Newspaper circulations have been dwindling for years, but Covid-19 has exacerbated a shocking and sharp decline that I doubt many will recover from...
Marino Sigalas 24 Feb 2021
A recent report by an independent panel on the ethics and credibility of South Africa's news media makes for worrying reading...
Herman Wasserman 24 Feb 2021
Free and sold local papers make up just over 78% of the total 6.1 million newspapers in circulation in the last quarter of 2020. Leaving the remaining weekend, weekly and daily titles to make up 22% of the total newspapers in print...
Spark Media 17 Feb 2021
A lacklustre quarter that was once again dominated by no submissions, no issues and terminations. The Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) Q4, for the period October to December 2020, did not have much to celebrate...
Danette Breitenbach 11 Feb 2021
The Witness celebrates 175 years of continuous news publishing on the 27 February 2021...
Canon Europe launched the results of its latest Insight Report - 'Creating Customer Value' - which reveals the changing demands of the print buyer and the untapped opportunities for print service providers and in-house print rooms...
President Cyril Ramaphosa, African Union (AU) chairperson, has endorsed the Digital Platform for the Safety of Journalists in Africa...
Last year I predicted that "at the dawn of this new decade it is clear that traditional print publishing as we know it will never return to the glory days of record-breaking advertising revenue and circulation."...
Josephine Buys 29 Jan 2021
The report of the commission of inquiry into ethical challenges facing South African journalism has officially been handed over to the South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF)...
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has released a report containing the voices of journalists working across the Global South and Emerging Economies highlighting the challenges faced by the profession during the pandemic...
Covid-19 was a catalyst for change - or closure for publishers - as newsrooms around the globe were forced to accelerate digital transformation. Daily Maverick, however, placed their trust in the newspaper market ...
Freedom to work on what we want, setting our own working hours, flexibility of working from anywhere and being able to take long-lazy lunches. Sounds like the freelance dream, right?
Chileque Bezuidenhout 8 Jan 2021
Francois van Dyk, head of operations at brand intelligence research company Ornico, tells us what he thinks communicators need to keep in mind for the coming year...
Francois van Dyk 6 Jan 2021
Journalist, writer, editor and founder of South African-based digital Indian news service Indian Spice, Naufal Khan died of surgery complications on Sunday, 20 December after a long illness...
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