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Dean Singleton, the Vice Chairman
and CEO of the MediaNews Group in
the United States, has joined the
programme of the World Newspaper
Congress, where he will present his
group's strategy plans for the next five
years, while addressing the current
difficulties of the most challenging market in the
here for more.
world. ClickLhere
Intelligence Publishing has recently been
restructured. Its titles are now published and
managed by Panorama Publications. ClickLhere
here for
more.
On 10 April, the SABC switched
on several low-power
transmitters in the Karoo as part of
Government's Imbizo Focus Week.
ClickLhere
here for more.
Bonnie Morris, Business Report's Cape editor,
has passed away.
At the Mondi Shanduka Awards, Media24's
newspapers made a clean sweep when the
Witness took the McCall trophy in the under 50 000
circulation category, Beeld took the Frewin trophy for
newspapers in the over 50 000 circulation category,
and Weekend Witness took the Joel Mervis trophy for
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the best weekend newspaper. ClickLhere
Business Day is rebranding its Surveys section
as Business Day Insights. The first feature was
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published on Friday, 11 April. ClickLhere
The launch issue of Isolezwe ngeSonto has set
a new local publishing record with the first issue
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selling over 40 000 copies. ClickLhere
Cars in Action magazine
has launched its brand
new online edition, on
Tuesday, 8 April. The website
was launched as an instant
motoring news resource,
custom-tailored to the exact
wants and needs of the South African reader. Click
here for more.
Lhere
TygerBurger was presented with the
Professional Management Review's Africa Golden
Arrow Award for excellence in the Western Cape
local community newspapers category, for the
second year running, at a high profile award
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Runner's World won a gold medal
at the annual Advantage AdMag
Awards that took place in Johannesburg
this week. The magazine was awarded
for excellency in publishing in the sports
magazine category. Paul Kaye,
publisher of Runner’s World accepted
the award. ClickLhere
here for more.
Sarie was awarded gold in the
ADvantage ADmag Awards as Best
Women's Magazine (24-35) of 2007, for
the second consecutive year. The
magazine was judged on its content;
production values; appearance;
circulation and advertising support.
ClickLhere
here for more.
Canderel is sponsoring Marie Claire's Coffee
Couture in the August insert of Marie Claire. The
Coffee Couture book will give consumers a nifty
coffee guide by becoming consumers' 'little black
book of coffee shops'. ClickLhere
here for more.
Ryk Neethling, Olympic gold medallist swimmer,
has been secured for the cover of Men's Health,
August issue. ClickLhere
here for more.
During May, Saltwater GIRL magazine - in
association with Rimmel London and M1
Management - embarks upon the third annual Model
Search, in search for unconventional beauty. Click
here for more.
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NG Kids magazine has won a Gold
award for Best Children's Magazine
in the age category 5 to 13 years old at
this years AdMag Awards. NG Kids
demonstrates that learning can be fun
and the 21.7% year-on-year increase
in total paid circulation (Oct to Dec
ABC) is testimony to this. ClickLhere
here
for more.
Best Life magazine has received Gold in the male
category, at the Advantage Admag Awards. Click
Lhere
here for more.
SALESGURU, the magazine for
sales professionals, made its
April on shelf debut with a dashing
cover – Why sales is the greatest
career in the world. SALESGURU is
the only magazine in South Africa
today that is focused purely on the
subject of selling. It's a hands-on
learning tool for all aspiring sales
professionals. Clicklhere
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Fo l l o w i n g t h e s u c c e s s f u l
implementation of the Channel
Shuffle six months ago,
MultiChoice has taken note of
feedback from customers and has made further
improvements to its DStv's channel numbering and
grouping. ClickLhere
here for more.
Radio Pulpit’s new transmitter has been
here for
installed and is now switched on. ClickLhere
more.
Jacaranda 94.2 has embarked on a proactive
initiative in a bid to alleviate the widespread
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problem of potholes. ClickLhere
On Wednesday, 16 April, the South African
Advertising Research Foundation (SAARF)
announced the latest SAARF RAMS release at a
presentation held at the Bryanston Country Club. The
fieldwork for this wave is a combination of two fieldwork
periods covering beginning October 2007 to early
December 2007 and mid January 2008 to beginning
March 2008. Overall, time spent listening has remained
stable period-on-period at a national average of 4 hours
and 20 minutes, with weekly listenership increasing
year-on-year, and daily listenership decreasing year-
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on-year. Clicklhere
24.com has acquired a controlling stake in local
social networking group, Blueworld Communities.
ClickLhere
here for more.
Podcamp SA will take place this Saturday, 19
April from 09:00 to 17:00 in Bloemfontein. Click
here for more.
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PUBLICATIONS IN THE PIPELINE
My Day
2 Inspire U Media is launching a new wedding
publication called My Day, towards the end of April.
The magazine with its unique size, differs from
currently available wedding titles in that it is
innovative, bringing refreshing, creative and up-to-
date news to the bride-to-be. It is an indispensable
resource to anyone getting married or helping to plan
a wedding. My Day also targets international brides
who wants to get married in South Africa. As a result,
it will be distributed internationally through leading
South African wedding co-ordinators, and at
international bridal fairs. The editor, Elna Coetzer, has
nine years experience in the wedding-magazine
industry. My Day will be published twice a year,
distributed by Magscene. It will be available at
leading retailers, priced at R29.95. For more
information, call 2 Inspire U Media on: (021) 556-
3119.
NEW ON AIR
Youth Expression
Youth Expression is a live current affairs show on
SABC1 every Tuesday at 18:30. It provides the youth
of Mzansi with a platform to express their views and
engage with prominent role players about important
issues affecting their daily lives. The show covers
news and breaking issues as they affect young
people, and highlights their views on these issues.
ClickLhere
here for more.
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NEW ONLINE
GoTravel24.com
The 24.com network
has recently
l a u n c h e d
GoTravel24.com , a
South African travel
website touting itself
as “the virtual travel
agent for South
African travellers”. The website offers travellers all-
day access to a wide array of online travel
information, from hotel accommodation to travel
blogs. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, travel sites
are the fourth most popular destination online for
South Africans, accounting for 11 percent of all time
spent online. For example, among South Africa’s
more than five million online users, over 557 000
hours were spent visiting travel sites during the
month of August last year. Visitors to GoTravel24 can
search for accommodation, kulula flights and car
rental options among six domestic destinations
(Johannesburg, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town,
Durban and the Garden Route), as well as the island
of Mauritius. ClickLhere
here for more.
Your Parenting
Your Parenting, the new
parenting website
launched mid-April, is
Alchemy Publishing’s
latest brand. The website
is available in both English and Afrikaans. Alchemy
Publishing is the specialist publisher of parenting
magazines such as Your Pregnancy, Your Baby, Your
Child and Baba & Kleuter. Your Parenting caters for
expectant parents and parents with children from
newborns to preteens. Your Parenting offers
personalized, stage-based content and an interactive
on-line community. “If there’s a kids’ birthday party
featured in Your Child, readers can download the
party invitation from our site, and a Your Baby reader
might go online to answer a poll based on her latest
magazine article,” says Editor Lee van Loggerenberg.
ClickLhere
here for more.
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
After being SABC’s political editor for nearly 9 months,
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Abbey Makoe has resigned. ClickLhere
Chapel Lane Media has appointed Adie Pranger to
service media agencies on the title.
Metro FM’s Saturday Household host and programming
specialist, Segale Aldrin Mogotsi, will leave hosting the
show, to become the station’s programmes manager.
Mogotsi, who takes over from Leon Manne, will begin
his new role with immediate effect.
Sandton magazine has announced the appointment
of Leigh Toselli as contributing editor for its monthly
style pages. ClickLhere
here for more.
Nkosinathi “Nutsy” Ntuli, has been appointed host of
Ikwekwezi FM’s Wasala Wena Morning Drive show.
Pipe Trades Media Group has appointed Sean
Macnamara Managing Director. ClickLhere
here for more.
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Advantage Announces Consumer

Magazine Achievers

This year's AdMag Awards, held last week, saw

Vanessa Raphaely walk away with the prestigious
Editor of the Year title for Cosmopolitan magazine.
The publication also won Best International Title of
the Year.

Advantage Magazine's editor in chief, John

Farquhar, named New Media Publishing as
Publisher of the Year for its consistent excellence,
while Newcomer of the Year went to Psychologies
magazine. Woolworths Taste was named South
African Magazine of the Year.

The Best Advert in Advantage, a relatively new

award initiated by Farquhar, saw Video Lab taking
top honours.

Category winners, as appointed by John and his

judging panel, are as follows:

* Top Billing - Merit (General Interest)

* Drum - Gold (General Interest)
* NAG - Gold (Youth Culture 14 years +)
* Ideas/Idees - Merit (Crafts)
* National Geographic Kids - Gold (Children 5-13
years)
* De Kat - Gold (Lifestyle)
* Finweek - Gold (Business)
* Entrepreneur - Gold (Business)
* Sarie - Gold (Women 24-35 years)
* Move - Gold (Women 24-35 years)
* Cosmopolitan - Gold (Women 24-35 years)
* Fit Pregnancy - Gold (Parenting)
* Hip2b2 - Merit (Custom Publishing)
* Woolworths Taste - Gold (Custom Publishing)
* Habitat - Gold (Décor & Home)
* Visi - Gold (Décor & Home)
* House & Leisure - Gold (Décor & Home)
* Woman & Home - Gold (Women 35+)
* Car - Gold (Motoring)
* Africa Geographic - Gold (Environment &
Conservation)
* Heat - Merit (Celebrity)
* SA Country Life - Gold (Travel)
* Business Day Wanted - Gold (Newspaper
Format Supplements)
* Runners World - Gold (Sports)
* Golf Digest - Gold (Sports)
* Men's Health Best Life - Gold (Male)
* Popular Mechanics - Gold (Male)
* Psychologies - Gold (Inspiration / Wellness)
* Eat Out - Gold (Annuals / Bi-annuals)

The AdMag Judges

Barbara Cooke, TGI; Kim Weissensee, Applied

Media Logic; Chris Botha, The MediaShop; Luisa
Belter, Freelancer; Nazeer Suliman, Universal
McCann; Philippe Raffray, L'Oreal; Wilma de Bruin,
Beeld; Trish Guilford, The MediaShop; Melanie
Walter, Starcom; Britta Reid, MediaCompete; Jedd
Cokayne, Joe Public and John Farquhar.
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MONDI SHANDUKA NEWSPAPER AWARDS
At an awards ceremony in Johannesburg last week,
Mondi Shanduka Newsprint and the Newspaper
Association honoured the South African newspaper
journalism industry at the seventh annual Mondi
Shanduka Newspaper Awards.
“There has been outstanding journalism over the past
year,” said Professor Guy Berger, head of the Rhodes
University School of Journalism and Media Studies, and
convenor of the judging panel. “Critics should balance
their concerns with the fine achievements this
competition has highlighted, and meanwhile South
Africans in general can feel there is good cause to value
our free and vibrant newspaper journalists.”
The event was hosted by former Carte Blanche anchor
and presenter Ruda Landman, with popular comedienne
Krijay Govender providing some typically South African
comic relief.
From a record total of 575 entries across the 10
categories, the judging panel handpicked a shortlist of
some 32 finalists and 25 commended journalists. Nine
category winners have shared in R165 000 in prize
money.
Thanking the industry for its support of the awards,
Mondi Shanduka Newsprint CEO Peter Lynch said,
“Thank you to the newshounds (and their respective
owners and masters) who have so enthusiastically put
forward their work to be tugged at, pulled apart and
perhaps even chewed on in this competition.”
THE WINNERS
HARD NEWS
Winner: Nerissa Govender – The Witness: “Family’s blue
light trauma” and seven other pages.
Govender’s series of articles involved the motorcades of
Jacob Zuma and S’bu Ndebele which were accused of
violating traffic regulations and harassing motorists in
KwaZulu-Natal. In her original story and follow-ups,
Govender displayed tenacity and grittiness, staying with
the issue undaunted by hostility from people in powerful
positions. The stories had a strong feel of breaking news,
written under the pressure of deadlines.
Finalist: Lee Rondganger – The Star: “Smash, grab…
Gone”.
Commended: Riëtte Olivier – Die Burger: “Drama by
doodsbrug”.
ANALYSIS and COMMENTARY
Winner: Jorisna Bonthuys – Die Burger: “Kioto2 kry nou
stoom” and two other articles on the environment.
Bonthuys covered the build-up to the United Nations Bali
negotiations which focused on international climate
dispensation after 2012. It is a challenge for a journalist
to dig deeper into this subject than the daily coverage it
already enjoys, without boring the reader with
uninteresting statistics and worn-out quotes. Bonthuys
succeeded by using excellent local and overseas sources
to highlight how present day actions of average citizens
can have a detrimental effect on the environment, and
how the opposite can be achieved by being sensitive in
everyday choices about the use of energy.
Finalists: Nashira Davids and Buyekezwa Makwabe –
Sunday Times: “War declared on gangs” and related
stories.
Commended: Malvory Adams – Sowetan: three part
series on “Blacks know Rugby”.
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FEATURE WRITING
Winner: Shaun Smillie – The Star: “The Search for
Looksmart” and related stories.
In this hotly contested and diverse category, the articles
that stood out were those that showed great enterprise
and persistence in the gathering of the information, and
skill in telling the story.
The winning entry was “The Search for Looksmart”, a
feature that ran over four days in The Star. The writer
Shaun Smillie and photographer Neo Ntsoma spent six
months investigating the story of Looksmart Ngudle, a
young activist who had been detained and tortured, and
who then died in jail more than four decades back.
The story showed exemplary determination in piecing
together the last days of Ngudle’s life in prison, as well as
evidence of tireless work to verify individual stories; a
difficult task when the events happened so long ago.
Finalists: Lizel Steenkamp – Rapport: “Plek van die dood”.
Commended: Jillian Green – The Star: “The man who
danced with death”; Marida Fitzpatrick – Beeld: “Jan
Bom – waar swaarkry triomfeer”; Leonie S. Joubert –
Weekend Argus: “Tossed by wind, ocean and quotas”;
Waldimar Pelser – Beeld: “Rukkerige spoedballet”.
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Winner: Chandré Prince, Brett Horner, Ntando Makhubu –
Daily Dispatch: “Why Frere’s babies die”. Months of hard
work, persistence and sheer determination, even in the
face of vilification, set the leading entries apart in this
category with time and effort invested paying off in
producing agenda-setting stories. The respective
employers must be congratulated for running hard with
stories of national importance in the face of denials and
court challenges. The winners – Chandré Prince, Brett
Horner, and Ntando Makhubu – scored for their coverage in
the Daily Dispatch on babies dying at Frere Hospital. Over
nearly two months, the team comprehensively
documented and explained the deaths.
Finalists: Cobus Coetzee and Adriaan Basson – Beeld:
“Staat het geweet eNaTIS sou vou” and follow ups
Jocelyn Maker and Megan Power– Sunday Times:
“Manto’s hospital booze binge”.
Commended: Elise Tempelhoff – Beeld: “Mynmonopolie
se gru-moeras” and follow ups; Tony Carnie – The
Mercury: “Probe into metal illness factory” and follow
ups; Diane-Marié Strydom – Die Burger: “Jy moet maar
afskeid neem van jou familie…”
CREATIVE JOURNALISM
Winner: Oliver Roberts – Sunday Times Lifestyle: “Don’t
look down”.
This winning article is written in a column style and
creatively covers behaviour typically regarded as taboo -
people who saunter around in their ‘birthday suits’.
Capturing both female and male experiences, Oliver
Roberts’ narrative colourfully describes the nuances
among the naked. The story is clear, engaging and
amusing. It leads you on through the narrative, with the
author’s own presence in the occasion being cleverly used
to pull you along with empathy and a sense of exploration.
Finalists: Murray La Vita – Die Burger: “Gesondheid in die
rondheid!”
Commended: Claire Angelique Bezuidenhout – Sunday
Tribune: “It’s
n o t a l l
b l a c k …” ;
Michael Bleby
and Mariam
I s a –
Business
Day: “An
officer and a
gentleman”.
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GRAPHICAL JOURNALISM FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHS
Winner: Jonathan Shapiro – Zapiro Productions. Winner: Sandile Ndlovu – Sunday Tribune: Labour of
This category covers the very different fields of love series.
cartooning, illustration and information graphics, but The judges felt that there was sometimes a mismatch
was once again dominated by a cartoonist. The judges between the photographs taken, and how they were
tried very hard to avoid awarding first prize to Jonathan
used in a given newspaper. In addition, it was felt that
Shapiro (Zapiro), but once again failed.
the strong field of South African photographers
Zapiro’s Polokwane cartoon of Jacob Zuma eclipsing
Thabo Mbeki managed to merge the muddles of ANC
suggests that more space could be profitably set
politicking, Eskom power failures and Zuma’s infamous aside in the country’s newspapers to run their
shower into a single, pithy image. Cartooning is a field in pictures.
which years of experience count, and only the older The winner, Sandile Ndlovu, has reflected in excellent
cartoonists are able to make their work look effortless. photographic detail, a graphic and moving story
But the judges were pleased to note a rising group of around an elderly self-taught midwife. Despite
younger cartoonists who are producing ever-better difficult lighting, he succeeded in showing the pain
work, in particular Wilson Mgobhozi of City Press, whose and beauty of birth, with delicacy and care. His ability
best work shows fine draughtsmanship. to capture meaning in people’s eyes is impressive.
Finalists: Hanlie Malan – Die Burger. Commended: Anton Finalists: Masi Losi – Daily Dispatch: “You are now a
Vermeulen – Beeld; De Wet Moolman – Beeld. man, my son”.
Commended: Simphiwe Mbokazi – Business Report:
POPULAR JOURNALISM Perd van ‘n ander kleur series; Jennifer Bruce – The
Winner: None; Finalists: None Star: “Babies in a box”; Cara Viereckl – Saturday
Commended: Natascha Jacobsz – Sondag: “Zuma se
Star: Refugees; Sandile Ndlovu – Sunday Tribune:
‘kondoom’ vir goeie geluk”.
“Beach Reflected in Sunglasses”.
This was the first year that a special category was
provided for popular tabloid journalism, and entries were
disappointing. There are a great many bold, innovative PRESENTATION (LAYOUT and DESIGN)
and entertaining pages every day in the tabloid press, Winner: Arlene Prinsloo – Die Burger: Untitled cover
but they were not among the entries, which were wrap photograph of the Springbok victory and other
dominated by hard news reporting or feature writing of a pages.
kind that was not specific to popular journalism. First prize goes to Die Burger’s Arlene Prinsloo for her
“We had hoped to see examples of the best tabloid World Cup victory spread, which wrapped a single
journalism in the form of packages of creative writing, image around both front and back page. The layout is
headline writing, editing and design,” says Berger. particularly notable for the designer’s restraint: there
are no competing images, and, bolder still, no
NEWS PHOTOGRAPHS headline or caption on the one day when neither were
Winner: Alon Skuy – The Times: “Hillbrow flight”. needed. The effect is a stand-out front page that
The quality of entries was extremely high, and stronger breaks the rules, but succeeds. Finalists: Renthia
than the previous year. South Africa is a news Bornman – Rapport: series of pages.
photographer’s paradise – but it is the individual
Commended: Andries Gouws – Beeld: Series of front
photographers who rise to the occasion. And they did so
pages; Riana van der Schyff – Saturday Star: A series
in 2007.
Alon Skuy’s winning picture of a confrontation between a
of pages.
woman and a security officer bristles with emotion and
action, as evident in facial expressions and blurred
movements. He captures a moment of experience that
will dwell for a long time with the two people involved,
and likewise with the viewer of the picture. Skuy was also
commended for his sequence of images showing
protestors in pitched warfare with armed police. This is a
photographer who does not flinch, even when there is
major danger in the air. Finalists: Francois Nel – Die
Burger: “Road of Chaos”. Commended: Alon Skuy – The
Times: “Line of fire: riots Soweto”; Stephen Lawrence –
The Star: “A worrying time”; Shayne Robinson – The
Star: “Out of the frying pan” and “Cash heist drama”;
Boxer Nqobizwe Ngwenya – The Star: “UJ Riots”;
Mujahid Safodien – The Star: “Smash and Grab”; Wessel
Oosthuizen – The Citizen: “Picture of Schalk Burger, CJ
van der Linde and Bakkies Botha combine efforts against
Simon Shaw”.

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Jeremy Gordin named Newspaper Journalist of
the Year
Veteran journalist Jeremy Gordin of the Sunday
Independent has clinched the South African
Newspaper Journalist of the Year at the seventh
annual Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards held in
Johannesburg on (9 April, 2008).
This premier award recognises outstanding
performance by a newspaper journalist over the
previous year for work that demonstrates exceptional
endeavour and world-class quality.
The pieces which reflected the criteria for the award
included ‘Our floating opera’; ‘Media blind spot lets
Zuma win surprise lead’; ‘The people have taken back
the party’; and ‘From psycho biography to Mbeki’s
balls’.
South African Story of the Year
A team of Mail & Guardian journalists have been
lauded at the seventh annual Mondi Shanduka
Newspaper Awards in the South African Story of the
Year category.
Stefaans Brümmer, Sam Sole, Adriaan Basson,
Zukile Majova, Nic Dawes, Pearlie Joubert and
Matuma Letsoalo from Mail & Guardian submitted 32
pages of entries on Pikoli and Selebi winning
themselves the accolade of South African Story of the
Year, sharing in R15 000 of prize money and coveted
Mondi Shanduka Golden Nibs.
This category seeks to honour agenda-setting and
original journalism which contributes to society by
giving new insight into the changing character of
South Africa.
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2007 Lifetime Achiever Award
Mathatha Tsedu, editor-in-chief of City Press, is the
2007 Lifetime Achiever of the Mondi Shanduka
Newspaper Awards, announced at the annual event
held in Johannesburg on 9 April.
The judges said that Tsedu had risen through the
ranks not just to his present position, but to the
stature of a leader in the media more broadly – not
just in South Africa, but also across the continent.
This is in part because he has never hesitated to
express strongly independent views, and been an
unstinting critic of racism. It is not surprising that
because of this, the man was badly harassed under
apartheid, and has also fallen foul of one employer, as
well as several politicians.
See you next week.
DANIEL
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