by Franz Kruger | Feb 6, 2008 | Media business
Radio 702 and some other media deserves credit for doing a great job during the Eskom power crisis, writes Anton Harber in Business Day.The station put pressure on those responsible, and gave accurate and useful information on blackouts and traffic...
by Franz Kruger | Jan 30, 2008 | Media business
The African Editors' Forum has expressed its dismay at the unfolding crisis in Kenya, which has affected journalists as much as the rest of the citizenry. Read its open letter on the subject. OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI, RAILA ODINGA AND AU...
by Franz Kruger | Jan 24, 2008 | Media business
An overview of 50 years of African journalism, edited by Elizabeth Barratt and Guy Berger, has been published by the African Editors' Forum and two other media organisations. Wits University's Phakamisa Ndzamela reviews the book. Phakamisa...
by Franz Kruger | Jan 11, 2008 | Media business
The media have not done enough to report the violence in Kenya, but the explosion of informal information networks is a very positive developments, Salim Amin tells Dipesh Pabari in an interview for Fahamu. Freelance writer Dipesh Pabari interviews Salim Amin, the...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 2, 2007 | Media business
Afrikaans editor Schalk Pienaar was the ultimate verligte – that brand of Afrikaner who opposed the extremism of hard-core apartheid, writes former Cape Times editor Tony Heard on the Order of Ikhamanga (Silver) being awarded to him. He laid the basis...
by Franz Kruger | Sep 30, 2007 | Media business
Africa's own CNN – a longstanding dream, which may soon become reality through the planned A24 channel. Chris Cramer, former MD of CNN International, outlines the new channel's plans. Chris Cramer writes in the Mail &...
