F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
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…
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…
Rupert Murdoch, News of The World, and the SoDOMM effect of social media
The sudden demise of The News of the World newspaper was both shocking and exhilarating: That a 168-year old Sunday paper with more than…
