Vincent and I had a bit of a laugh today when I opened up the International version of OhMyNews and clicked through to the Citizen Reporter Resources feature. To our amazement the NML is featured in the article, although we didn’t know anything about it and weren’t contacted by the author. What follows is even [...]

Michael Kinsley has written a very interesting opinion piece entitled Do Newspapers Have a Future? which is a very frank and authoritative smack-down from someone that comes from an ‘old media’ background. Not to completely spoil the read I’ll just quote the last paragraph: Newspapers on paper are on the way out. Whether newspaper companies [...]

Last night was a cause for celebration at the 10th annual SABC/Highway Africa Innovative Use of New Media Awards (broadcast live on satellite) where two of our 4th-year new media students, Gregor Rohrig and Carly Ritz won an award in the Non-Profit category for their excellent local journalism portal Jo’s Toolkit. I have spoken about [...]

Two 4th year new media students (Gregor Rohrig and Carly Ritz) recently set up a fantastic new South African journalism resource called Jo’s Toolkit (play on Journalist’s Toolkit). As Gregor explains: Jo’s Toolkit is a journalism resource. We have especially targeted the student and grassroot media as potential users for this site. It allows anyone [...]

Earlier today the multimedia feature stories that our students produced for the Sunday Times online went live. The theme for this project, which we dubbed hola2010, was based on the upcoming Fifa World Cup which is scheduled to take place in South Africa in 2010. I think the students have done a phenomenal job and [...]