What comes first - freelance or newspaper/magazine work to start off a career?
With freelancing as the long term goal, do I have to start my career at a newspaper or get straight into it?  24 Nov 2008

How do I gain entry to Sunday Times, Mail&Guardian and Independant on Sunday as an Intern
The mainstream English newspapers should be accessible to junior journalists fresh from the desk.  19 Nov 2008

Market-related salary
What is a market-related salary for a chief sub-editor at a daily newspaper?  31 Oct 2008

When Journalsits do not do their jobs properly, you get- Catwalk, the comma and the Combrink.
Journalists did not confirm their sources at Catwalk Fourways Mall  15 Sep 2008

Business Day website
Why are they not following the trend and revamping their website?  17 Jul 2008

daily voice
ons skrik vir niks  8 May 2008

Bullard
Was the Bullard perhaps too much of a Bull?  16 Apr 2008

S A Home Loans Hitler advert is offensive, and misses local market.
Hitlers image in advertising for SA Home Loans is offensive, and insensitive to the families of the millions who were murdered over race and land.  22 Jan 2008

Deon Maas and Tim du Plessis
Rapport decides to stop a short-lived Maas column after threats of boycotts from readers following a column saying even Satanists should be allowed freedom of religion.  15 Nov 2007

SABC's blistering attack on SA media
The SABC on Friday withdrew from the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) in a scathing attack on the organisation and the respected media editors and publishing houses that are members of this august body. SANEF has responded and called for a meeting to try resolve the issue. Bizcommunity.com today publishes the full text of the extraordinary SABC letter.  4 Sep 2007

M&G's Thought Leader, just a clone of Wibble.co.za?
You decide.  29 Aug 2007

Internship stress
Internship for journalism students hard to find.  28 May 2007

Gossiping
Why do some newspapers like The Daily Voice print explicit images of serious crime victims and turn it into a sensation?  24 May 2007

Sowetan Freedom Day ad: parody or reality check?
Do you think the controversial Sowetan advert parodying Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech should have been banned by the SABC? Should it have been run at all by the Sowetan when Freedom Day is supposed to be a celebration or was the newspaper giving South Africans a reality check?  3 May 2007

media ethics and codes
Don`t exist.  7 Mar 2007

What does it take to get a community newspaper going?
I have run a community newsletter in my local community and would now like to take it further than the double-sided A4 sheet.  22 Aug 2006

The role of a press club
What role should a press club play in the media world, and what should it aim for?  10 Oct 2005

Front page horror pic
I can never understand the kind of reasoning that informs the content on the Daily Sun. Yesterday, I saw a front page picture of the daily - a gruesome picture of somebody whose face was burned.  8 Feb 2005

What is Johnnic doing to Sowetan?
The low down dirty headlines are not working, they might for the Daily Sun but not for the average Sowetan readers, which is why they read Sowetan and not the Daily Sun.  10 Nov 2004

How about a second Afrikaans Sunday paper?
Rapport is become so sensational and is simply not catering for 'forward-thinking' Afrikaners (yes, believe it or not -- we are out here!!)...  8 Nov 2004

Daily Sun makes no ethics sense
In this new culture of journalistic titillation {as perpetuated by the Daily Sun}, we teach our readers that trivia is significant, that the lurid and the loopy are more important than real news.  9 Sep 2004

Where has the English language gone?
After reading an article by Barry Ronge in the Sunday Times Magazine about sub editors trashing his writing, I worry about the standard of writing in South Africa.  24 Aug 2004

Papsak canned
In light of the announcement to ban the papsak from shelves. I think it is a brilliant idea!  17 Jun 2004

ThisDay launched on 7 October - will it survive?
It is a national daily at R3.00/issue. Will advertisers support it? How does the first few issues look? The focus is quality news with daily copy from the London Times and New York Times. Sharing African focused content with the Nigerian This Day should also raise the quality and reduce costs.  9 Oct 2003