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SANEF statement on Loerie media accreditation issue

MarkLives doesn’t normally publish press releases in its main content feed but since this joint statement by SANEF and the Loerie Award relates, at least in part, to the issue of limited media accreditation that was initially raised on these pages, we are making an exception.

The statement, reprinted in full below, follows a complaint to SANEF by BizCommunity.com on the matter of media accreditation to the Loerie Awards, and the terms and conditions attached to it.

MarkLives had previously raised the issue of the partial accreditation of its editor, Herman Manson, which we felt was the result of an unfair and biased accreditation system that was applied with no consistently (some journalists had to submit a ‘media plan’ others did not), and was open to abuse to discriminate against specific journalists. Our case is set out here and we stand by it.

MarkLives welcomes the announcement that the Loerie Awards will be revamping their media accreditation procedures for the 2013 event. We have serious reservations about how the process was handled this year and any improvement that makes the current opaque procedure more transparent is positive news and a step in the right direction.

Analysis: Moneyweb vs Fin24 — and how it could upend our media

by Roger Hislop (@d0dja) In a legal clash that shows all the signs of setting the tone — and the legal precedent — for our entire industry for decades to come, why is everyone sitting back and leaving it up to corporate lawyers and high court judges to define what is, and isn’t, allowed to be done in the name of profitable publishing, and what is, or isn’t, in the interests of journalism, publishing, South African readers and civil society?

Media defies govt over Nkandla photo ‘ban’

by Herman Manson (@marklives) The media in its broadest sense, from print to social media, has collectively defied the ministers of the ‘security cluster’ in the South African government who is claiming that is illegal to publish photographs of President Jacob Zuma’s taxpayer upgraded Nkandla home, by, well, publishing photographs of President Jacob Zuma’s taxpayer upgraded Nkandla home.

Gill Moodie talks to Mondli Makhanya on life after the Sunday Times

by Gill Moodie @GrubstreetSA Mondli Makhanya has resigned from Times Media Group (TMG) – previously known as Avusa – to write a book.

The former Sunday Times and Mail & Guardian editor resigned as editor-in-chief of the company’s newspapers – a position he took up in 2010 – at the end of December, a fact that flew under the radar screen amid the festive season.

Also little known is that the editorship of the TMG-owned Sunday World is vacant after Wally Mbhele left to start his own consultancy late last year while the grapevine is alive with speculation on who will net the editorship of Business Day – which is half owned by TMG – after Peter Bruce was appointed BDFM publisher in September last year.

Makhanya told Grubstreet this week that industry rumours that he may be talking to consortia interested in buying Independent Newspapers is untrue.

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