by Franz Kruger | Mar 27, 2009 | Media business
The economic downturn has been cited as a reason for the redesign of the Sunday Times and Business Day, writes Kenichi Serino for journalism.co.za. The Sunday Times in February reduced its size and re-organised its paper’s sections. More...
by Franz Kruger | Mar 25, 2009 | Media business
With speculation that Telkom Media is on the verge of closing, On Digital Media (ODM) could be the only company left to break the monopoly held by MultiChoice, writes Thabiso Mochiko in Business Report. ODM said when it received its subscription broadcasting licence a...
by Franz Kruger | Mar 17, 2009 | Media business
None of the Independent News & Media (INM) group's core newspaper assets, including those in South Africa, were for sale, a spokesman for INM said, writes Ann Crotty in Business Report. Pat Walshe told Business Report that management was looking only at the...
by Franz Kruger | Mar 17, 2009 | Media business
Publishers of The Zimbabwe Independent and The Standard are embroiled in a legal wrangle over rentals with the property managers of its Forestry Commission-owned Bulawayo offices, according to a report in The Standard. The wrangle started in November last year after...
by Franz Kruger | Mar 13, 2009 | Media business
Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube has announced that he is launching a new daily paper in Zimbabwe, writes our correspondent. The paper, NewsDay, will be launched soon in a project which Ncube said will cost R40 million. Ncube already owns the Zimbabwe Independent and...
by Franz Kruger | Mar 12, 2009 | Media business
Hollywood actor Ryan Phillippe is set to star in a film about the true story of four South African photographers who captured the brutal violence during the death-throes of apartheid, writes Werner Swart in The Times. Production on the film The Bang Bang Club...
