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2016

Journalism

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Feminist Approaches And The South African News Media, Denise Buiten Apr 2016

Feminist Approaches And The South African News Media, Denise Buiten

Denise Buiten

Despite apparent feminist advancements within contemporary South Africa, gender transformation in the South African media industry has been both limited and irregular in terms of the ways in which newsroom cultures are being transformed, and the ways in which this impacts on the production of gendered media texts. Based on interviews with journalists and editors from three weekly South African newspapers, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Sun and the Mail & Guardian, this article explores the ways in which journalists articulate their understandings of gender and gender transformation within the media, and reflects on the ways in which these articulations …

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The-State-Of-Advertising-And-Mass-Media-Where-Are-We-Headed-2165-7912-S2-003.Pdf, Elizabeth Thomas Feb 2016

The-State-Of-Advertising-And-Mass-Media-Where-Are-We-Headed-2165-7912-S2-003.Pdf, Elizabeth Thomas

Elizabeth Thomas

In early October 2016, the editor-in-chief of The Wall Street
Journal sent a memo to employees that said, in part, “every story
should be as short as it needs to be”. The following week Dow Jones,
which owns The Journal, announced an impending newsroom review
that would contain “cost-management initiatives”. On October 21,
2016, the Journal employees received another memo stating that it
was looking for a “substantial” number of staffers to take buyouts,
intimating that layoffs would follow. That’s a tough blow for a scion of
American journalism since 1889. With print advertising dropping at an
alarming rate, we …

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