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Calling all subeditorsNeed a place where you can vent, discuss grammar and post the latest pic of a homeless apostrophe? 23 Feb 2009 View comments (6) What comes first - freelance or newspaper/magazine work to start off a career?With freelancing as the long term goal, do I have to start my career at a newspaper or get straight into it? 24 Nov 2008 View comments (2) How do I gain entry to Sunday Times, Mail&Guardian and Independant on Sunday as an InternThe mainstream English newspapers should be accessible to junior journalists fresh from the desk. 19 Nov 2008 Market-related salaryWhat is a market-related salary for a chief sub-editor at a daily newspaper? 31 Oct 2008 When Journalsits do not do their jobs properly, you get- Catwalk, the comma and the Combrink.Journalists did not confirm their sources at Catwalk Fourways Mall 15 Sep 2008 View comments (2) Business Day websiteWhy are they not following the trend and revamping their website? 17 Jul 2008 View comments (10) S A Home Loans Hitler advert is offensive, and misses local market.Hitlers image in advertising for SA Home Loans is offensive, and insensitive to the families of the millions who were murdered over race and land. 22 Jan 2008 View comments (5) Deon Maas and Tim du PlessisRapport decides to stop a short-lived Maas column after threats of boycotts from readers following a column saying even Satanists should be allowed freedom of religion. 15 Nov 2007 View comments (12) SABC's blistering attack on SA mediaThe SABC on Friday withdrew from the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) in a scathing attack on the organisation and the respected media editors and publishing houses that are members of this august body. SANEF has responded and called for a meeting to try resolve the issue. Bizcommunity.com today publishes the full text of the extraordinary SABC letter. 4 Sep 2007 View comments (2) GossipingWhy do some newspapers like The Daily Voice print explicit images of serious crime victims and turn it into a sensation? 24 May 2007 View comments (9) Sowetan Freedom Day ad: parody or reality check?Do you think the controversial Sowetan advert parodying Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech should have been banned by the SABC? Should it have been run at all by the Sowetan when Freedom Day is supposed to be a celebration or was the newspaper giving South Africans a reality check? 3 May 2007 View comments (6) What does it take to get a community newspaper going?I have run a community newsletter in my local community and would now like to take it further than the double-sided A4 sheet. 22 Aug 2006 View comments (11) The role of a press clubWhat role should a press club play in the media world, and what should it aim for? 10 Oct 2005 View comments (35) Front page horror picI can never understand the kind of reasoning that informs the content on the Daily Sun. Yesterday, I saw a front page picture of the daily - a gruesome picture of somebody whose face was burned. 8 Feb 2005 View comments (13) What is Johnnic doing to Sowetan?The low down dirty headlines are not working, they might for the Daily Sun but not for the average Sowetan readers, which is why they read Sowetan and not the Daily Sun. 10 Nov 2004 View comments (8) How about a second Afrikaans Sunday paper?Rapport is become so sensational and is simply not catering for 'forward-thinking' Afrikaners (yes, believe it or not -- we are out here!!)... 8 Nov 2004 View comments (16) Daily Sun makes no ethics senseIn this new culture of journalistic titillation {as perpetuated by the Daily Sun}, we teach our readers that trivia is significant, that the lurid and the loopy are more important than real news. 9 Sep 2004 View comments (23) Where has the English language gone?After reading an article by Barry Ronge in the Sunday Times Magazine about sub editors trashing his writing, I worry about the standard of writing in South Africa. 24 Aug 2004 View comments (28) Papsak cannedIn light of the announcement to ban the papsak from shelves. I think it is a brilliant idea! 17 Jun 2004 View comments (9) ThisDay launched on 7 October - will it survive?It is a national daily at R3.00/issue. Will advertisers support it? How does the first few issues look? The focus is quality news with daily copy from the London Times and New York Times. Sharing African focused content with the Nigerian This Day should also raise the quality and reduce costs. 9 Oct 2003 |
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