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.
Tag archives: Media
Smart Africa TV: New social platform connects broadcasters and TV viewers
by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) In this video interview, we talk to Ulrich Stark, founder of Wezwa, about how this new social platform works with broadcasters on TV shows such as Generations, Binnelanders and Muvhango.
Motive: Welcome to the “wondtacular” world of click bait
by Andrew Trench (@andrewtrench) Welcome to the world of “click bait” headlines, a phenomenon that irritates me to the point of distraction as they pollute my social-media time lines, my emails and are seeping into every kind of media.
Africa Dispatches: The US$19.9 billion media market
by Mandy de Waal (@mandyldewaal) Growth in media spend in Africa is outpacing the US and Western Europe, while media investments are alive, thanks to the politically connected or business people with big egos and pockets to match. [a Mark Magazine: Africa Dispatches feature]
Print mags transition to digital with Zeddit #interview
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Zeddit aims to help print media transition to digital channels — taking the print product, and all the resources pushed into its content and production, and leveraging them online. Find out more in this interview with founder Jonathan Harris.
Cannes Lions 2014: SA nets ten more Lions
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced the winners of the Mobile, Media and Outdoor Lions categories announced. South Africa took one gold, two silvers and 7 bronzes across the three categories.
The agency boss who wants to hit the reset button on media
by Herman Manson (@marklives) New MEC Cape Town MD John Beale thinks media agencies are in deep deep trouble, what with a dysfunctional revenue model and an old school obsession with traditional paid-for media, and that they will be toast in five to ten years if lots of things don’t drastically change — such as their business model, positioning and offering.
April 1: Punk’d by the media
by Herman Manson (@marklives) It’s 1 April 2014 and news sites, newspapers and broadcasters are out to get you. With elections just around the corner, April Fool’s stories dealt with popular voter gripes: News24 announced Western Cape premier Helen Zille is moving to Khayelitsha; MyBroadband tackled Nkandla’s ‘but I never asked for it’ telecommunications infrastructure; and TimesLive reported that you can dodge paying e-tolls by driving exactly 113 km/h.
2013 Big Reads: The 40 best read stories of 2013 (Part 4)
2013 Big Reads: The 40 best read stories of 2013 (Part 4)
2013 Big Reads: The 40 best read stories of 2013
We list the 40 most trafficked stories on MarkLives in 2013.