West Africa build gathers pace for The Conversation Africa
The Conversation Africa starts an exciting chapter with the arrival of two new colleagues who will be working from our offices in the Nigerian Academy of Science building on the University of Lagos...
View ArticleHappy Boss's Day to Biz boss, Andre Rademan
Celebrated annually on 16 October, Boss's Day is an opportunity for employees to acknowledge the bosses - those leaders who have played their part in helping them along their chosen career paths.Read...
View ArticleEgyptian journalist Esraa Abdel Fattah arrested on false news charges
A police van is seen in Alexandria, Egypt, on September 27, 2019. Security forces recently arrested and allegedly tortured journalist Esraa Abdel Fattah. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Amr Abdallah...
View Article2019 Feathers Awards winners announced
The winners of the 2019 Feathers Awards were recently announced in Johannesburg. The awards recognise South African personalities and institutions, activists, performing artists, sportspeople and media...
View Article#BlackWednesday: Sanef chair Mahlatse Mahlase calls on journos to continue to...
Mahlatse Mahlase delivering her speech at the Sanef Black Wednesday Dinner. Image credit: Sanef.</span>The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) hosted a gala dinner on Friday, 18 October...
View ArticleCPJ announces 2019 International Press Freedom Awards
Maxence Melo Mubyazi.</span>The Committee to Protect Journalists will honour journalists from Brazil, India, Nicaragua, and Tanzania with the 2019 International Press Freedom Awards amid the...
View ArticleKey findings from Warc's Media Allocation Benchmarks report
Image credit: Fabian Blank on Unsplash.</span>After using its database of effective advertising campaigns to evaluate 1,100 case studies between 2009 and 2018, Warc has released its Media...
View ArticleNigerian military targeted journalists' phones, computers with 'forensic...
Hamza Idris (left), an editor with the Daily Trust newspaper, sits with colleague Hussaini Garba Mohammed in their office in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, in February 2019. The office was raided in...
View ArticleUnlocking the web's untold censorship stories
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>The internet is not one network, but thousands of interconnected networks. How can anyone know how they are controlled without inspecting them all? In 2012, the...
View ArticleUgandan journalist wins APO media award
Nila Yasmin, APO Group African Women in Media Award Winner receiving the APO Group African Women in Media Award from Nicolas Ponpigne-mognard, founder and chairman, APO Group</span>Ugandan...
View ArticleAnnouncing Nahana Communications Group: An innovative offering launched to...
South Africa's advertising and marketing communication industry has a new group of agencies, Nahana Communications Group.Read more... | Send to a friend
View ArticleJournalists at risk ahead of unity government in Sudan
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>South Sudanese authorities confiscated the accreditation and work permit of Associated Press' correspondent, Sam Mednick, last week...Read more... | Send to a friend
View ArticleKey findings from Wan-Ifra's 30th World Press Trends report
Image credit: Roman Kraft on Unsplash.</span>The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (Wan-Ifra) recently released the 30th World Press Trends report.Read more... | Send to a friend
View Article5 steps to becoming a smarter target marketer
Dr Carl Driesener, senior marketing scientist at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute (EBI) of marketing science in Australia explaining the 5 steps to becoming a smarter target marketer at Spark Media's...
View ArticleMedia: How to protect your phone from spyware
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued a global safety advisory for journalists regarding the use of Pegasus spyware to target the media. The...
View ArticleCPJ deepens database of attacks on the press
He couldn't have known it at the time, but when a Moroccan court sentenced editor Mohammed al-Herd on August 4, 2003, to three years in prison, he was emblematic of a new trend, one that would...
View ArticlePutting the 'me' in Africa's media and entertainment industry
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>Consumer demand for personalisation drives revenue growth in Africa's Entertainment & Media industry, according to PwC's Africa Outlook, which is a...
View Article#AfricaCom: Why 'African time' is now for African storytelling, by Africans
Yolisa Phahle, CEO of general entertainment at the MultiChoice Group, presenting the final keynote session of the second day of AfricaCom 2019.</span>Yolisa Phahle, CEO of general entertainment...
View ArticleWarc announces Best Use of Data shortlist for Warc Media Awards 2019
Nicole Hartnett, senior marketing scientist, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute. Image source: [[https://www.marketingscience.info/staff/nicole-hartnett/ Ehrenberg-Bass Institute website]].</span>Warc has...
View Article#EpicaAwards2019: Day three results
© Epica Awards.</span>Three days of Epica jury proceedings in Amsterdam have come to an end.Read more... | Send to a friend
View Article