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  • Media24 shines at Sanlam journo awards

    Media24 business and finance journalists scooped some of the major awards at last night’s Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism.

    The award-giving ceremony, which has been running since 1974, aims to acknowledge the role of financial journalism in society and also promote the high standards expected of financial journalists.

  • Media24 Mondi winners

    Media24 Newspapers’ titles and journalists scooped awards in several categories at last night’s Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards which were held at Turbine Hall in Johannesburg.

    Our newspapers took top honours at the Newspaper Association of South Africa’s annual Frewin and McCall Awards which recognizes newspaper excellence in advertising, printing and distribution, printing and production, layout and typography as well as the balance between the use of pictures and graphics.

    Andriette Stofberg, Beeld’s former deputy editor who passed away in March after a brief illness, received a special posthumous award for an extraordinary contribution to newspaper journalism.

  • Media24 Academy to host Tabloid Journalism Conference

    The buying public has voted with their purses, making tabloid newspapers a major source of news for millions of South Africans. In a time of falling circulations for print media generally, tabloids have defied gravity with their brand of journalism focusing in the main on gossip, scandal, sex, sports, entertainment and sensation.

    On May 13 2011, the Media24 Journalism Academy is bringing experts, tabloid editors and top speakers for a conference titled “Mainstreaming Tabloids”.

  • Francois Groepe resigns as Media24 CEO

    Francois Groepe, Media24 chief executive officer, offers to buy out Via Afrika Publishing Group

    Media24’s board of directors announced that Francois Groepe, currently chief executive officer of the Media24 group, made an offer to lead a buy-out of the school book publishers, Via Afrika Education.

    Francois said: "after nearly eight happy and successful years in various senior management roles in Media24, the last three years as chief executive officer, I am excited to embark on this new challenge with the Via Afrika Education management team with whom I worked especially closely over the past year. Having come to the conclusion that to be successful Via Afrika Education is best positioned as a standalone business, I have decided to embark on a journey towards becoming a social entrepreneur. There is no more important contribution we could make to the future than innovation for success in education. I am privileged to work with a proven team in the only 100% South African educational publisher."

  • Mondi finalists reflect raised standard

    Finalists in the 10th Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards reflect raised standard in South African journalism

    This year not only sees the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards celebrate its 10th anniversary; it has also posted a new record with an impressive 760 entries.

    The shortlisted entries for the annual newspaper journalism competition have been announced by the Newspaper Association of South Africa and Mondi Shanduka Newsprint following an intense judging session convened by Professor Guy Berger of Rhodes University.

    This year’s contest shows that increasing numbers of South African journalists are taking serious pride in their work, with a record 760 entries compared to last year’s total of 601 submissions. The entries represent 37 newspapers from across all nine provinces and include the community press.

  • Naspers benefits from strong growth

    South Africa, 30 November 2010

    Naspers Limited (JSE: NPN) today announced results for the six months ended 30 September 2010.

    NASPERS BENEFITS FROM STRONG GROWTH AND SCALE
    Naspers today reported an 18% increase in revenue to R15,8 billion for the six months ended 30 September 2010. Core headline earnings, which is considered by the board as a good indication of sustainable performance, were up 33% to R3,2 billion. This translates to R8,60 per share.

    The consolidated trading profit grew by 23% to R3,3 billion, mainly due to scale benefits. Naspers’s share of income from associates, which includes Tencent in China, Mail.ru in Russia and Abril in Brazil, reached R1,4 billion.

  • Media24 Pica winners

     

    Media24 journalists, editors and publications were winners and nominees in several categories at the MPASA Pica Awards for magazines, which was held at the Zip Zap Circus venue in Cape Town on 11 November.

     

    Jane Raphaelly Editor of the Year

    Michélle van Breda (SARIE) 

    Business to Business Editor of the Year
    Nominee: Louise Marsland (Advantage) 

    Magazine of the Year
    Rossi Trophy: Consumer Magazine of the Year
    Winner: SARIE
    Nominee: Visi

  • Welkom Yizani AGM

    22 September 2010

    The curbing of media freedom must be avoided at all costs. The proposed Protection of Information Bill and proposed media appeals tribunal will result in more corruption and secrecy, the cost of which will be borne and felt by ordinary citizens. It is important to speak out against these proposed curbs on media freedom.

    This was the key message to shareholders by Professor Jakes Gerwel during his chairman’s address at the annual general meetings of Media24 Holdings and Welkom Yizani, held in Cape Town earlier today.

    Gerwel noted that while the print media industry is facing economic challenges, there are also political developments posing threats to the democratic environment in which a free press operates and flourishes.

  • Naspers chairman awards top prizes

    Today Mr Ton Vosloo, chairman of Naspers, presented the group’s top prizes at a luncheon held after the company’s annual general meeting. 

    This year the Phil Weber Prize for excellence throughout a career within the group went to Clarissa Mack, MIH group executive for regulatory and policy affairs. Also to Charles Searle, head of investment for the Naspers MIH Internet Group. This is the highest accolade bestowed for performance in the group. 

    As group executive for regulatory and policy affairs at MIH (pay television and internet), Clarissa displayed exceptional leadership qualities in establishing a strong and successful regulatory team. She navigates through the choppy waters of the regulatory environment.

  • Results of Naspers Annual General Meeting

    Cape Town, 27 August 2010 – Naspers Limited (“Naspers”) (JSE: NPN, LSE: NPSN), the 96th annual general meeting (AGM) of Naspers Limited was held this morning, under the chairmanship of Mr Ton Vosloo, in the Naspers Centre at 40 Heerengracht, Cape Town, South Africa.

    Shareholders approved all the ordinary and special resolutions with the required majority.  A dividend of 235c per Naspers N- ordinary and 47c per Naspers A- ordinary share were approved. PricewaterhouseCoopers was appointed as external auditors, with Mr A Wentzel as the individual who will undertake the audit.

    The appointment of Prof Debra Meyer, who was appointed as a director with effect from 25 November 2009, was confirmed.  Messrs Ton Vosloo, Neil van Heerden, Lourens Jonker and Prof Hein Willemse, who retired by rotation, were re-elected to the board.

    Mr Vosloo reported in his AGM address that Naspers’s revenues grew 5% to R28 billion in the midst of the global economic downturn. The group continued to expand. He indicated that emerging markets are central to Naspers’s strategy and that most of those survived the global economic downturn reasonably well.