🔒 Boardroom Talk – Our new LIVE BLOG; catch my talk at Hermanus Fynarts; and behind Russian frontline

By Alec Hogg

Three pointers today:

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1. We kicked off a fast news “live blog” yesterday. You’ll find it at the top of the BizNews.com home page. Innovations take time to settle, but I’m really happy with our first swing at this catchall section where, through the day, we post newsworthy information from SA and abroad. The intention is to encourage you to visit the site more often. Click here to check out Today’s News in Brief.

2. I’ll be contributing to Hermanus’s Fynarts festival held annually in my new hometown, by doing a breakfast presentation called Yellow Press Mark II on Sunday morning. The Yellow Press refers to unethical practices that characterised my trade during the late 1800s and early 1900s as technology opened up the newspaper business to many new players, especially in the USA. Lots of parallels with today – and some signposts to the likely future of the media business. If you’re anywhere near the Hermanus Golf Club and fancy a decent breakfast, click here for more details.

3. Rounding out the trifecta, I’d like to recommend a quite exceptional interview by my colleague Chris Steyn who connected with Andrei Kebkalo, a Ukrainian who lived near the Russian border and trains civilians to become guerilla fighters. So far 2 000 of them. A fascinating window into how ordinary Ukrainians have responded to the invasion. An extraordinary people. Click here.    

Sterkte.

Alec