Newsletter n°19/19.06.08 Going Mobile? The Punch Leads the Way in Exploiting A New Outlet in Nigeria Responding to the dramatic increase in mobile telephone use in Nigeria, The Punch, the country’s leading newspaper, will launch the country’s first full mobile news service this month. “In 1999 there were 400,000 mobile telephone users in Nigeria. This year’s figure is about 40 million,” said Azubuike Ishiekwene, executive director of publications at Punch Nigeria Limited to RAP 21.
Newsletter n°16/21.05.08 Newsroom Barometer Survey Findings Illuminate Future Changes and Continuing Problems in African Newsrooms The 2008 Newsroom Barometer, a global survey, which collected the opinions of more than 700 editors and senior news executives, reveals that many press executives around the world are optimistically grasping modern media trends while increasingly forgoing more traditional practices. At the same time there are important differences that stem from varying obstacles and advantages unique to the press in different regions of the world.
Newsletter n° 1/06.01.05 New Technologies: Zambian newspaper launches nationwide Internet project The privately-owned newspaper The Post in Zambia is taking significant steps to make technological advances. The most recent measure towards improvement is not only for the publication itself but for the entire nation. The latest stage in this major project launched two years ago, is to implement a nationwide Internet Service Provider (ISP) project.
Newsletter n° 37/ 14.11.03 One Man Show on the Web Ambitious strategy initiated by one man to take his publication online in a bid to survive in the face of escalating printing costs.
Newsletter n° 35/23.10.03 Benin: Online version of daily newspaper invests big and aims high Over 3,500 daily visits motivates online newspaper, "Le Matinal" to develop its web site.In its series of articles about the online versions of African newspapers, this week RAP 21 examines "Le Matinal" in Benin, which is about to launch its fifth online version.
Newsletter n° 31/ 22.09.2003 Different Newspapers; Common problems The lack of a printing press, a weak advertising market, inadequate professional staff, and a poor reading culture are just a few of the problems listed when RAP21 asked a panel of editors-in-chiefs what they saw as the principle constraints facing small publications in Africa and around the world.
Newsletter n° 68 Outsourcing Almost Everything Sometimes the most cost-effective way to get something done at a newspaper
is to pay someone else to do it. That’s the approach taken by Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest morning newspaper.
Responding to the dramatic increase in mobile telephone use in Nigeria, The Punch, the country’s leading newspaper, will launch the country’s first full mobile news service this month. “In 1999 there were 400,000 mobile telephone users in Nigeria. This year’s figure is about 40 million,” said Azubuike Ishiekwene, executive director of publications at Punch Nigeria Limited to RAP 21.
The 2008 Newsroom Barometer, a global survey, which collected the opinions of more than 700 editors and senior news executives, reveals that many press executives around the world are optimistically grasping modern media trends while increasingly forgoing more traditional practices. At the same time there are important differences that stem from varying obstacles and advantages unique to the press in different regions of the world.
The privately-owned newspaper The Post in Zambia is taking significant steps to make technological advances. The most recent measure towards improvement is not only for the publication itself but for the entire nation. The latest stage in this major project launched two years ago, is to implement a nationwide Internet Service Provider (ISP) project.