Category: Media & Entertainment

  • SABC Bill suffers backlash

    There are strong objections to South Africa’s proposed SABC Bill for the nation’s public broadcaster and it must be withdrawn, report local media organisations. Three influential organisations have criticised the new Bill. SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) collectively made a submission to the…

  • Movistar Plus+ acquires LIV Golf League rights

    Movistar Plus+ has announced an agreement with LIV Golf League to exclusively broadcast the tournament in Spain.This recently created tournament (2022) is a professional golf tour whose name (LIV) refers to the total number of holes to be played in each event (54 in Roman numerals, corresponding to 3 rounds of 18 holes). The competition…

  • I criticised Rwanda, now I wake up screaming after sustained online attacks | Michela Wrong

    Sockpuppet accounts launched a smear campaign after a book about Paul Kagame’s extraterritorial assassination campaign Paul Kagame understands the value of the visual image. He loves being snapped glad-handing a dignitary at the World Economic Forum in Davos – this month, it was Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. That’s only bettered by posing back home for…

  • I criticised Rwanda, now I wake up screaming after sustained online attacks | Michela Wrong

    Sockpuppet accounts launched a smear campaign after a book about Paul Kagame’s extraterritorial assassination campaign Paul Kagame understands the value of the visual image. He loves being snapped glad-handing a dignitary at the World Economic Forum in Davos – this month, it was Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. That’s only bettered by posing back home for…

  • I criticised Rwanda, now I wake up screaming after sustained online attacks | Michela Wrong

    Sockpuppet accounts launched a smear campaign after a book about Paul Kagame’s extraterritorial assassination campaign Paul Kagame understands the value of the visual image. He loves being snapped glad-handing a dignitary at the World Economic Forum in Davos – this month, it was Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. That’s only bettered by posing back home for…

  • I criticised Rwanda, now I wake up screaming after sustained online attacks | Michela Wrong

    Sockpuppet accounts launched a smear campaign after a book about Paul Kagame’s extraterritorial assassination campaign Paul Kagame understands the value of the visual image. He loves being snapped glad-handing a dignitary at the World Economic Forum in Davos – this month, it was Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. That’s only bettered by posing back home for…

  • I criticised Rwanda, now I wake up screaming after sustained online attacks | Michela Wrong

    Sockpuppet accounts launched a smear campaign after a book about Paul Kagame’s extraterritorial assassination campaign Paul Kagame understands the value of the visual image. He loves being snapped glad-handing a dignitary at the World Economic Forum in Davos – this month, it was Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. That’s only bettered by posing back home for…

  • I criticised Rwanda, now I wake up screaming after sustained online attacks | Michela Wrong

    Sockpuppet accounts launched a smear campaign after a book about Paul Kagame’s extraterritorial assassination campaign Paul Kagame understands the value of the visual image. He loves being snapped glad-handing a dignitary at the World Economic Forum in Davos – this month, it was Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. That’s only bettered by posing back home for…

  • How podcast networks are testing AI tools for faster translation, ad sales

    It seems it’s not just big digital publishers like BuzzFeed and BDG looking to generative artificial intelligence tools as ways to streamline their sales process. Podcast networks, like Acast, iHeartMedia and Spotify, are also testing these tools to increase their outreach to prospective clients, expand the range of shows that fit a buyer’s brief and…

  • Sanofi eyes less carbon, more impact from ads 

    Sanofi is playing eco-detective to sniff out just how green its advertising really is. And no, this doesn’t sound like the usual corporate green spiel; the pharmaceutical giant appears to be actually strapping in for the heavy lifting in cutting emissions.  Prasad Sridhar, Sanofi’s head of media, spells it out: marketers there are doing more…