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    by Published on 25th June 2011 03:12 PM

    Pretoria - The leadership of the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) and Minister in the Presidency Responsible for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, Collins Chabane have agreed that they will take steps to ...
    by Published on 18th February 2008 02:02 PM

    Cape Town - With only weeks to go before the Zimbabwean elections, there has been no let-up in the slanted coverage of the campaign by the country's public broadcaster, according to the independent Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe (MMPZ). ...
    by Published on 24th January 2008 08:54 AM

    afrol News, 18 January - The state-controlled media regulatory body [Media and Information Commission (MIC)] in Zimbabwe has invited the country's banned newspaper, Daily News, to apply for registration.

    Owned by Associated Newspapers ...
    by Published on 23rd October 2007 08:06 AM

    The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation, Ponhele Ya France, says public broadcasters continue to play an important role in the socio-economic development of countries. ...
    by Published on 18th September 2007 03:03 PM

    The Director-General of Swedish Radio, Kerstin Brunnberg says public broadcasters have a crucial role to play in today's increasingly multi-chanelled, commercial media environment.
    Brunnberg who is ...
    by Published on 14th September 2007 08:38 AM

    A total of 109 primary and secondary schools have been selected as beneficiaries of the first phase of the 'Schools, University Access Programme to Digital Lifestyle' project of the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) an initiative of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

    The projects to be completed in ...
    by Published on 14th September 2007 08:34 AM

    African Bloggers can only make more profits by developing new revenue streams that can generate income.

    "A serious blogger who is interested in making business can click to 'Linked In' site that is basically for business people, it has got a bandwidth of 178.51 MB, 2453 regular visits and 1 675 unique visits," says ...
    by Published on 14th September 2007 07:51 AM

    Print newspapers must re-strategise if they wish to keep up with new information and communication technologies (ICTs) since their emergence is enabling citizens to access news long before media houses publish their newspapers.

    Tanzanian blogger Ndesanjo Macha said this ...
    by Published on 14th September 2007 07:50 AM

    Pomp and colour marked the official opening of the 11th edition of Highway Africa being held under the theme: Quality and professionalism: The case for new media.

    Speaking during the opening ceremony, Dr Saleem Badat, Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes ...
    by Published on 14th September 2007 07:45 AM

    The longest and loudest complaint by African leaders is that western media portray Africa as desperate and hopeless, the west has now responded.

    The complaints have been directed to the global media houses such as the CNN, BBC, AP, AFP and Reuters that have been accused of only covering civil wars, hunger, corruption ...
    by Published on 7th September 2007 01:06 PM

    Nairobi - Kenya's Assistant Minister of Information and Communication Koigi Wamwere has called on the media in Africa to play a more active role as a driving force for unity and development.

    Launching the first ...