by Franz Kruger | Nov 3, 2009 | Media business
FRUSTRATED former readers of Maverick magazine can rejoice  the indomitable Branko Brkic yesterday launched an online version of the business magazine, called The Daily Maverick, writes Chantelle Benjamin in Business Day. In many ways the website...
by Franz Kruger | Nov 3, 2009 | Media business
ZIMBABWE'S leading independent publisher, Trevor Ncube, says the launch of his first ever daily paper – NewsDay – is on course despite the crisis in the government of unity which will have to license his project, writes a jocoza...
by Franz Kruger | Nov 2, 2009 | Media business
JOOST van der Westhuizen said that his axing by sports broadcaster Supersport was "part of the punishment for my mistakes", write Sally Evans and Lauren Cohen in The Times. Former Bok star Joost van der Westhuizen's biography – Man in the Mirror...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 30, 2009 | Media business
THE National Post could be shut down Friday unless a court lets parent Canwest Global Communications shift the Toronto-based paper to the company that holds its sibling newspapers, the foundering Canadian media giant said, writes Mark Fitzgerald on...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 30, 2009 | Media business
THE BBC will cull more than 100 senior managers and freeze the pay of its executive board for a further three years as part of moves to reduce its £79m executive remuneration budget by 25%, writes Mark Sweney on guardian.co.uk. The measures were announced...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 29, 2009 | Media business
THE launch of the eagerly-awaited NewsDay has been marred by the controversial dismissal of the paper’s editor, Barnabas Thondlana, writes a jocoza correspondent. NewsDay is yet to be given an operating licence by the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC)...
