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This may be a little hard on the heels of yesterday’s interactive feature by this was too interesting to pass on. Below, see how the Twitter action unfolded around First National Bank’s advert series showing young South Africans apparently giving their own views on the future of the country and which so annoyed the ANC … Read more
There are some fascinating things going on in this Twitter analysis of the storm that erupted on Saturday after the National Press Club announced that “The Rhino” was the 2012 Newsmaker of the Year – especially about influence in this now ubiquitous social network. But first a little of how this data map was done … Read more
There are some fascinating things going on in this Twitter analysis of the storm that erupted on Saturday after the National Press Club announced that “The Rhino” was the 2012 Newsmaker of the Year – especially about influence in this now ubiquitous social network. But first a little of how this data map was done … Read more
What an interesting illustration of how loooooong it takes to write a breaking-news story, edit it, design a page and then physically print a newspaper with ink on paper! A quick round-up of the front pages of some the big international papers (at 10am Central African Time) shows they had to go to print before … Read more
The mind-boggling news that Amplats (which Business Report is calling Angloplat) is shutting shafts and cutting up to 14 000 jobs played big across news and business publications today – as it should! I thought both Business Day (using Amplats) and Business Report (the business insert of the Indie papers… unfortunately I don’t have its … Read more
Not a lot to get too excited over in today’s papers although The Star’s new angle on the mystery “supercar” crash is an interesting one (click here for the full story on IOL). But, all told, none of the splashes are particularly special and neither are the pics. Rather, the land story leading The Mercury … Read more
With newsrooms getting smaller and retrenchments hitting most of South Africa’s media houses, never has the time been better for entrepreneurial journalists to strike out on their own and build their own online businesses. Falling circulation and squeezed revenues – especially for the print media – means that much of the traditional media is preoccupied … Read more
With newsrooms getting smaller and retrenchments hitting most of South Africa’s media houses, never has the time been better for entrepreneurial journalists to strike out on their own and build their own online businesses. Falling circulation and squeezed revenues – especially for the print media – means that much of the traditional media is preoccupied … Read more
Full points to the Cape Argus today for a punchy tabloid take on the farm protests in the Western Cape: lekker, bold design and a great picture to go with a real red-top challenge to the government to sort things out. As an aside though, I do think the Cape Town papers would do well … Read more
A really fun (cricket-related) front-page pic at The Herald here while many of the other papers are sticking with education. The Daily News’ splash headline — Cyclist ‘flew like a bird’ — is pretty gruesome but it looks like an enthralling read and I’m sure it was a well read story in KZN!