Media start-up explain.co.za takes home international award

Media start-up explain.co.za takes home international award

Media start-up explain.co.za has won a major international award, recognising the publication’s commitment to making news accessible to all. It’s flagship project, The Weekly Wrap, won in this year’s Digital Media Africa Award, run by the World Association of...
New blood at M&G, SAMIP orgs join global j-school cohort

New blood at M&G, SAMIP orgs join global j-school cohort

Here are the latest updates from in and around the SAMIP family M&G names Ron Derby as new editor-in-chief The Mail & Guardian has appointed veteran business reporter Ron Derby as its next editor-in-chief, starting in May. Former broadcaster Redi Tlhabi was...

July sees new entrants & progress for SAMIP

As 2020 progresses and we enter the second half of the year we look back at the month that was and the goings on at the South Africa Media Innovation Program (SAMIP). Towards the end of the first quarter of the year we switched over to remote work and despite being...