THE PAST weeks have seen a tit-for-tat 'media war' between local publishers INM and Tiso-Blackstar.  Online periodicals and journos are all weighing in. What started out as a sequel to the recent Sunday Times debacle — an opinion piece published by Independent Media, written by one Iqbal Survé —...

The man who stiffed journalists of payments and who controlled the Independent Group with an iron fist is no longer a media baron. The much-reduced Irish-owned Independent Group has been sent packing back to Ireland, thanks to a deal which saw the group's South African assets bought out by local...

A journalist complains about your newspapers overly vigorous support of the War. What is the correct response? a) Promise to crush and slaughter all resistance from the lower echelons until the seventh generation. b) Harangue said journalist for not reading up on the business tactics of Atilla th...

News that INM are considering selling off their loss-making South African newspaper division should come as no surprise. The heavily indebted company whose majority shareholder is the Bank of Ireland has been plagued by a number of scandals. The latest involving allegations of complicity in a cor...

One can only wonder if the threatened closure of the London Independent newspapers, is a ruse to deflect attention away from a scandal involving non-executive director Brian Mulroney? Readers will remember that Independent, which publishes South Africa's Star and Cape Argus, is in the process of...