UNISA: DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION SCIENCE

A two year contract appointment is available for a person with experience in journalism and new media (internet).  The person will have to fulfil the following duties:

• Have to gather and publish news for the College of Human Sciences in various formats (hard copy, internet, intranet etc.)
• Have to develop and maintain the College intranet
• Have to train and manage a news team of student volunteers for an online newspaper and a radio station

Requirements:

• A relevant tertiary qualification
• Journalism experience (for example also in student journalism)
• Experience in web content design and management
• Should be able to submit a portfolio as prove of experience

Remuneration:  Negotiable depending on qualifications and experience

Applicants should by Friday 9 October send an application letter with their CV's and certified copies of their qualifications to:

Ms M Malefo
Department of Communication Science
Room 7-69
Theo van Wijk Building
PO Box 392
UNISA
0003

Or

E-mail: dplesdf@unisa.ac.za

Enquiries: Prof Danie du Plessis/ Ms M Malefo, Tel: 012 429 6565

Though there were fewer entries this year, the general quality of entries for the annual Sanlam Awards for Community Press was as high as ever in the past.  The awards were presented for the 19^th time on Friday evening at the awards dinner in Johannesburg attended by more than 200 editors, journalists, photographers and their proud bosses. 

This year some 145 community newspapers took part.  And 945 individual entries in the various sections for typography, writing and photography were judged.  More than 1 000 photographs were judged individually.

According to Hugo Redelinghuys, manager: Media Relations at Sanlam Group Communication, the competition is the largest of the 32 press competitions held in South Africa annually.

"The awards are highly regarded as a benchmark for excellence in journalism and related fields in the community papers," he says.

In the Journalist of the Year section, the Cape Town stronghold of the past three successive years was broken by Desireé Rorke of Lowvelder, Nelspruit.  Impressive investigative work pulled her through and it was not a surprise when she was also credited with the first prize in the section Investigative Journalism.

Last year's Journalist of the Year, Pam Fourie of Cape Community Newspapers' Tabletalk, confirmed her class, when she captured top honours in Hard News, the second prize in Investigative, third prize in Local Government and sharing fourth place in Editorial Comment.

The Alet Roux Medal of Honour for the best newcomer in the Writing category went to Kate Henry of Caxton's Rosebank & Killarney Gazette.

An exceptional portfolio earned Claudine Senekal of the Ladysmith Herald the Photographer of the Year prize, including a camera sponsored by CANON.  She also won the section Portraits and had five photos in the News section's top 10, including the runner-up picture.

The competition was as fierce as ever in the newspaper category, the Lowvelder and Polokwane Observer walked away with the Sanlam Cronwright and the Sanlam Hultzer trophies respectively for newspapers with circulation of more and less than 15 000.  Zoutpansberger won the Sanlam Award as best independed community newspaper in the country for the second year running.

In the Front Pages category Vaal Weekly (paid papers), Springs Advertiser (free sheets) and Witzenberg Herald, Ceres (small town papers) chalked up the first prizes.

In the Writing category two of the best achievers were a couple, Des and Anneli Erasmus representing the Namibian weekly Erongo, who clinched the sections Editorial Comment and Columns respectively.

Other Writing section winners were Liezl van Rooyen of Springs Advertiser (Local Government), Evan Naudé of Weslander, Western Cape (Human Interest), Izolde Pistorius, Vaal Weekly (Personal Finance & Business News) and Yusuf Omar, Muslim Views (Sport).

On the Photography side Sieb Sieberhagen (Paarl Post, Feature photos), Jacques Steenkamp (Vaal Weekly, three in the top 4 News photos) and Herman Steyn (Die Pos, Bela-Bela), the winner Sport photos, with four shots in the top 10, shared the main prizes with Claudine Senekal.

Media enquiries:  Hugo Redelinghuys 082 440 6331 or 021 947 3393

Distributed by Sanlam Group Communication 021 947 2512

The National Electronic Media institute of South Africa invites all prospective learners to experience a taste of the stimulating and thrilling worlds of Animation, Graphic Design/Multimedia, TV or Radio. Come to our full day Spring Workshop and experience the wonder of creating moving characters in the animation department, or the thrill of designing your first magazine advert in graphic design. Try your DJ skills in Radio and become a TV director for a day.

This is a unique opportunity to expose yourself to exciting careers in the media industries!

 

NEMISA offers learners the chance to make it big in any of four different aspects of media at our state-of-the-art facilities staffed by skilled and experienced practitioners who assist in making your dreams come true.

Bursaries available for qualified applicants.

For more information contact Victoria Tau on 011.484.0583

Date:	28th or 29th September 2009
Time:	9.00 am to 3.00 pm
Place:	NEMISA, 21 Girton Road, Parktown
Email:	info@nemisa.co.za
Website:	www.nemisa.org.za

 

As you may be aware, meetings concerning accreditation issues for the industry have been taking place over the last few months.  A joint working group has been established and is constituted of Print Media SA, South African National Editors Forum, South African Press Association, Online Publishers Association, NAB, and Magazine Publishers Association under the guidance of the News Media Coalition.  The task team has provisionally named itself the SAMIG (South African Media Interest Group). 

The purpose of this joint working group is to ensure that the right and duty of the media to report any and all matters of public interest, freely and without interference, is guaranteed and defended at all times.  The core objectives of SAMIG are to seek:

• Curb unreasonable editorial, commercial or digital media restrictions being imposed upon the Media.

• To work with event organisers to help them effectively manage their relationship with the media

• To promote consensus and avoid conflicts

• Accreditation agreements for events which are negotiated and agreed in advance and are in harmony with the needs of the Media

With the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 coming up, the NMC has on discussions with the ICC agreed on certain conditions including:

• Material can be distributed to mobile devices, audio visual subject to ICC news access regulations

• Editorial use in print would not be restricted to 'news sections'

• The rule banning content being created in newsrooms is waived, with fair-use of stills 'video grabs' of broadcast footage away from location, unrestricted

• There will be no numerical or timing limits on updating websites

• A desire to encourage media coverage rather than limit newspaper or news agency publishing or news distribution

• Without changing the existing wording, said accreditation would not be revoked unless in extreme cases.

To this end, we are advised by the NMC that journalists and photographers should go ahead and apply for accreditation for this sporting event. Click here to view the complete ICC terms and conditions.

We will keep you informed of any further developments and/or media accreditation matters for Cricket South Africa, FIFA and other major events. 

Regards,

MS I LOUW
CEO: PRINT MEDIA SA

10 September 2009

Who better to teach you to be a journalist than one of the country's leading newspaper publisher?  Independent Newspaper has launched the "Independent School of Editorial Excellence" of which the aim to convert graduates into quality journalists.  As advertised in the The Star Workplace (Wednesday, September 9, 2009), this is a 10-month programme which entails training in the actual newsrooms and being trained by the country's top journalists.

Click here for more information.

 

 

The Media24 Journalism Academy is partly a result of a skills audit which was commissioned by the South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) in 2002.  The academy aims to empower incoming reporters by ensuring that they are well prepared for the tasks that lay ahead of them in the industry.  The academy caters for all journalist needs, and in so being it covers preparation for online, mobile, newspaper and magazines journalism.

The academy has open applications for the year 2010. They are looking for 16 students for 12 month internship programme to start in February. All interested parties should click here for more information.