Not off
the presses
This page will be eventually be filled with the fruits of
my labour as a journalist. The ultimate vision being a comprehensive set of all
the articles I've published. In the interim, a brief selection.
Feature stories
• Highlighting issues affecting children and women around the world,
such as "Mothers in TFYR Macedonia battle the cycle of poverty with reading, writing
and arithmetic"; "Peace
education programme provides opportunity for learning, life skills and leisure" and "
When small investments reap exponential improvements in children's lives" in Tanzania.
Regular personal columns
• This week on the Internet: This was the most widely read online
and offline column covering the internet in South Africa from a business perspective.
It had 72 000 users online and 1.8 million readers in print where it appeared
on the front of the business section. Some examples: South
Africa trails in the Internet innovation race, Vinton Cerf's interplanetary
Internet and a futurist's view on why E-commerce is
dead.
• Connecting with the Internet: This weekly educational issues column
covered the best and most appropriate web resources for teachers and learners
of different ages. It was a front page feature in the Sunday Times education supplement,
readRight, and appeared in the education
section online. For example: Games
and learning; Communication
and Sex
education. The column received more than 60 e-mails a week were received from
teachers, parents and students.
Breaking news
• ICE (Information, Commerce, Entertainment): I ran Sunday Times branded
breaking news mobile
service with service provider, MTN. This made use of SMS (short message service)
and rIVR (remote integrated voice response) technology and was a world first when
it launched.
• South African National Elections 1999: Developed, wrote for and managed
team to run two parallel, around-the-clock websites covering the run up to results
of the 1999 elections: Elections.co.za and Sunday
Times Election'99. These sites were the first media to report on voting
loopholes like being able to vote
twice and we developed the first of its kind of electoral
interactivity. Our coverage was internationally recognised and referenced.
• WashingtonPost.com: Part of the Post's breaking news team that covered,
among other issues, the crash of TWA Flight 800, the Valujet crash, Chechnya and
the Peruvian hostage taking.
