Newspapers appear at media hearing
All major newspaper companies have appeared before the Print and Digital Media Transformation Task Team, Print and Digital Media SA (PDMSA) said on Tuesday (April 30).
“We at PDMSA are delighted that all the country’s biggest newspaper and digital media houses have now made their representations to the [team],” CEO Ingrid Louw said in a statement.
“This augurs well for the legitimacy of the process.”
Louw said PDMSA was keenly awaiting the task team’s report and recommendations.
The task team was set up in September last year to help the industry develop a common transformation strategy.
It is examining issues such as ownership, management, employment equity, skills development, and the low level of black ownership in many large media groups.
It was established after Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications criticised the print media sector and called for a transformation charter.
PDMSA, formerly called Print Media SA, rejected the idea and said the media industry would deal with the matter in its own way.
The process was expected to be finished by the end of April this year, but was delayed amid concern of duplication with the Competition Commission investigation into anti-competitive behaviour in the industry.
This matter was finalised last month and the task team’s hearing resumed.
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