Archive for the 'WAN' Category

If there is one issue that has been in the spotlight for the past weeks and months, if not years, it’s the debacle at the SABC. We’ve had the Full Monty, from trips overseas to board meetings in luxury hotels to board members resigning in droves to a leader who apparently ‘sucks’ as a leader [...]

Well, one could be forgiven for thinking that the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) conference last week, including the World Editors Forum (WEF), was actually a conference about online media, because the lines are so blurred now between the different news mediums, we’ve all become purveyors of news using any medium at our disposal… be [...]

Well, WAN and WEF have come and gone and we’re all feeling a little wan ourselves. We hope you dear reader enjoyed our news blog and video. We certainly learnt a lot from the experience, rookies as we are still, and a HUGE thanks to the Zoopy team who ‘zouped’ up our news coverage at [...]

Augustus Fallah, Liberian journalist and chairperson of the Editors’ Association of Liberia, summarises this week’s events from his point of view.

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Bachi Karkaria, consulting editor of The Times of India and WEF board member, shares her thoughts and experiences from this year’s WAN/WEF congress.
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South Africa’s Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, joined WAN delegates for lunch. Ebrahim Rasool joined us all as well.

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This cartoon is on Jacob Zuma, join the dots.

This one is on Jacob Zuma, the spin doctor:

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