Who said newspaper's are dead. Look at this data visualisation of the world's top 100 newspapers which I knocked together and which tells another story.
Not sure that the assumptions in this graphic below hold water but it’s still a nice graphic so I have decided to post it anyway. What do you think? Is social media killing magazines? Are you getting more from Twitter and Facebook than a magazine can provide you with? Infographic by CartridgeSAVE.co.uk
Added on 01 February 2010
Opening of Parliament is coming up soon and we’ll have President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address to watch and analyse. Which reminds me Thabo Mbeki’s great “I am an African” speech – I think it was written by the former Cape Times editor, Tony Heard. Zuma has never produiced a seminal speech and I’d say the time is now so best he finds himself a PROPER speech writer and give us a charismatic performance. For food for thought, read this excellent analysis piece by Carol Paton at the Financial Mail on what Zuma’s presidency has achieved thus far and the challenges that lie ahead.
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08 February 2010
The iPad v Kindle battle shaking up global media and publishing is about to send some waves to South Africa’s shores. Experts say 2010 will be the year the e-book reader comes of age and at the moment there are only two main players in the ring: Apple’s iPad tablet computing device with web, multimedia, [...]
01 February 2010
2009 was such a horrendous year for print media, up against the wall because of the fall in advertising revenue and a decline in circulation, that I was surprised and cheered to stumble across a publication that actually succeeded in growing ad revenue. Unless you’re a Business Day subscriber, you wouldn’t have come across Wanted, [...]
01 February 2010
We are, most of us in this fair land, subjects of the AbaThembu kingdom – according to a declaration of secession presented to Parliament recently. If this comes as a surprise to the good folk of KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape and parts of Gauteng and the Free State – who are all [...]
01 February 2010
Caxton’s The Citizen has embarked on an incredibly bold – and high-risk – move that has got publishers and editors throughout the country talking and it’s bound to shake up the Gauteng newspaper market. As of January 1 this year, The Citizen dropped its cover price 33% from R4.50 to R3 and took its advertising rates [...]
18 January 2010
There is a major row between South Africa’s editors and Fifa, the owners of the Soccer World Cup, over what the editors charge are outrageous infringements on our constitutional right to freedom of expression. The SA Media interest group, a group made up of members of the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) and industry body [...]
11 January 2010
There’s nothing like a bit of corporate combat to kick off the year. If, like many in South Africa, you were still on holiday last week you might have missed this story on Fin24: veteran media writer Tony Koenderman on the Audit Bureau of Circulation relaxing its rules so that anything sold for less than [...]
01 January 2010
Having spent the holiday weekend watching DVD seasons of the classics it’s time for a vote. Go here to vote and see below for the map of how the voting is going. Vote here /*
01 January 2010
Found this really cool site called Ask500 which allows you to create a poll which dynamically maps how people are voting. So go ahead vote – and check out the responses from other users and where they are in the world. Click here to vote /*
30 November 2009
"You know, the hard truth is that people of your age make things happen on the internet and people of my age are roadkill. There’s nothing you can do about that." - Koos Bekker
23 November 2009
Hacks can be a decadent lot but in the past two weeks we’ve had revelations of unbelievable skulduggery in newsrooms, where reporters and editors have been accused of twisting the news to suit politicians and, bizarrely, entertainment figures and the SABC. The latest comes from Avusa’s public editor Thabo Leshilo, who wrote a thunderous column in [...]

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