The Big Issue #303
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Lightbulb moments
Damon Galgut’s Booker-winning novel probes white South Africa and the land issue.
Exposing more secrets
Broadcast journalist and author Mandy Winer chats to Pan Macmillan about her novel The Whistleblowers.
Broadcasting during the global pandemic
Tessa van Staden, Station Manager for CapeTalk 567AM has worked in radio for most of her life. She first stepped into a studio at the age of five when she accompanied her mother to the live recording of then popular radio dramas.
Harm versus storytelling
Minimising harm while doing the job of telling stories … and remembering those who died in service.
I don’t know the answer to that …
This may just be me, but I have used the sentence ‘I don’t know the answer to that’, or versions of it, more times over the past year than in the rest of my life put together.
Inside the Newsroom …
Media insights straight from the heart of one of South Africa’s most prolific newsrooms as told by newly appointed News Editor at Eyewitness News, Nisa Allie.
Strengthening systems and institutions
South African institutions are limping and the media is no exception …
Journalism makes blunders and insider’s view
Anton Harber, veteran South African journalist, editor and Professor of Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand wrote So, For the Record: Behind the Headlines in an Era of State Capture. It’s a deep dive into the conduct of the media as mega corruption and state capture engulfed and eventually brought down Jacob Zuma’s administration. Politics Editor Thabo Leshilo asked the author to provide the highlights.
Music to your ears
Ten young ambitious musicians from Cape Town have been awarded full bursaries to change the tune of their futures with Bridges For Music Academy’s five-month Music MBA programme.
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