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Is there load shedding on Christmas and New Year’s day?

If you’re asking if there will be load shedding on Christmas and New Year’s day, the answer is most likely. Eskom in its 52-week…

Here’s one hacked Facebook account, three signs your account is hacked

Losing access to your social media account has to be one of the most frustrating outcomes to date, especially with all the memories backed…

Bad to worse: Stage 5 load shedding on Monday

Eskom will implement stage 5 load shedding on Monday in a bid to keep the lights on and the country from national power crises….

Three things going ahead despite Sandton terror threat

The American Embassy warned that the richest square mile, Sandton may be the target of an attack this weekend. The notice from the embassy…

Here’s why Eskom pushed load shedding to Stage 4

Eskom has resorted to implementing Stage 4 load shedding on Tuesday morning. Stage 4 will continue to be implemented until midnight. Stage 2 will…

Load shedding back at 4pm | here’s how many hours power will be gone for

Power utility Eskom has confirmed it will implement load shedding from 4pm on Monday afternoon. In an attempt to replenish emergency generation reserves during…

Eskom suspends load shedding

Loadshedding will be suspended at 5 am on Saturday morning amid buckling generation capacity Eskom has said. Eskom said load shedding will be suspended…

Bezos’ biggest coup? He now owns the newspaper of a superpower’s capital

In his letter to employees from their new boss, Jeff Bezos, the founder of ecommerce giant Amazon, promises to keep the paper focused on…

Read Jeff Bezos’ letter to his new Washington Post employees

It’s understandable that news of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post has been dominating the tech press today. After all, he’s a digital…

Hacktivists ‘Anonymous Africa’ attack South African news site IOL

Independent Newspapers has confirmed that its subsidiary IOL suffered a denial-of-service (DDos) attack yesterday, rendering the popular news website unavailable for hours. Behind the…

Digital disruption at Financial Times: who’s funding serious journalism?

The Financial Times said it would try to eliminate 35 editorial jobs through voluntary means and add 10 jobs as part of its focus…

Why taxing Google News is a terrible idea for newspapers

In 2009, Rupert Murdoch famously called Google News and other news search engines, “content kleptomaniacs”, before denying them access to his publications the next…

Newsweeklies: the product is right, the medium is wrong

It’s not been a pretty picture for print for a while now. The latest blow came on Wednesday when Newsweek announced it was to…

Business Day goes ‘digital first’, erects paywall

Business Day, a leading South African newspaper, is set to make the leap from “paper first” to “digital first” before eventually erecting a paywall…

Why every business should become a digital media producer

The Guardian newspaper’s plans to offer courses in digital media production is an important development and one that should be followed by newspapers around…

Could a free Kindle be the final death knell for print newspapers?

It’s easy to imagine that some day, in the not too distant future, paper distribution of news will become obsolete. It seems that in…

The continuing rise of activist media and the demise of the Fourth Estate

In a recent article, I pointed out that activist media, such as the posts, tweets, photos, and videos produced by the Occupy Wall Street…

‘The blog is dead, long live the blog’ — Chris Anderson on the future of media

We may need new words for journalists, editors and the “news”, because their definitions are constraining and changing. Maybe the editors of the future…

Online advertising spend to shoot past newspapers in US

Online advertising spending in the United States will overtake spending on newspaper ads this year for the first time, digital research firm eMarketer said…

Major US title dumps print, goes online only

US News & World Report, which dropped its weekly format two years ago and went monthly, is now abandoning print entirely for the Web….

US newspaper circulation drops five percent, except WSJ

Average daily US newspaper circulation fell 4.99 percent during the six months ending on September 30 compared with the same period a year ago,…

Who is the most powerful editor in the world?

Mediaite.com is an online and print analysis site which is exhaustively documenting the relative influence and power of the top-ranking editors in the world….

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