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Vosloo (Part 2): On shrinking newsrooms, Afrikaans and age

Naspers chairman Ton Vosloo oversaw his last Naspers AGM recently before retiring in April 2015. In this second part of an interview with Gill Moodie, as part of here Backstory series, he talks about today’s shrunken newsrooms, the future of the Afrikaans press and his plans for retirement. (Click here for Part 1 of the interview.)

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Now SABC drops Generations

Cape Town – Against a background of reports that President Jacob Zuma’s daughter Gugu Zuma is working on a replacement production for top South African soapie Generations, the SABC announced on Friday that the show will be off air until December.

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SABC wants secret reports to parly

THE South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC’s) chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, said that its accounting to Parliament is giving its competitors the upper hand and has called on MPs to afford the public broadcaster an opportunity to table its strategies behind closed doors.

Johannesburg – The Press Ombudsman on Friday ordered the Sunday Times and The Times newspapers to apologise to former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils for breaching the Press Code in a headline and story respectively.

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Bots reporter gets asylum in SA

Senior reporter Edgar Tsimane of Botswana’s Sunday Standard has been granted asylum by the South African government after he fled Botswana in fear of his safety, according to a statement from the Media Institute of Southern Africa.

Province: Gauteng City: Sandton Education level: Graduate or post graduate degree in journalism and media studies Job level: Junior with opportunities for advancement Type: Permanent, probation period Job description Are you passionate about writing in the digital age? Do you enjoy the immediacy of communicating online and through social media, but still value print magazine publishing and the skills it requires?

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Radio shows

In The Science Inside, we asked whether boycotting Woolies will make a difference to the conflict in Gaza; Everyone knows that sex sells, so we decided to speak to those who sell sex, in light of the upcoming Sexpo in the latest Business Buzz show and on Law Focus this week we hear about the torture that's become the norm in prisons and the law around it.

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