by Franz Kruger | Feb 22, 2010 | General media news
THE SABC was on Sunday tight-lipped over a newspaper report that it has suspended its popular 19:00 newsreader, Mahendra Raghunath, according to a report on news24.com. "I refuse to discuss staff issues. It doesn't help anyone," said spokesperson Kaizer...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 17, 2010 | General media news
BOTSWANA Television (Btv) looks set to adopt the latest broadcast digital technology, known as the ISDB, popularised by Japan and Brazil, writes Monkagedi Gaotlhobogw in Mmegi. The technology will be unveiled in Gaborone during a one-day seminar scheduled for the Btv...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 16, 2010 | General media news
CASH-STRAPPED SABC News is facing a staff revolt and the prospect of further scrutiny from Parliament's portfolio committee over concerns that the quality of the equipment being used to produce news bulletins may be old or out of date, writes Edwin Naidu in the...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 12, 2010 | General media news
MORE than two million Kenyans are on Facebook, with new research indicating that the popular social networking website is slowly edging out the e-mail as the preferred mode of electronic communication, writes Kui Kinyanjui in Business Daily. New research from Synovate...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 5, 2010 | General media news
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Siphiwe Nyanda has refused to indicate whether some staff at state-owned entities SABC and broadband communication company Sentech are facing retrenchment, writes Amukelani Chauke in The Times. Questions of possible retrenchments at the...
by Admin | Jan 29, 2010 | General media news
The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa announce a new dual-degree programme, beginning in August 2010, which will allow students to study journalism in both New York and Johannesburg...