Press Pass: Spotong — talking to township traders by Carey Finn. Sean Press, CEO of Contact Media & Communications, the publishers of quarterly trade title, Spotong, shares insights into the niche filled by the trade title.
#SPOTLIGHT: There’s an alcoholic in the boardroom by Anon. My sobriety date is 6 December 2016. I’ve been in the ad game for almost 12 years. Our paths may have met; it’s just that I might have been too drunk to remember.
by Carey Finn. Ntombikayise Banda is striving to make science, tech, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects more accessible to South African learners. We caught up with Banda to find out what’s potting with her platform, FundaBotix.
Press Pass: Could membership programmes save the news media? by Carey Finn. They already are, says Daily Maverick's Styli Charalambous. The online daily has seen its own membership initiative go from strength to strength over the past year.
Watched: Top 10 TV shows deciphered — Oct 2019 by Richard Lord. Here are the top 10 TV shows in South Africa for October 2019. The first thing that becomes obvious, whether looking at either market segment, is that the tops shows are all dominated by local content.
The Suit: Are you a great suit or an average one? by Jason Harrison. As the late, great Bob Rightford used to say, “I’m really not interested in how hard you tried; I’m only interested in if you did what needed to be done.”