The Newspaper Association invites applications from Black Female Practitioners who are performing exceptionally well and who wish to be accredited with a marketing qualification during the 2010 academic year.

The Newspapers Association offers a bursary fund to Black Female Practitioners for a one year course, subject to attached conditions and criteria.  The NASA Bursary Fund seeks to ensure continuing training and career development opportunities for professionals in the print media industry.

The NASA shall appoint an independent panel of experts to assess the applications.

Objectives

-          To develop and mould scarce talent as identified in the Seta Sector Skills Plan so as to improve retention prospects.

-          To assist the industry reaching Employment Equity targets especially with regard to middle to senior professional management levels and specifically women.

-          To provide deserving industry practitioners from historically disadvantaged groups who have been employed in the industry for a while, but have not obtained any qualifications in their area of operation, with an opportunity for career enhancement that will bestow upon them accreditation and certification.

Eligibility Criteria

All applicants shall have Matric or have an equivalent (NQF level 4.) level of education.

The Applicant should have the following:

• Be creative
• Be Sales driven
• Have marketing initiative

The selection process includes filling in an application form and writing a letter of motivation of not less than five hundred (500) words, which specify:

-          Reasons for choosing this field of study.

-          Candidates' aspirations

-          How the candidates qualification will benefit the Company / Media House.

The application form and a letter of motivation should be accompanied by:-

Click on Download for the Application Form.

 - A detailed curriculum vitae.
 - A reference letter from the manager/editor.
 - A certified copy of the applicant's identity documents.
 - The educational institution of choice with the identified course. (Also enclose all supporting documents. eg. Course outline, duration and prescribed study materials.

Agreement

Successful candidates shall be expected to enter into a bursary agreement during studies and the beneficiaries and respective employer shall commit to continued employment to utilise the skills gained.

Submissions must be addressed to Print Media SA and reach the Print Media SA by no later than November 30, 2009.

Postal Address:
P O Box 47180
Parklands
2121

Physical address:
2nd Floor, 7 St Davids Place
St Davids Park
Parktown

Electronic
Email: bursary@printmedia.org.za
Fax: (011) 551-9650

Note.

Applicants must be South African and have worked in the newspaper environment for over 5 years (full time employee).  Only Short listed candidates will be contacted.

A vacancy has opened in one of the country's leading newspapers under the Independent Newspapers banner.  The Star is looking to employ a layout artist to carry out the following duties:-

• Designing of spec advertisements
• Layout of features and supplements
• Liaising with people at all levels
• Being innovative and creative
• Responsible for Special projects
• Meet strict deadlines

The selection criteria are as follows:-

• Minimum internship completed at a newspaper or production
• Must be computer literate in Quark Xpress , Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Corel Draw.
• Typing with 55wpm.

Interested applicants who meet the criteria should submit a letter of application and CV to recruitment@inl.co.za by no later than November 25, 2009.  This appointment will be in line with the Advertisement Department Employment Equity target.  If you have not heard from The Star within two weeks then consider your application unsuccessful.

Independent Newspaper has a vacancy for a Senior Soccer Writer for "Shoot" in the Sports Department. (Paterson Grading - C5).

Qualification and Experience:

• Minimum 2 years experience on a daily newspaper
• Relevant tertiary education
• Excellent English skills
• Passion for writing and football
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent general knowledge
• Valid code 8 driver's licence
• Enthusiastic and hard working
• Be a keen reader and a team player.

Duties

• Produce well-written feature articles.
• Keep abreast of top soccer stories in the news.
• Committed to high standards of quality and willing to put in extra effort when needed.
• Maintain contacts and sources.
• Work well under deadline pressure.

This appointment will be in line with Pretoria News EE Target.

Interest applicants who meet the criteria should submit a letter of application and a CV to cv@inl.co.za by no later than 25 November 2009.11.18

Source: The workplace, The Star

A special invitation-only session on restrictions to media coverage of sports, and how to fight them, is being staged at the WAN-IFRA Congress in Hyderabad, India on Wednesday, December 2nd 2009, from 12.30 to 14.00. Invitations are being sent to those that have registered with WAN-IFRA as participants at the Congress.

Key figures - publishers, editors and digital sports news specialists - are being asked to participate in this lunchtime forum, which will focus on the needs of the news media in creating and distributing compelling content from major public sports events. With the FIFA World Cup just 6 months away, this session provides in particular a unique insight into the editorial, press freedom and business challenges of sports news, from South Africa, to India, Australia to the United Kingdom.   

The session is being organised by the International Association of Sports Newspapers (IASN), which is the sports branch of WAN-IFRA, and the News Media Coalition.

The IASN, founded in June 2008, is dedicated to promoting the values of sports and the interests and freedom of the sports press. At the core of IASN's mission are: the safeguard of the ethical and economic interests of sports newspapers; the promotion of the role of sports newspapers as a marketing tool for the brands associated with sport; the fight against racism and xenophobia in sports; the promotion of sports and reading among children; the support to volunteerism in the sporting world; and the promotion of the use of sport as a tool in development policies.                 

The News Media Coalition (NMC) seeks to preserve the function and ability of news organisations to inform public society about major events of interest. The News Media Coalition exists, above all, to defend press freedom. An international organisation, the NMC is focused on the specific threat to editorial operations, publishing and independent journalism from excessive controls on the flow of news to the public imposed by events entities such as sports governing bodies.We seek to ensure that the right and duty of the News Media to report any and all matters of public interest, freely, without interference and according to editorial judgement, is guaranteed and defended at all times.

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Join leading newspaper executives and editors-in-chief, including:

- Les Hinton, Chief Executive Officer, Dow Jones & Co, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, the newspaper at the forefront of creating a new paid-for business model for digital news delivery; 

- Andreas Wiele, President of BILD, Europe's largest newspaper and the centrepiece of Axel Springer's growth strategy in the multimedia age;

- Mahendra Mohan Gupta, Chairman, Managing Director and Managing Editor of Jagran Prakashan Ltd. in India, whose Dainik Jagran newspaper is the world's highest read daily, with a certified readership of 54.5 million;

- Steve Engelberg, Managing Editor, Propublica.org, the US-based investigative reporting organisation that is leading the debate on whether journalism in the public interest is at risk in the digital age;

- Rafat Ali, the founder of Paidcontent.org, which is seeking to define sustainable business models and innovation for digital media;

- and many more!

Full programme details and other information can be found at http://www.wanindia2009.com

The 62nd World Newspaper Congress, 16th World Editors Forum, and Info Services  Expo 2009, the global summit meetings of the world's press, 1 to 3 December 2009.

There is still time to register, click here! Special measures have been taken by Indian authorities to facilitate the processing of visas for Congress and Forum participants and Hyderabad is linked by direct flights to major cities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

 

Sowetan, SANEF, MISA-SA, IAJ , FXI, and PMSA will be commemorating October 19th - also known as Black Wednesday, when several media organisations were banned on October 19 1977. This was a  huge setback for freedom of expression in the then apartheid SA.

We have come a long way since then and will be celebrating some of our democratic institutions on this day.

Date:	19 October 2009
Time:	12h30 to 16h00
Venue:	Wits University (Downstairs theatre at Wits Theatre, East Campus)
Reserved parking has been arranged at the Planetarium - Enter via Yale rd, off Empire rd. Enclosed is a map of Wits University - East Campus. (Closest street to the venue is Jorissen str.)

To join us, please RSVP by 12 October 2009 with the SANEF national office on 011 484 3630 / 011 484 3617 / 084 784 2006 or send an email to admin@sanef.org.za

 

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

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