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The Ethics of Purpose-Led Communication: A Q&A With Palesa Mokomele
Real stories power awareness campaigns, but whose voice really shapes them? media update's talks to Palesa Mokomele about consent, dignity and building trust in purpose-led communication.
When Literacy Development Meets Easy Answers: A Deeper Look at South Africa’s Literacy Crisis
media update considers how our relationship with AI and the decline in reading for pleasure fit into South Africa's literacy crisis.
The Cost of Disconnected Marketing and Operations
media update considers what happens when businesses experience misalignment in marketing and operations by looking at the recent SPAR Chairman and Deputy Chair's resignations as case study.
The Growing Influence of News Creators in South Africa
South African news creators are drawing audience attention on par with traditional outlets. media update looks at how independent creators are rivalling legacy media for reach and whether the industry's fears around algorithms and misinformation hold up locally.
When Local Language Meets Global Default
South Africa's multilingual reality can get lost when local languages present a challenge for developing language technology. media update considers what it means when the language we use does not fit the systems built to understand it.
Taste as an Editorial Skill
media update considers how technology and trend culture shape our relationship with taste, and why developing discernment and an independent perspective remains essential to editorial judgement.
Rethinking DOOH: A Q&A With Remi du Preez — Part One
Digital advertising gets more crowded as Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) keeps growing into a flexible and measurable medium. media update talks to Remi du Preez about what marketers misunderstand about outdoor advertising and how to use it more strategically.
Rethinking DOOH: A Q&A With Remi du Preez — Part Two
As with any advertising medium, implementing programmatic Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) is only strategically sound if you can trust the numbers behind it. media update's talks to Remi du Preez about aggregation and independent verification to understand how to build DOOH into a genuine omnichannel campaign.
How Spaces Shape the Stories We Tell About Them
media update considers how the way we experience our surroundings can influence what we believe about them, and why changing that perception requires more than a fresh coat of paint.
When Purpose Meets People — A Q&A With Tarri Parfitt
media update talks to Tarri Parffit about how the Smile Foundation communicates humanitarian influence and keeps people at the heart of the cause.
The Human Edge in an Automated Communications Industry: A Q&A With Kevin Welman
media update talks to Kevin Welman about how agencies can balance integration with specialist knowledge, creativity with commercial value and technological efficiency with human relationships to build lasting credibility.
Roots to Reinvention — The Editor's Note
Spring notoriously signals new beginnings, meaning most industries lean on this symbolism for their own gain. media update considers how publicity campaigns can offer an edge to an overdone story by rooting a brand's future in its own history.
Celebrating its 29th year, the 2026 PRISMS Summit and Awards has announced that the three-day Summit will be taking place from Thursday, 22 to Saturday, 24 October at the Indaba Hotel in Johannesburg.
As South Africans prepare to gather around for Heritage Day observed on Thursday, 24 September, FOUR PAWS has encouraged South Africans to make compassion part of the celebration by enjoying plant-based dishes.
Reach For A Dream has announced the launch of its annual Dream Raffle, a draw aimed at making the dreams of children facing life-threatening illnesses come true.
Red Ribbon Communications has secured the South African public relations mandate for Cloudera following a competitive pitch process.
The Glass Recycling Company (TGRC) has announced that from September to December it will take its glass recycling message directly into communities across five provinces, building on its ongoing work to grow the country's collection network and create greater participation and opportunity across the glass recycling value chain.
With World Crochet Day being celebrated on Friday, 12 September, Re.Bag.Re.Use has used this as an opportunity to celebrate a craft passed down through generations and to explore the potential benefits of crochet.
Retina South Africa, a South African advocacy for people living with inherited retinal conditions, has announced three milestones in its mission to prevent and treat retinal blindness.
A recent campus-led initiative called 'Hearts2Hope' has seen the PR3 Class of 2026 at Boston Media House combine creativity, energy, teamwork and their Public Relations skills with the aim to raise awareness and rally the community behind Hearts of Hope.
FOUR PAWS has announced that it is celebrating the eighth "rescueversary" of lions Micca and Juba, who arrived at LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary on 13 September 2018 after being rescued from a farm where they had been kept for security purposes.
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