Daily Maverick calls for new legislation to keep media industry afloat

Estimates show internet giants have taken more than 60% of local advertising revenue

WATCH: What must new communications minister prioritise?

Business Day TV spoke to Business Day business writer Mudiwa Gavaza

Retrenchments at Media24 not a result of AI, says Goldstuck

Media24 CEO Ishmet Davidson confirmed recently that the media group could retrench about 410 employees

Media24 ‘has not made decision’ on closure of iconic newspapers

Talks with staff, says CEO Ishmet Davidson, after report that City Press and Beeld will shut

Proposed SABC commercial unit to be exempt from PFMA provisions

SABC Bill, which also seeks to replace licence fees with a household levy, will enable public broadcaster to better compete with digital platforms, deputy ...

Financial Mail’s Ann Crotty nominated for Sikuvile Awards

The awards see the best of the best across various journalistic platforms being benchmarked against their peers

Independent Media announces voluntary severance packages

Company says move is aimed at mitigating future job losses after merger of some titles

WATCH: Ramaphosa finally appoints SABC board

Business Day TV spoke to Sunday Times digital editor Makhudu Sefara

Original SABC board list stands as lawyers label Ramaphosa’s instruction ‘unlawful’

The letter in which President Cyril Ramaphosa instructed Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula to send the matter back to the portfolio committee had no basis in law

Press Council commends media for defending SA’s press freedom

The body says members ‘extended democracy and ensured an open society by robustly exposing corruption and malfeasance’

SABC promises Scopa it will not need another bailout

Meanwhile, Scopa members criticised minister of communications Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, who is abroad, for failing to prioritise Scopa meetings

SABC confident job cuts can withstand legal scrutiny amid blackout threats

Labour court has confirmed public broadcaster has properly conducted itself in the process, spokesperson says

ENCA fires Kanthan Pillay over ‘rat’ tweet

Pillay tweeted this week that a reporter who had resigned was a ‘rat’ jumping to a sinking ship

‘I'm not an angel,’ says Hlaudi Motsoeneng as he concedes to ‘many mistakes’ at the SABC

The SABC is technically insolvent and has asked for a R3.2bn government guarantee, but the former COO insists he left its finances in good way

Hlaudi Motsoeneng says he was ‘the main man’ at the SABC

‘In the SABC no one was better than me … It's an insult to say I'm not educated,’ the axed SABC COO said

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