Profiles

Profiles on South Africa’s big media newsmakers

Read profiles on the newsmakers in the South African media industry.

06 August 2010
Toby David Shapshak is many things: techno junky, journalist and editor – mostly he’s just a really talented writer who knows stuff as Peta Krost Maunder discovered Read more »
05 July 2010
It is surreal doing a telephone interview with the person whose voice accompanies me and thousands of others on our drive to work. More used to hearing Darren Scott engage in on-air prank phone calls and morning chatter on Jacaranda 94.2, I had the opportunity to chat to him about his experiences as a radio DJ, the MTN Radio awards – and a few other things in between Read more »
21 June 2010
Gary Stroebel is on a mission to convince advertisers and their agents that OFM offers a viable audience and should be included in national campaigns. It’s not his only mission though, as Sandra Gordon discovered Read more »
18 June 2010
Sowetan news editor Willie Bokala at Soccer City, Friday 11 June 2010 Read more »
17 June 2010
Just because we got annihilated by Uruguay last night does not mean it's time hang up your vuvuzelas. Send us your portraits of national pride and we'll keep posting them on the home page – until the bitter end... Read more »
03 June 2010
The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) is Norman Gibson’s tour de force; but he hasn’t stopped there. He spoke to TheMediaOnline about achievements present and future Read more »
26 May 2010
Libby Lloyd is a committed journalist who has, more than most, given back to the profession. She is also refreshingly upbeat, as Sandra Gordon discovered Read more »
21 May 2010
For those who missed the announcement (and there appear to be many), please join us in welcoming Peta Krost Maunder to the Wag the Dog Publishing fold Read more »
17 May 2010
“You're not writing about Dan Retief?' said a colleague. “Cool!” And cool he is – perhaps even more so now that he's doing his own thing... Read more »
13 May 2010
Marcia Klein, newly appointed 'Business Times' editor, answers questions on financial journalism, editing and the future of newspapers Read more »
06 April 2010
As you sow so shall you reap, is Paul Middleton’s mantra. And after a whirlwind one-way conversation, Sandra Gordon discovers a man who practises what he preaches. Read more »
08 March 2010
Is Barry Sayer a man with a plan or just happy to be back home? Sandra Gordon investigates and finds a bit of both. Read more »
01 February 2010
When Linda Gibson joined Ads24 18 months ago her strategy appeared simple enough: revitalise the sales and marketing of Media24’s newspaper titles. Sandra Gordon discusses the challenges Gibson has faced and finds a CEO who is upbeat about the medium. Read more »
03 November 2009
You only have until 13 November to comment on and contribute towards the The Media Owner Partnership Charter. One read through will tell you just how relevant this document is, both to media owners and media agencies. (How streamlined business would be if everyone adhered to it!) Read more »
02 November 2009
Alec Hogg's moving tribute from last Tuesday's memorial service of SA's leading financial editor Read more »
01 November 2009
Florence Modikwe interviews Beverly Maphangwa, the brains behind the “Discovery Sports Centre”. Read more »
30 July 2009
Debora Patta – Winner of the Vodacom Women in the Media Awards 2009 Group editor-in-chief, eNews. Read more »
01 April 2009
Tsepiso Makwetla presents two key actuality programmes on SABC radio and television. Liesl Pretorius quizzed her about the journey to Auckland Park and beyond. Read more »
01 March 2009
At 50, Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) is battling the line between hope and disillusionment, he told Liesl Pretorius. Read more »
01 January 2009
At 23, Marvin Kgasoane has achieved the impossible. And there’s more where that came from, this media manager tells Nazley Omar. Read more »
01 January 2009
For almost a decade Charlene and Eddie Stanley have been the face of eNews in central South Africa. Willemien Marais discovers what drives the team that made a clean sweep of the television awards in the 2008 Vodacom Journalist of the Year competition. Read more »
01 November 2008
The Sunday Times has been in the news for the wrong reasons lately. The paper’s editor, Mondli Makhanya, talks to Liesl Pretorius about a “hard year”. Read more »
01 October 2008
“Carte Blanche” is celebrating 20 years on air. George Mazarakis, the investigative journalism programme’s longest-serving executive producer, talks to Liesl Pretorius about a lifetime in television. Read more »
01 September 2008
At 57, the recipient of the 2008 Nat Nakasa Award for courageous journalism, is “healthy as a pig” and looking forward to 30 more years of active journalism. Twenty years after launching the alternative Afrikaans newspaper, Vrye Weekblad, and 10 years since the launch of “Special Assignment”, Max du Preez talks to Liesl Pretorius about life in the front-row seat. Read more »
27 August 2008
Pheladi Gwangwa, station manager of Talk Radio 702, is the overall winner in the Vodacom Women in The Media Awards 2008. She tells Liesl Pretorius about the day she ran from an “alien”, and the business of running a station. Read more »
23 July 2008
To the Raphaelys and the Ramsays “content is king” is more than a catchphrase. Nazley Omar talks to two South African media families with staying power. Read more »
18 July 2008
Debora Patta has come a long way since she monitored the wires from 12pm to 4am at Radio 702. She talks to Liesl Pretorius about the thrill of launching a 24-hour TV news channel 18 years on. Read more »
01 July 2008
Vusi Mona is back. Read more »
23 June 2008
Riaan Cruywagen is as much part of the Afrikaans culture as melktert and koeksisters. Sarietha Engelbrecht interviewed the Afrikaans news bulletin’s poster boy. Read more »
23 June 2008
Three former journalists talk to Kalay Vani-Nair about the challenges of leaving the profession for public relations and the challenges they have found on the ‘other’ side. Read more »
18 January 2008
These days Solly Mokoetle (51), chief content officer of Telkom Media, does "everything short of selling decoders". He talked to TheMediaOnline about his not-so-amicable departure from the SABC and life in the bundle war. Read more »
10 January 2008
The newly-elected ANC President, Jacob Zuma, has mastered the skill of exploiting negative media coverage. His high profile is partly the result of intense media coverage, fuelling the public's perception of him as an underdog. Did the media underestimate its own power? Read more »
01 December 2007
The Oxford dictionary defines influence as a “moral power” or “an effect a person has on another”. That includes those with good or bad influences. Here's The Media's list of the most influential people in media. Read more »
01 December 2007
Kagiso Media CEO Murphy Morobe has a long history with the media industry. A year ago he switched sides – and moved from a government spin doctor to head of a lucrative media entity. Matebello Motloung speaks to him. Read more »
01 November 2007
Ferial Haffajee lists the “junior” most influential people in the media. Read more »
 
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