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Why newspapers are all the rage

Dinosaur? Maybe. But there is an artistry to blending research, headlines, words and images, to make a real-world product we can be proud of

There is nothing inherently magical about a newspaper. Socially, sure, the beautiful thing about a physical copy is that it can be shared, passed around and collectively leafed through. But that’s not what makes it great.
South Africa’s youngest news consumers are disengaging from traditional journalism.

Editorial: Readers will decide news quality

The digital media industry is besieged by standards that encourage the dumbing down of its work – consider what’s happening to the Washington Post

Women of the struggle: Artist Sue Williamson with works from her series of photo portraits from the ongoing series All Our Mothers.
Photo: Courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery

The long and short of a 50-year artistic career

Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon

‘Comrade Editor’: Gwen Lister pictured in the offices of The Windhoek Advertiser. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwen Lister/Tafelberg)

Hier kom Lister! On the ‘Comrade Editor’s’ lifelong commitment to activism and journalism

Gwen Lister’s book, ‘Comrade Editor’, weaves together a narrative from the strands of her own life, her journalism, and the wider context of Namibia’s struggle for independence

The most effective way to mitigate the negative effect of fake news without neutering WhatsApp’s capacity to strengthen democracy is through digital-literacy campaigns. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images)

Is WhatsApp shaping democracy in Africa?

A study shows that the social messaging platform is both emancipatory and destructive, particularly during election campaigns

News readers often mix up actual news and opinion pieces.

Journalists believe news and opinion are separate, but readers can’t tell the difference

With many readers coming to news sites from social media links, they may not pay attention to the subtle clues that mark a story published by the opinion staff

Shake-up for newspaper groups

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

The teachers
of the Eastern Cape have emerged as unsung heroes, pushing the boundaries to secure an impressive 81.4% pass rate in the 2023 matric results.

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 to be reprimanded. I do not remember most of what the principal said during the…

Tough financial times: Jasmine Johnson-Mazwi (left) teaches interns Aneeqa du Plessis and Mandlelkosi Mde, but Bush Radio station, may no longer be able to provide this service. (David Harrison/M&G)

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

The website Africa Is a Country is making its content freely available because its founder, Sean Jacobs, believes everyone should have access to African perspectives about the continent. (Nasa)

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

The editor-in-chief says the group’s newspapers had been dealing with a number of sensitive stories, ranging from corruption in the land reform to tender fraud at municipal level, in recent weeks. (Bayede News/Facebook)

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 the third black editor and the first black women editor of the Crimson in its 145-year history.

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

SABC8 ‘targeted’ because journalistic ethics at odds with SABC policy, court hears. Photo: Supplied

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.

With changing business models, critical, independent news media need to balance a multiplicity of revenue sources with finding and keeping audiences.(Oupa Nkosi)

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.

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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.

Grace Mugabe claimed an “unhinged” Engels was the actual aggressor and filed court papers saying the model had attacked her “with a knife”.

Zimbabwe police on hunt for ‘hostile’ newspaper editors

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

Sunsational: Tabloid newspaper stories provide plenty of opportunities for mischievous  wording on posters.

Hamburger writes book

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

Westbury protests halt hospital probe  (Photo Archive)

New media boss either has vision or political motives

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

(Gallo Images)

Times Media old guard butchered

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

The corner in Kagiso that had all the news.

Dispatches: With you I know I cannot go wrong

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