RJR No1
5 Editorial
7 Guest editorial. Press Freedom must be safeguarded in the New South Africa by Donald Woods
10 Natal Violence. There are few innocents by Fred Kockott
23 Making a meal of it by Dani Malan
27 Tony Grogan on Cartoons
33 The Media Policy Debate. And should it even be taking place? Papers presented at the Media Policy Workshop held at Rhodes University.
59 PR comes of age in South Africa by Brian Cullingworth
63 D.T.P by Michael Green
RJR No2
5 Editorial
7 Guest Editorial by Richard Steyn
11 Pulitzer! By Karen Stander
15 The Alternatives. Redefining the editoral role by Irwin Manoim
19 Afrikaans Media. What future in the new South Africa? By Ton Vosloo
23 Pen Sketches by Dov Fedler
29 The Marshall Arts by Gill Marshall
35 Life more abundant. A retrospective look at Drum Magazine in the 1970s by Kerry Swift
43 Advocacy Journalism. Has it advanced Truth or is it merely the flip side of the propaganda coin? By Adli Jacobs
45 Something has to be done by Graeme Addison
47 A pox on your taxes by Reg Lascaris
51 Before and after. A local designer describes his work for Canada’s leading daily newspaper by Tony Sutton
57 A question of values by Guy Berger
RJR No 3
5 Editorial
7 Guest Editorial by Tony Heard
13 The Inaugural Ackerman Press Freedom Lecture by Max du Preez
19 Through the eye of Richard Smith
23 PR Should sell, not tell by Linda Trump
27 Why only silence reigns by Nomavenda Mathiane
33 A plea for moral gravity by Paul Johnson
36 Coming up for air time by Don Pinnock & Llewelyn Roderick
38 Think Small by Irwin Manoim
42 Journalists as Mediators by Hannes Siebert & Melissa Baumann
47 Let’s put more pros in the house journal hot seat by Tom Ferreira
49 And in this corner by Eric Louw
RJR No 4
5 Editorial
7 Guest Editorial by Nigel Bruce
13 Thumbsuck by Thomas Fairbairn
15 Experience is still the great teacher by Michael Ettershank
19 Why not unbundled the house journal! By Kerry Swift
20 Journalists speak by Charles Riddle
22 A beggar cannot be independent by Fred M’Membe
25 Inside the head of Derek Bauer by Derek Bauer
28 Rooting in dark places by Rex Gibson
31 In search of the holy space by Raymond Louw
35 What to do about broadcasting by Raymond Louw
39 Warring in the ether by Lebona Mosia, Don Pinnock & Charles Riddle
44 Perhaps we’ve got it all wrong by Chris Skinner
47 Media Watch by Clare Quinn
RJR No 5
5 Editorial
7 Guest editorial by Jon Qwelane
11 Thumbsuck by Thomas Fairbairn
12 Burning the Messenger by Derek Smith
14 Facing the challenge of an ailing industry by Guy Berger
16 Growing milkwoods down under by Gus Silber
19 Searching for the mother of all cartoons by Fred Mouton
23 Is that you bwana editor? By Donald Trelford
27 Why and How by Dave Hazelhurst
31 Revamp rewarded by Ebbe Dommisse
35 Press bashing ain’t what it used to be by Tony Heard
38 News picture of the year by Rob Edgecomb
41 Waiting for dead men’s shoes by Mark Gevisser
44 A fledgeling press under siege by Trevor Ncube
49 It’s time to bury ‘alternative’ by Don Pinnock
52 Media Watch by James Zaffiro
RJR No 6
5 Editorial
7 Guest Editorial by Guy Berger
11 Thumbsuck by Thomas Fairbairn
12 Targeting the media by Karen Stander
15 Can the leopard really change its spots? By Mark Gevisser
18 Argus Holdings ringing the changes by Gus Silber
21 A damnably hazardous enterprise by Kerry Swift
29 Designer forum by Odette Marais
35 Joao Silver by Harold Gess
39 Of pens and ploughshares by Don Pinnock
41 Moulding the clay of a new dispensation by Shaun Johnson
43 Getting the lambs to gambol by Hugh Cudlipp
48 The 1993 Freedom of the press lecture by Jane Raphaely
53 Eisenstaedt by Michael Ettershank
57 Radio, Schmadio by Charles Riddle & Larry Strelitz
58 Off the Cuff. Colin Legum’s long journey home by Colin Legum
RJR No 7
3 Editorial
5 Guest editorial by Richard Steyn
9 Thumbsuck by Thomas Fairbairn
10 Power Player. Profile Ton Vosloo by Gus Silber
15 Crossing the great divide by Ruth Teer-Tomaselli
18 The New SA in the new world media order by Nigel Bruce
25 Reporting the ivy league by Arrie de Beer
28 Morphing the Mail. Designer’s Forum: Behind the recnt merging of the Weekly Mail and Guardian by Irwin Manoim
33 Ideology and the image by Ivor Powell
39 From Belfast to Boipatong by Fergal Keane
42 Pen Sketches: Jock Leyden by Benedict Said
46 Advocacy in environmental reporting by Ted Avis
51 Freedom of Speech and the new constitution by John Grogan
54 Newspapers of the future: a marriage of marketing and meaning by Cleo Ehlers
56 Through the eyes of Alf Kumalo
RJR No 8
2 Editorial
3 Guest Editorial by Joe Thloloe
5 The good and bad of the honeymoon by Michael Morris
7 The challenge to the country press by Harvey Tyson
8 A growing clutch of community voices by Franz Kruger
11 Three steps to sustain media diversity by Jolyon Nuttall
12 Aunty Argus marries an Irish cousin by Robin McGregor
14 Jonathan Shapiro is Zapiro
18 By Gutenberg, it’s an exciting way to make a newspaper! By Andre Meyerowitz
Election Focus
23 ‘Just another little hitch’ by Mark van der Velden
24 Educating Rita (and Mike, and Temba, and …) by Michelle Kemp
29 Natal Journos become journalists again by Lakela Kaunda
30 The mother of all broadcasts by George Mazarakis
33 Monitoring the media for fair treatment by Zubeida Jaffer
35 Secrecy still stalks the corridors of power by Don Pinnock
37 Let us talk of codes and acts by Gavin Stewart
39 A death unrecorded is a death forgotten by Sally Roper
43 Circulation: chasing the numbers can harm your profile by Cleo Ehlers
45 Media skills in the making by Guy Berger
46 Bad news. Reporting in Africa by Mohammed Amin
48 Regulations for a range of voices by Larry Strelitz
50 Between state and commerce by Graham Hayman
52 Going live with the editors by Nigel Murphy
54 Find the logic and win a bakkie by Sylvia Vollenhoven
56 Thumbsuck by Thomas Fairburn
RJR No 9
3 Editorial.
3 Guest Editorial by Bill Ketter
4 Digital news will set journalists free to cover the local angle by Ed Richardson
5 Revolutionary Photography by Montgomery Cooper
6 Hammer and Nail. Gus Silber talks to Nthato Motlana
8 Flagship radio South Africa changes course by Charles Riddle
8 Amps passes its medical by Cleo Ehlers
10 Yet another African disaster by Angus Begg
11 Journalists call for sanctions by David Lush
12 Affirmative action triptych by Rory Wilson, Lakela Kaunda, Peter Sullivan
14 Len Sak
17 This is freedom radio (again and again and again…) by Charles Riddle
18 Back to the future by Kerry Swift
19 Green goal posts by Terry O’Donovan
22 FXI Conference. Papers presented at the FXI conference in October 1994
34 Confessions of an unrepentant columnist by Peregrine Worsthorne
36 Very little is sacred by Troth Wells
38 Sunlight is best disinfectant by Etienne Mureinik
40 Thumbsuck by Thomas Fairbairn
40 Death by Acronym by Richard Dudman
RJR No 10
3 Editorial
3 Guest editorial by Jim Jones
4 The trouble with television by George Mazarakis
4 What’s wrong with radio by George Mazarakis
7 A beast let loose by Neil Bierbaum
9 Romancing about Sophiatown and what might have been by Ismail Lagardien
10 Mass + Momentum = power by Gus Silber
12 On bully-beef tin scuds & what is “really” happening by David Beresford
14 Fair Lady picks up speed by Catherine Knox
17 “Image and reality”. A critique of South Africa’s English-language press by Les Switzer
20 The Shooting Season has re-opened by Stidy
24 Media council tested in press freedom fires by Ed Linnington
25 Ombudsman “hot seat” mooted by Anton Harber
26 The camera doesn’t lie (and pigs can fly) by Montgomery Cooper
28 Freedom of Information Conference. Papers presented at the Freedom of Information Conference at Rhodes University
40 Competitions: has the means become the end? By Cleo Ehlers
40 Thumbsuck by Thomas Fairbairn
RJR NO 11
2 Editorial
3 Guest Editorial by Moegsien Williams
4 Grit, Silk and Rum by Ivor Powell
8 The media and parliament: do we need to thicken the gravy? By Richard Calland
9 But journalists are doing the best they can… by Kaizer M Nyatsumba
10 Watson’s World by Geoff Watson
13 Keeping the strong state broadcaster thriving by Keith Watt
16 Live broadcast from hell by Charles Leonard
17 A new agenda for SABC radio news by Franz Kruger
18 Truth or taste. The depiction of the Hani murder by Catherine O’Dowd
21 Gourmet media. Who really consumed the alternative press? By Joan de Castro & David Everatt
22 From dreamtime to realtime by Sandile Ngidi
23 Homeless talk by Steuart Wright
24 The new dimension by Kerry Swift
24 Bloodhound in the sky (abridged version) by Kerry Swift
27 Now for the really bad news by Guy Berger
28 Ownership, control and affirmative action in Black white and grey by Thami Mazwai & John Patten
31 The Ruth First award for courageous journalism by Gavin Williams
Internet Focus
34 Log in here for the African @titude by Roland Stanbridge
38 The gatekeepers or the barbarians by Stephen D Isaacs
39 Into the wired blue yonder by Neil Jacobsohn
41 On e-haves and other things by Andrew Morris
43 Not just a plaything of the North by Bruce Cohen
45 Of copper wire and press freedom by David Lush
47 Africa: cyclists on the superhighway by David Wilson
48 Thumbsuck
RJR No 12
2 This Issue
3 Guest editorial by Anthony Sampson
4 Hightech communication on Mount Everest by Montgomery Cooper
5 The higher you climb the further you fall by Guy Berger
9 Sunday newspapers by Brian Pottinger
11 Many models of community radio by Bill Siemering
13 Mascher’s Mirror by Kim Gurney & Joanne Lille
16 Political cynicism, logic, anger…? Wither the English-language press by Margaret Legun
20 Press freedom in Southern Africa by Bojosi Otlhogile
22Memories of a nie-blanke reporter in the Boer republic by Arthur Maimane
24 The Ruth First award for courageous journalism by Phillip van Niekerk
25 A vision for television. An interview with Jill Chisholm, Head of television, SABC
28 The Internet. Goldmine for Journalists by Guy Berger
33 That hoary O word… by Michael Morris
34 The lowering of the dove. A South African case study in digital manipulation by Pieter Malan
37 From darkness into light by Mike Zajakowski
38 Go for the core by Cleo Ehlers
39 Documentary photography today by Jurgen Schadeberg
41 The 1996 freedom of the press lecture, Rhodes University by Ivan Fallon
45 Convers(at)ion in Munich by Kerry Swift
48 Thumbsuck
RJR No 13
2 This Issue
3 Guest Editorial by Mike Siluma
5 Bef+Coe=Sanef by Mike Tissong
7 Media on the menu
9 Photojournalism. An interview with Benny Gool
13 Proactive radio by Judy Sandison
15 The SA magazine industry goes boom by Annelize Visser
16 Radio days by Robin Sewlal
16 Capital assets by Robin Sewlal
18 Man kills dog by Chris Vick
19 Opening windows by Karen Thorne
20 Dear Sir: Your newspaper reeks of youth by Shaun Johnson
26 Editor or publisher: survival of the fittest. Papers presented at the Commonwealth Press Union conference in Cape Town
33 Freeze-frame of the fast track by Mathatha Tsedu
34 “Wasn’t Eugene Nyati the one who fibbed about his CV at Wits?” by Graeme Addison
37 Redesign for journalism training at the NQF interface by Jane Duncan
38 Pen Sketches. Laugh the beloved country
41 Confab of global censors by Bronwyn Keene-Young
43 Change by stealth by Gavin Stewart
48 Thumbsuck
RJR No 14
2 This issue
3 Guest Editorial by Jane Taylor
5 A paradigm shift by Melissa Baumann & Hannes Siebert
7 Archbishops & archetypes by Pamela Reynolds and Fiona Ross
8 Trading places. Excerpts from the Media, Truth & Reconciliation workshop
9 When cowboys cry by Max du Preez
10 Official Voices
11 Radio & reconciliation by Sophie Mokoena
12 Human rights & wrongs by John van Zyl
13 The writing was always on the wall, but where were the reporters? By Mandla Langa
16 From carousel to tightrope by Stephen Laufer
17 Language words. Journalists talk about translations, terms and meanings
20 Racism in the newsroom. By Joe Latakgomo & Dennis Pather
22 Now journalists can be journalists by Zubeida Jaffer