Hoosen Kolia, the Sunday Times MD, and I came up with a clever campaign for marketing our new TimesCode product, supporting local artists, and getting behind the Springboks ahead of their crucial semi-final match against Argentina in the Rugby World Cup this Sunday, all in the press of a button. The idea is simple. We [...]

The recent multimedia story entitled “I should not be alive” produced by The Times photographer Alon Skuy and deputy-multimedia editor Gregor Rohrig, is one of the best packages we have done so far, in my humble opinion, and is a sign of a maturing multimedia team. The story is about a South African who joined [...]

Earlier today, Adii posted the email interview he did with Gregor and I regarding the launch and strategy behind The Times. This is the first interview we’ve done since the launch and I think Adii’s questions were very well constructed. Hopefully our responses will help shed some more light on the new publication, and what [...]

Gregor and I should’ve been on our way to Dubrovnic, Croatia right now to attend the 2007 iCommons iSummit taking place from 15-17 June. The iSummit unfortunately clashed with The Times launch so we had to make a sad cancellation with aspirations of making it next year instead. I thoroughly enjoyed last year’s iSummit which [...]