by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) It was odd that the appointment of Reggy Moalusi as editor-in-chief of the Daily Sun and Sunday Sun in October 2014 didn’t get more attention in media circles. This is the mighty Daily Sun after all — the biggest daily in the country with 260 000 circulation and 5.3-million readers.
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Grubstreet: GroundUp, Health-e News make a difference by doing news differently
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) As the mainstream press struggles with shrinking newsrooms, and online news in this country is limited mostly to opinion writing and wire services, there is a worry that many stories are not told, especially from marginalised communities in townships and rural areas.
Grubstreet: The Rand Daily Mail brand revived
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) The news that Times Media Group has brought back the famous Rand Daily Mail brand after almost 30 years is fascinating – and not because of the goodwill and nostalgia associated with the brand, but because the new RDM will be as far as you can get from the old on every level.
Grubstreet: Trolls, hate speech & robust debate
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) Online comments – and how they can veer off into bigoted nastiness and hate speech – are in the spotlight after Dr Iqbal Survé, the owner of Independent Newspapers, weighed in on comments on a column on his company’s news portal , IOL, that became aggressive and racist.
Netwerk24: Media24′s big play to find synergies between TV, online & print
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) With the launch of Netwerk24, Media24 did a very significant thing — but it might have passed you by because only a short press release about it was sent out.
Grubstreet: Seven big circulation trends in SA newspapers
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) by Gill Moodie. “Declining circulation” is a term that haunts editors and publishers today and, while some in South Africa point to the fact that Amps readership figures remain stable, the reality is that, every time a new set of Audit Bureau of Circulations of SA (ABC) numbers come out, one sees diminishing sales.
Grubstreet: M&G — subtly different for now; dramatic changes to come
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) The Mail & Guardian did an interesting, off-agenda thing recently — it launched an African news website totally distinct from its own online offering — but then the M&G specialises in doing things differently.
Grubstreet: Tim du Plessis — immigrating to TV with an editor’s passport
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) Tim du Plessis, Media24’s head of Afrikaans newspapers, retired at the end of May 2014. He has had a remarkable career that has seen him edit three newspapers — Rapport, Beeld and The Citizen — as well as time as deputy editor of City Press. Grubstreet spoke to Du Plessis about his plans for the future, the challenges of editing newspapers in a tough market and reporting on the Afrikaans community’s move to the new South Africa.
Grubstreet: Here come the radio disrupters, CliffCentral leading the pack
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) Two major disrupting forces are headed for the South African radio market that have the power to shake up the industry, just as online and blogging platforms have done to the print media.
Grubstreet: SA’s newspapers give us something to chew on
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) I see a few positives for newspapers in the recent figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation of SA (ABC), out today, for the first quarter of this year – far more than for magazines.