Media entrepreneur Trevor Ncube has relinquished majority shares in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. In a statement posted on Twitter on 12 December 2017, Mr Ncube said he was “no longer in position to invest in the M&G”. He acquired shares in 2002 and oversaw the growth of M&G circulation numbers, the development of its […]
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This article was first published by Campus Times. On Wednesday 26th November Trevor Ncube delivered the highly anticipated public lecture on Media and Politics, the renowned media Mogul started off by cautioning his audience that some of his remarks in the course of the lecture would upset them. Indeed when Trevor Ncube started reproving the […]
Continue readingThis editorial was first published by The Observer. Nearly 300 members and friends of the media fraternity spent last Wednesday afternoon in a conference hall at Golf Course hotel, discussing the media and politics in Africa. The first in what will be a series of lectures on this subject was delivered by the renowned Zimbabwean […]
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This article was first published by The Observer. Africa will always be painted as a hopeless place by the Western media as long as the African media fails to tell the stories of innovation and industry on the continent, Trevor Ncube, an accomplished media entrepreneur and publisher, said on Wednesday. Speaking at the inaugural annual […]
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By Harriet Anena The African media industry must work hard to restore its reputation and integrity, Mr Trevor Ncube, a leading media entrepreneur on the continent, has said. “We have broken the trust that the public had in us,” he said. “Our reputation, good people, is in Intensive Care Unit.” Mr Ncube was speaking on […]
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By Harriet Anena The media industry, especially the newspaper, is “under siege” from so many fronts including technology, changing consumption habits, and a generational shift, a leading African media entrepreneur has said. Mr Trevor Ncube, who owns the Mail & Guardian in South Africa as well as Alpha Media Holdings, publishers of four newspaper titles […]
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This article was first published in Chimp Reports. Print media entrepreneurs have been urged to embrace the social media platforms Twitter and Facebook among others to grow their revenues “instead of looking at new media as a threat.” With increased access to online media content in Africa eating into print revenues, there have been concerns […]
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This article was first published in Daily Monitor. Kampala- Leaders staying in power for long is detrimental to people’s basic freedoms and the development of institutions, a renowned Zimbabwean media entrepreneur and publisher has said. Speaking during a public lecture yesterday, Mr Trevor Ncube, the owner of the South Africa-based Mail & Guardian media group, […]
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