Ray Hartley

Fresh questions have arisen over the regulation and reliability of content on social networks after one of South Africa’s leading newspapers faced embarrassment as it emerged that its dramatic weekend lead story, based on a graphically-racist Facebook profile photo, was in fact a three-year old story -- and had been ...

It's been a cool year for the Web in South Africa.Year of the blog? We saw the arrival of two blog aggregators Afrigator and amatomu.com, and there was talk of a third. The former was recognised by CNN as a major web startup outside the US and also received mentions on ...

Chaos broke out on the South African blogosphere recently, and it was all caused by a journalist.Columnist David Bullard devoted not one, but two Sunday Times columns to hurling insults at bloggers, calling them “scrofulous nerds”, “narcissists”, and “wackos” whose blog sites are the “air guitars” of journalism. The affair ...

I've never liked the word convergence. Integration is much better. Some great speakers spoke on this topic from the New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax) and The Telegraph (UK). This is about the PRODUCTION of news. And why are media companies restructuring the production of news? Well it's really ...

Duncan McLeod has written an article, entitled "Rise of the bloggers", on his new blog FM Tech -- where he looks at local blog aggregators Amatomu and Afrigator. He also refers to Ray Hartley's new insider blog on the new daily newspaper that Johncom is about to launch. I first ...

I've been pretty impressed by the way South African media professionals have embraced blogging in recent times. There is of course all this claptrap of big media vs the blogosphere, which I've always thought was nonsense. My two cents? Blogging is many things: in its most simple guise it's just ...

Ray Hartley -- the editor of the highly-anticipated new Sunday Times daily The Times -- has started a new blog that is tracking the newspaper's progress. On the blog he reveals pictures of the new title including the masthead, basic layout and discussion around some of the newspaper's plans. ...