the official Beyoncé reporter for Gannet

By Karabo Ledwaba 16 Nov 2023

Empowering news organisations through technological innovation

Empowering news organisations through technological innovation

Louise Marsland 28 Aug 2019

A newspaper stand is seen in Mwanza, Tanzania, on September 19, 2015. Tanzania is currently considering legal amendments that could negatively affect press freedom. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Daniel Hayduk.

Onslaught against press freedoms in Tanzania

26 Aug 2019

Sphelele Mjadu, Unilever Personal Care Senior Public Relations Manager for Africa and Anne Githuku-Shongwe, representative of UN Women South Africa’s Multi-Country Office, in the UN Women-Dove masterclass panel at the Loeries. Image via Al Nicoll © via Gallo Images.

#Loeries2019: Our responsibility of better representation in advertising, media

Leigh Andrews 23 Aug 2019

Mandi Fine, CEO of F/NE Group Global.

#WomensMonth: Generic business lessons for the 21st Century from healthcare advertising

Leigh Andrews 20 Aug 2019

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'Troubling' erosion of press freedom in certain SADC states

19 Aug 2019

Asha Ranchhod Patel, head of marketing at Google South Africa.

#Loeries2019: Tackling unconscious bias, raising jurors' cultural awareness

Leigh Andrews 16 Aug 2019

Image credit: Simon Steinberger from Pixabay.

Facebook can now fact-check news in African languages

Shereesa Moodley 16 Aug 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

African Digital Media Awards 2019 finalists

13 Aug 2019

Yash Deb, managing director and chief creative officer at Isobar, Kenya and this year's Loeries integrated campaign, film & radio, and radio craft juror.

#Loeries2019: "Strength of a creative campaign lies in how rapidly others can build on it" - Yash Deb

Leigh Andrews 26 Jul 2019

3 steps towards 'glass boxing' your company with a Biz Press Office

3 steps towards 'glass boxing' your company with a Biz Press Office

Bizcommunity.com 23 Jul 2019

#FB@15: Inside Facebook's 4 Cs for innovation

#FB@15: Inside Facebook's 4 Cs for innovation

Elouise Kelly 23 Jul 2019

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Wan-Ifra explores how news media is adapting business models to promote press freedom

22 Jul 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Two days left to enter African Digital Media Awards 2019

10 Jul 2019

Tiso Blackstar Group sells media, broadcast and content businesses

Tiso Blackstar Group sells media, broadcast and content businesses

28 Jun 2019

RTE Broadcaster of the Year, Tom McGuire, head of RTÉ Radio. Image supplied.

2019 NYF Radio Awards: Winners announced!

25 Jun 2019

#AfricaMonth: Pan-African web series gives Maybelline New York an African flair

#AfricaMonth: Pan-African web series gives Maybelline New York an African flair

Maroefah Smith 30 May 2019

Cobus Heyl is Burn Media Group’s new chief products officer.

Cobus Heyl announced as director, chief product officer of Burn Media

13 May 2019

Nigerian publishers gear up for digital transformation

Nigerian publishers gear up for digital transformation

365 Digital 13 May 2019

Screen grab from ADC 98th Annual Awards' Black Cube for Best of Show winner, “The Truth Is Worth It,” on behalf of The New York Times, awarded to Final Cut New York and Furlined Santa Monica with Droga5 New York.

#OneShow2019: All the ADC 2019 winners!

7 May 2019

How South Africa ranks in the press freedom stakes

How South Africa ranks in the press freedom stakes

Glenda Daniels 3 May 2019

Image via : A woman is reflected next to a poster outside a community hall hosting a night vigil for kidnapped photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed, on January 18, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Community members, friends, family and colleagues of photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed held a night vigil at the Lenasia South Civic Centre. Mohamed was abducted in Syria on 10 January while working with the aid mission Gift of the Givers. (Photo by Gallo Images / Dino Lloyd)

South African journalist Shiraaz Mohamed, kidnapped in January 2017, is shown alive in new video

Jonah Dylan 2 May 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Reporting on China in Africa is too binary

Yu-Shan Wu 30 Apr 2019

Xolisa Dyeshana, chief creative officer at Joe Public United.

How Joe Public taps into the zeitgeist of AI in advertising for Africa

Leigh Andrews 25 Apr 2019

Bizcommunity sends a clear message that Africa is open for business

Bizcommunity sends a clear message that Africa is open for business

dotAfrica 9 Apr 2019

Bizcommunity launches BIZ | Daily top story headlines

Bizcommunity launches BIZ | Daily top story headlines

Bizcommunity.com 8 Apr 2019

Africa rising as Bizcommunity launches .Africa domain

Africa rising as Bizcommunity launches .Africa domain

Bizcommunity.com 2 Apr 2019

Why science matters so much in the era of fake news and fallacies

Why science matters so much in the era of fake news and fallacies

Tawana Kupe 25 Mar 2019

#HumanRightsDay: The human cost of journalism globally

#HumanRightsDay: The human cost of journalism globally

19 Mar 2019

Nigerian elections. Credit: CPJ Africa.

Journalists in Nigeria detained, harassed, and assaulted

14 Mar 2019

African City Guide launches connecting business travellers to Africa

African City Guide launches connecting business travellers to Africa

12 Mar 2019

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Empowering news organisations through technological innovation

Empowering news organisations through technological innovation

Louise Marsland 28 Aug 2019

A newspaper stand is seen in Mwanza, Tanzania, on September 19, 2015. Tanzania is currently considering legal amendments that could negatively affect press freedom. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Daniel Hayduk.

Onslaught against press freedoms in Tanzania

26 Aug 2019

Sphelele Mjadu, Unilever Personal Care Senior Public Relations Manager for Africa and Anne Githuku-Shongwe, representative of UN Women South Africa’s Multi-Country Office, in the UN Women-Dove masterclass panel at the Loeries. Image via Al Nicoll © via Gallo Images.

#Loeries2019: Our responsibility of better representation in advertising, media

Leigh Andrews 23 Aug 2019

Mandi Fine, CEO of F/NE Group Global.

#WomensMonth: Generic business lessons for the 21st Century from healthcare advertising

Leigh Andrews 20 Aug 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

'Troubling' erosion of press freedom in certain SADC states

19 Aug 2019

Asha Ranchhod Patel, head of marketing at Google South Africa.

#Loeries2019: Tackling unconscious bias, raising jurors' cultural awareness

Leigh Andrews 16 Aug 2019

Image credit: Simon Steinberger from Pixabay.

Facebook can now fact-check news in African languages

Shereesa Moodley 16 Aug 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

African Digital Media Awards 2019 finalists

13 Aug 2019

Yash Deb, managing director and chief creative officer at Isobar, Kenya and this year's Loeries integrated campaign, film & radio, and radio craft juror.

#Loeries2019: "Strength of a creative campaign lies in how rapidly others can build on it" - Yash Deb

Leigh Andrews 26 Jul 2019

3 steps towards 'glass boxing' your company with a Biz Press Office

3 steps towards 'glass boxing' your company with a Biz Press Office

Bizcommunity.com 23 Jul 2019

#FB@15: Inside Facebook's 4 Cs for innovation

#FB@15: Inside Facebook's 4 Cs for innovation

Elouise Kelly 23 Jul 2019

Image credit: Juliana Malta on Unsplash

Wan-Ifra explores how news media is adapting business models to promote press freedom

22 Jul 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Two days left to enter African Digital Media Awards 2019

10 Jul 2019

Tiso Blackstar Group sells media, broadcast and content businesses

Tiso Blackstar Group sells media, broadcast and content businesses

28 Jun 2019

RTE Broadcaster of the Year, Tom McGuire, head of RTÉ Radio. Image supplied.

2019 NYF Radio Awards: Winners announced!

25 Jun 2019

#AfricaMonth: Pan-African web series gives Maybelline New York an African flair

#AfricaMonth: Pan-African web series gives Maybelline New York an African flair

Maroefah Smith 30 May 2019

Cobus Heyl is Burn Media Group’s new chief products officer.

Cobus Heyl announced as director, chief product officer of Burn Media

13 May 2019

Nigerian publishers gear up for digital transformation

Nigerian publishers gear up for digital transformation

365 Digital 13 May 2019

Screen grab from ADC 98th Annual Awards' Black Cube for Best of Show winner, “The Truth Is Worth It,” on behalf of The New York Times, awarded to Final Cut New York and Furlined Santa Monica with Droga5 New York.

#OneShow2019: All the ADC 2019 winners!

7 May 2019

How South Africa ranks in the press freedom stakes

How South Africa ranks in the press freedom stakes

Glenda Daniels 3 May 2019

Image via : A woman is reflected next to a poster outside a community hall hosting a night vigil for kidnapped photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed, on January 18, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Community members, friends, family and colleagues of photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed held a night vigil at the Lenasia South Civic Centre. Mohamed was abducted in Syria on 10 January while working with the aid mission Gift of the Givers. (Photo by Gallo Images / Dino Lloyd)

South African journalist Shiraaz Mohamed, kidnapped in January 2017, is shown alive in new video

Jonah Dylan 2 May 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Reporting on China in Africa is too binary

Yu-Shan Wu 30 Apr 2019

Xolisa Dyeshana, chief creative officer at Joe Public United.

How Joe Public taps into the zeitgeist of AI in advertising for Africa

Leigh Andrews 25 Apr 2019

Bizcommunity sends a clear message that Africa is open for business

Bizcommunity sends a clear message that Africa is open for business

dotAfrica 9 Apr 2019

Bizcommunity launches BIZ | Daily top story headlines

Bizcommunity launches BIZ | Daily top story headlines

Bizcommunity.com 8 Apr 2019

Africa rising as Bizcommunity launches .Africa domain

Africa rising as Bizcommunity launches .Africa domain

Bizcommunity.com 2 Apr 2019

Why science matters so much in the era of fake news and fallacies

Why science matters so much in the era of fake news and fallacies

Tawana Kupe 25 Mar 2019

#HumanRightsDay: The human cost of journalism globally

#HumanRightsDay: The human cost of journalism globally

19 Mar 2019

Nigerian elections. Credit: CPJ Africa.

Journalists in Nigeria detained, harassed, and assaulted

14 Mar 2019

African City Guide launches connecting business travellers to Africa

African City Guide launches connecting business travellers to Africa

12 Mar 2019

TheConversation.com

How metrics are changing editorial decisions in African newsrooms

Dr Admire Mare and Dumisani Moyo 20 Feb 2019

Microsoft CMO on the transformation of digital marketing

Microsoft CMO on the transformation of digital marketing

Jessica Tennant 5 Feb 2019

Driving value in Africa's e-commerce landscape

Driving value in Africa's e-commerce landscape

Mike Higley 31 Jan 2019

AMA competition for media trip to Africa CEO Forum

AMA competition for media trip to Africa CEO Forum

29 Jan 2019

Tribal Tourist launches new website connecting adventure travellers to Africa

Tribal Tourist launches new website connecting adventure travellers to Africa

25 Jan 2019

New digital publishing platform for Pulse

New digital publishing platform for Pulse

2 Jan 2019

African ebooks, music, go global

African ebooks, music, go global

18 Dec 2018

Hundreds of jailed journalists the new norm, CPJ census finds

Hundreds of jailed journalists the new norm, CPJ census finds

13 Dec 2018

Image via Ndalo Media on .

Ndalo Media no more, come 2019

13 Dec 2018

87% of journalists in the Middle East, Africa and Asia view the industry negatively

87% of journalists in the Middle East, Africa and Asia view the industry negatively

12 Dec 2018

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