Archive for the 'Media24' Category

Just in from Media24 and UpperCase Media is the news that Zoo Weekly/Weekliks is being shut down “[d]ue to a variety of difficult economic conditions”.

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The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) this afternoon, Friday, 8 February 2008, released three statements concerning audits on titles by Media24, New Media Publishing and 8 Ink Media, and has lifted the suspension on the Media24 titles involved in last year’s circulation scandal. Read more on Bizcommunity.
Update 6.32pm: Media24 and Finweek have responded with statements:

Finweek [...]

Bizcommunity.com has been informed that following today’s ABC board meeting on the results of the Media24 audit, the ABC board will send out a press release tomorrow and Media24 either today or tomorrow.

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Media24: Hein Brand interview
Hein Brand, Group MD of Media24, goes into a bit more depth on how this has affected him, his team, the company and the magazine titles themselves.
Media24: Steven Powell interview

Steven Powell, head of ENS Forensics (the firm that conducted the forensic audit into Media24’s magazine titles), gives us a bit more info.
Media24: [...]

Please click through to view the videos on Bizcommunity.com’s Zoopy profile.
Media24 Magazine Audit - Hein Brand

Group MD of Media24, Hein Brand, addresses stakeholders in Cape Town about circulation irregularities and the steps being taken to address them.
Media24 Audit - Action & Principles

Group MD of Media24, Hein Brand, elaborates on Media24 action steps after discovering [...]

A quick scan of the comments that are appearing under our various Bizcommunity.com articles covering the Media24 scandal shows that people are still calling for the head of Patricia Scholtemeyer, CEO of Media24 Magazines, even likening her to Manto and Selebi in that she hasn’t resigned.
Another major point that is gaining momentum concerns the “hypocrisy [...]

The five Touchline mags affected by the circulation irregularities have also been withdrawn from the Pica Awards this year.

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