the Citizen

Some media companies have embraced the online era and are now reaping the rewards. Others have been slow to wake up to the promise of online publishing. Here are four media companies, where we may see greater things:Avusa (formerly Johncom): It’s probably wrong to call this media company a sleeping ...

From: "European papers optimistic on future -- with web's help" (Sent to me by M&G Online editor, Riaan Wolmarans.)...but European editors interviewed by the Associated Press appear strikingly optimistic about the future. They see the online media explosion more as an opportunity than as a threat, and express confidence they ...

Now South Africa has its own citizen journalism website in Johnnic’s commendable reporter.co.zaThe relentless pace of technology is turning everyone into citizen reporters. Anyone with a cellphone camera is a potential citizen photographer. Anyone with a blog is a potential citizen reporter or columnist.   Citizen journalists both collaborate and compete with ...

What is your opinion on the general attitude of the newspaper industry towards the merging of online and print?I think there are sceptics and believers. There will be a measure of merging, but I believe that online and print will also continue to co-exist as distinct products, offering similar or ...

Read this good summary by Jay Rosen on his Press Think blog about how the media is changing and how patterns of media consumption is changing.I think however the article is too quick to condemn big media. This is not about the death of "big" media or changing "big" media, ...

Did this interview with Herman Manson of Media Toolbox a popular media newsletter.Do you think participatory journalism will grow beyond community newspapers (for which it does seem perfect) to national news organisations locally? Internationally the BBC recently announced a move to integrate more citizen generated content into its ...

When Gutenberg invented the printing press, he freed the publishers. But when the World Wide Web was pioneered by Tim Berners-Lee, it was said that the readers were now freed. The age of the internet has given unprecedented power to the reader by creating one of the most democratic and ...

Now South Africa has its own citizen journalism offering via Johnnic’s commendable reporter.co.zaOne of the first images of the Asian Tsunami crisis came from a Nordic tourist stuck on a rooftop in Phuket who MMSed it to a major news website, where it was immediately published. During the London ...

Everyone’s heard of Joe Bloggs. A few have heard about Salam Pax. So what do the two have in common?They are both ordinary people, the grassroots, the citizenry. Joe Bloggs refers to the fictional everyday man and Salam Pax is a real, everyday Iraqi that captured the imagination of the ...

Websites are often singled out as one of the main culprits for falling print circulations. Simply put, the argument is why would readers bother to buy a newspaper if they can get the same publication for free over the net?It’s not a new debate, but yet it persists. It’s the ...