Lessons for the offended from a long dead philosopher general
Reflecting on the continued saga of Huffington Post and “Shelley Garland”, Alec Hogg was reminded of the very sensible suggestion that when you’re in a hole, just stop digging.
Reflecting on the continued saga of Huffington Post and “Shelley Garland”, Alec Hogg was reminded of the very sensible suggestion that when you’re in a hole, just stop digging.
The South African Reserve Bank announced it would forfeit about R14.5m belonging to Homix to the state, three days after amaBhungane reported how it appeared to be a Gupta letterbox company.
The online dream, where did it all go wrong for publishers? In this insightful piece, online guru Russel Yeo takes a look at the challenges faced by those in the digital space.
Pundits have long predicting that mobile companies would move more aggressively into media. After the Verizon acquisition of AOL, others are sure to follow.
There are good interviewers and then there’s Ruda Landman. Her professionalism honed through decades co-hosting the country’s top news-focused TV programme Carte Blanche, Ruda recently branched out on her own. Among her assignments is a series of interviews focusing on change for Brightrock, the innovative life insurance company created by a group who worked together … Read more
You have to love the brave new world we live in. Bricks and Mortar, Employees etc. are all so passé. Vice has been expanding its video business and hard news journalism often posting controversial; reports and video footage. Focusing on the younger viewer, who according to co-founder Shane Smith are angry and feeling disenfranchised, and they … Read more
Between the the distribution of last week’s newsletter and the writing of my weekly Undictated column for Business Day, a London coroner released results of her investigation into the death of the Merrill Lynch intern Moritz Erhardt. That got me thinking again about the topic of  workaholics. As did an email from old friend, … Read more
The media industry is a tough place right now. Many of its chief executives have become somewhat less humane. But the chief executive of AOL, Tim Armstrong, raised the bar to a new level when addressing around 1 000 staff on his group’s struggling hyper-local publishing business Patch. During the discussion he noticed that Patch’s … Read more