by Franz Kruger | Apr 15, 2009 | Media business
Veteran editor Bill Saidi, who once worked as an Assistant Editor for the banned Daily News newspaper, has been offered the job of Deputy Editor in Chief at the state owned Herald newspaper, writes Lance Guma for SW Radio Africa. Saidi also worked for publisher Trevor...
by Franz Kruger | Apr 13, 2009 | Media business
As the SABC's financial woes continue to mount, the public broadcaster's latest cost-cutting exercise is to close down three of its 12 international bureaus, writes Candice Bailey in The Star. The SABC on Friday night confirmed that its offices in Jamaica, the...
by Franz Kruger | Apr 9, 2009 | Media business
TV Production companies will face bankruptcy and others will be forced to retrench actors, directors and scriptwriters if the SABC does not solve its financial crisis soon, writes Borrie La Grange in The Times. A crisis meeting was held yesterday at SABC headquarters...
by Franz Kruger | Apr 8, 2009 | Media business
SABC acting-Chief Executive Officer Gab Mampone, says the death of Communications Minister Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has come as a great shock, according to a report on sabcnews.com.  71-year-old Matsepe-Casaburri died of natural causes at the Kloof...
by Franz Kruger | Apr 7, 2009 | Media business
The Associated Press will not be covering this year's IPL cricket tournament in South Africa because organizers have imposed unacceptable conditions on media outlets covering the event, according to a report on iol.co.za. The AP and major international news...
by Franz Kruger | Apr 6, 2009 | Media business
Zimbabwean journalists, for long strident in their criticism of President Robert Mugabe for clinging to power, have shifted their attention to their own association  the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ), writes Edgar Gweshe in the Standard. At the...
