{"id":58107,"date":"2014-05-20T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=58107"},"modified":"2014-05-20T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:13:13","slug":"mail-guardian-africa-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/58107\/mail-guardian-africa-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail &#038; Guardian Africa launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M&amp;G Media has announced the launch of <a title=\"MG Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mgafrica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mail and Guardian Africa<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201ca digital news platform for Africans to tell the African story\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mail and Guardian Africa aims to be the leading and most important commercially successful contemporary voice on African issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNews analysis, insight, commentary and investigative journalism will be the hallmark of this Pan African platform,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Roper, editor-in-chief of M&amp;G Media, describes M&amp;G Africa as \u201ca very necessary addition to the journalism landscape of the continent, and one that knits together the many voices of Africa into a coherent, thoughtful tapestry, rather than the more usual competing narratives imposed on the continent by interest groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Mail &amp; Guardian<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Bullard sues Mail &amp; Guardian for defamation\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/55109\/bullard-sues-mail-guardian-for-defamation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Bullard sues Mail &amp; Guardian for defamation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Mail &amp; Guardian loses ombudsman appeal\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/45825\/mail-guardian-loses-ombudsman-appeal\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mail &amp; Guardian loses ombudsman appeal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Mail&amp;Guardian editor resigns\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/38057\/mailguardian-editor-resigns\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mail &amp; Guardian editor resigns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to M&amp;G appoints new deputy editor\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/53327\/mg-appoints-new-deputy-editor\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">M&amp;G appoints new deputy editor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M&#038;G Media has launched Mail and Guardian Africa \u2013 a digital news platform for Africans to tell the African story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25,4881,7304],"class_list":["post-58107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active","tag-mail-guardian","tag-online-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58109,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58107\/revisions\/58109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}