by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) Top SA radio presenter Gareth Cliff launched CliffCentral in May 2014. Just over a year since the launch, Grubstreet put these questions via email to Cliff to find out how the new venture is doing.
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Grubstreet: A guide to programmatic ads
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) If you’re a media planner you probably know something about programmatic advertising – the next big thing in online – and are wanting to understand it more. If you’re a digital publisher, you fear it because it looks set to drive down ad revenue and take it out of the hands of your ad sales team.
Grubstreet: SA’s student media on a growth path
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) From the fall of the Cecil John Rhodes statue at the University of Cape Town to the Student Representative Council (SRC) president’s “I love Hitler” pronouncements at Wits University, South Africa’s campuses have been a big national story this year.
Grubstreet: BBC & AFP look to Africa’s tech revolution
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) Two of the biggest news organisations operating in Africa – the BBC and Agence France-Presse (AFP) – are experimenting with different ways of covering and presenting the continent for the digital age.
Grubstreet: User-generated content — beating the wire services
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) What is user generated content — or UGC in digital speak — worth journalistically?
Grubstreet: Media lapses in reporting on children
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) The rule of thumb when it comes to reporting on children is think once, twice, three times about how you’re going to do – and then think again. And consult the South African Press Code or a media lawyer.
Grubstreet: ABC circ 10-year comparison — how the mighty have fallen
How the mighty have fallen. That is the striking impression when you look at the most recent ABC circulation figures for South Africa’s newspapers and magazines – for the fourth quarter of 2014 – and compare them with the numbers from 10 years ago.
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: Kuier’s secret to success
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) Media24 announced recently that it is launching a new fortnightly women’s magazine called mine! – a move which tells us as much about the state of the magazine industry as it does about the clever team behind this new title.
The English-language magazine, which is aimed at LSM 6-8 women and will launch in August, is coming from the same people who do the Afrikaans-language fortnightly, Kuier.
Grubstreet: SA editors recall the day Nelson Mandela died
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) For the past couple of years — and especially last year as the health of Nelson Mandela health steadily deteriorated — South Africa’s editors waited, prepared and planned for when the father of the nation would pass on. Still, most were dreading it because they knew it would be one of the most challenging, extraordinary stories of our time.