Wednesday, October 24, 2012

CLosing Ceremony: GUBL Championships


The basketball Chamipionship Part 2


The basketball Championship 2012


 
The Gauteng university basketball  league championships Monash Vs. U.P


The Gauteng University basketball League Championships

Efua Keitumetse bortsie (Point Guard Monash Women's Basketball team)

 

Monash University Women's basketball team Captain
Rutendo Thandeka Beverly Mpofu


University Sport South Africa



Gauteng University basketball league Chairperson
Mandla Ngema Giving awards



Medals Awarded to Participants of the basketball Championships
 



Most valuable Players awarded by GUBL( right) Monash women's Coach Shoniwa (Middle) Rutendo

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Digital Versus Print: Journalism in the 21st century


By Natasha Chewe Mulenga






It is quite interesting really; the evolution of media is at an all-time high. If one recalls, letter writing was a personal favorite and kept me socialized in my own little way. Yet today, i become a victim of the text bug and so has 90% of the population.

On your way to work, through different transportation routes such as train, personal vehicle or even bus, newspapers have been around for so long to be thrown away today. Though digital media seems to be spring cleaning its way into 90% of the households i may have been in. 

The value of print against digital media can be compared in so many ways yet would not be fair in terms of progress. One would look at it this way, twitter is convenient, easy to use and more affordable than a newspaper purchase made at local supermarkets.
The question of credibility comes into play as today anyone can be termed a journalist simply because of the availability of platforms online for one to express their self. Is print journalism dying? Is digital media the cause? One would think there is equal blame on each type of media.

Furthermore, one would look at print media as restricting as the sole purpose is to break news and wonder what else happens. Usually front page stories may vary from 300 to 500 words and then be made a follow up for the next coming weeks. One would then argue that digital media on the other hand is so diverse that a reader can make his/her own conclusion through reading many articles and also can ask the author questions to clarify anything that may have been missed unlike newspaper or magazine.

As much as newspapers seem more inappropriate, they remain an object of importance in the sense that they can be kept for future reference for any journalist and reader. Although environmental factors may come to play, there are many campaigns being run on reducing the harvesting of trees for production. 

It is simply up to the reader to decide which means of media to use in the extraction of information. Furthermore in relation to journalism and media distribution, bloggers maybe denting the image of what true journalism is as the accuracy of their information is questionable. Before one had to get a degree in journalism to be called a journalist and put through different channels to prove their authenticity in media coverage yet today that is not the case.
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External Links
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/harper.html  Journalism in the digital Age by Christopher Harper
Sports Journalism: Context and Issues: Media, Communication and Culture Series, Raymond Boyle,Pine Forge Press, 2006