News publishers who are beating social media networks at their own game
Canada’s Village Media and South Africa’s Daily Maverick built their own social media platforms.
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Memberships making up 40% of revenue for South Africa’s Daily Maverick
The publisher has 30,000 active members and is pleased with a churn rate of 4.65%.
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Major South African news site ‘shuts down’ for a day to alert readers to ‘crisis in journalism’
The Daily Maverick takes “drastic” action in bid to explain why audience should become paying members.
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Sun reporter appears in South African court as Dewani trial told of £25,000 stories deal with male escort
The trial of Shrien Dewani (pictured, Reuters) has been told The Sun brokered a £25,000 deal for stories with a…
BySouth African journalist arrested following reports of police brutality
South African journalist Hein Coetzee was arrested after he had reported complaints that police had assaulted them and threatened them…
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