A New Chapter for OPPO in South Africa OPPO South Africa has appointed Jace Chen as its new Chief Executive Officer, signalling a shift…
Why can’t we all just get along?
The media world is undergoing profound change. We know the great catalyst for these changes has been the onward march of the digital age and the arrival of the internet.
This changing mediascape is often incorrectly portrayed as a battlefield, with two main skirmishes on the go. In the first “battle”, the soldiers have grown weary or just rather bored. This battle involves traditional media (newspapers, radio, TV) versus online media. The second “battle” is a much more interesting to look at. This skirmish involves mainstream media (which in this instance includes online publishers as they mostly practise traditional journalism) versus citizen media, which includes bloggers, vloggers and podcasters….
Technology shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite?
Saw Mike Stoporth’s article on Bizcom in which he had this quote from Rupert Murdoch, talking about the internet: “To find something comparable, you…
The People Formerly Known as the Audience
Read this good summary by Jay Rosen on his Press Think blog about how the media is changing and how patterns of media consumption…
Changing media's battlefield
Ok play is over. Need to do some business here. Conference is tomorrow where I’ll be chatting about online journalism vs traditional journalism. This…
