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Publisher: Id Magazine
Date: July 11 to July 25 1996
Features Editor: David South
Cover: Phillip Smith
Photos: Phillip Smith
Inside Haiti: Can the U.N. Help Remake a Country? from Id Magazine 1996.
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Publisher: Id Magazine
Date: June 13 to June 26 1996
Features Editor: David South
Investigative Reporter: Jayson MacLean
Cover: Gareth Lind
Illustrations: Charles George
White Noise: Musical Hatemongers Target the Mainstream
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I worked as a journalist for magazines and newspapers from 1991 to 1997 in Canada and the United Kingdom and as a radio host for a weekly spoken word interview programme, Word of Mouth (CKLN-FM). This included working as an investigative journalist for Now Magazine, “Toronto’s alternative news and entertainment source”, as a Medical and Health Correspondent for Today’s Seniors, and as an investigative journalist and reporter for two Financial Times newsletters, New Media Markets and Screen Finance.
From 2007, I researched and wrote stories for two United Nations publications: e-newsletter Development Challenges, South-South Solutions and magazine Southern Innovator. Links to a small sample of published stories by theme are below:
Health and Medical
African Health Data Revolution
African Technology Tackles Health Needs
Changing Health Care Careers a Sign of the Times
Feds Call for AIDS, Blood System Inquiry: Some Seniors Infected
Health Care on the Cutting Block: Ministry Hopes for Efficiency with Search and Destroy Tactics
Mobile Phone Microscopes to Revolutionize Health Diagnostics
Safe Healthcare is Good Business and Good Health
Take Two Big Doses of Humanity and Call Me in the Morning
Taking Medicine to the People: Four Innovators in Community Health
Thai Organic Supermarkets Seek to Improve Health
US Health Care Businesses Chasing Profits into Canada
Innovation and Innovators
Frugal Innovation Trend Meets Global South's Innovation Culture
Innovation from the Global South
Innovation Villages Tackling MDGs
Innovations in Green Economy: Top Three Agenda
Innovative Stoves to Help the Poor
Kenyan Mobile Phone Innovations
Next Generation of Innovation for the Grassroots
Technological Innovation Alive in Brazil
International Development
Philippine Conference Tackles Asia's AIDS Crisis
Starting from Scratch: the Challenge of Transition
State of Decay: Haiti Turns to Free-Market Economics and the UN to Save Itself
Traffic Signs Bring Safety to the Streets
Investigative Journalism
False Data Makes Border Screening Corruptible
New Student Group Seeks 30 Percent Tuition Hike
Somali Killings Reveal Ugly Side of Elite Regiment
Study Says Jetliner Air Quality Poses Health Risks: CUPE Takes on Airline Industry with Findings
Top Reporters Offer Military Media Handling Tips
Science
Affordable Space Programmes Becoming Part of South's Development
African Botanicals to be Used to Fight Against Parasites
African Digital Laser Breakthrough Promises Future Innovation
African Farming Wisdom Now Scientifically Proven
An Innovator's 'Big Chicken Agenda' for Africa
China Pushing Frontiers of Medical Research
New 3D Technology Makes Innovation Breakthough and Puts Mind Over Matter
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By David South
Flare Magazine (Toronto, Canada) 1992
Time Machines
While many designers are telling us to don platform shoes and love beads, the man behind London-based Hi-Tek watches is looking even further back in time - drawing his inspiration from classic visions of the future.
Hi-Tek’s stainless steel timepieces bring to mind early futuristic films such as Lang’s Metropolis and Chaplin’s Modern Times with their grotesque exaggerations of modern machinery. That era’s confusion, fear, or simple wonderment at new technology influenced everything from toasters to steam trains.
For the equally economically and technologically turbulent ‘90s, Hi-Tek designer Alexander has captured this sense of techno-wonder with watches, sunglasses, and other hip accessories. One watch looks as if a Cuisinart hit it, leaving gears strewn across the face. Another has a retractable lid like an astronomer’s observatory. Yet another tells time with the blinker of a radar screen. Despite their made-exclusively-for-James-Bond appearance, all cost less than $190. Available at Possessions in Montreal, Body Body in Toronto, and D and R in Vancouver.
By David South
The Financial Post Magazine (Toronto, Canada), May 1992
Too Black
They’ve sold their hip clothing designs out of their basement and out of the back of their car. Now the young designers and marketers behind Toronto’s Too Black Guys can boast that their wares are being sold out of film-maker Spike Lee’s shop in Brooklyn, as well as five other funky U.S. stores from Washington to L.A.
Neither of the co-owners studied fashion - Adrian, 24, holds a BA in economics and Robert, 23, studied marketing at community college. Still, they have designed their own T-shirts, jeans, baseball caps and sweatshirts, and the message is at least as important as the medium.
“They forgot to ask my name and called me negro,” reads a typical shirt. Earl Smith, the manager at Lee’s Brooklyn shop, says he loves the clothes but adds that customers often ask his staff to explain what the thought-provoking garments mean.
Other stories from the 1990s:
Aid Organization Gives Overseas Hungry Diet Food
Artists Fear Indifference From Megacity
The Big Dump: CP's New Operational Plan Leaves Critics with Questions Aplenty
Casino Calamity: One Gambling Guru Thinks The Province Is Going Too Far
Do TV Porn Channels Degrade and Humiliate?
The Ethics of Soup: Grading Supermarket Shelves - For Profit
False Data Makes Border Screening Corruptible
Freaky - The 70s Meant Something
Is the UK Rushing to Watch TV Porn?
Land of the Free, Home of the Bored
New Student Group Seeks 30 Percent Tuition Hike
Oasis Has Arrogance, A Pile of Attitude and the Best Album of 1994
Peaceniks Questioning Air-raid Strategy in Bosnia
Philippine Conference Tackles Asia's AIDS Crisis
Playboy ‘is not for sad and lonely single men’
Porn Again: More Ways to Get Off, But Should We Regulate the Sex Industry?
Somali Killings Reveal Ugly Side of Elite Regiment
Starting from Scratch: The Challenge of Transition
State of Decay: Haiti Turns to Free-market Economics and the UN to Save Itself
Study Says Jetliner Air Quality Poses Health Risks
Swing Shift: Sexual Liberation is Back in Style
Take Two Big Doses of Humanity and Call Me in the Morning
Taking Medicine to the People: Four Innovators In Community Health
Top Reporters Offer Military Media Handling Tips
Traffic Signs Bring Safety to the Streets
TV's Moral Guide in Question - Again
UK Laws on Satellite Porn Among Toughest in Europe
Undercurrents: A Cancellation at CBC TV Raises a Host of Issues for the Future
US Health Care Businesses Chasing Profits into Canada
Will the Megacity Mean Mega-privatization?
Will Niagara Falls Become the Northern Vegas?
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The onslaught of digital media in the developed countries of the world regularly brings pronouncements of the death of the traditional newspaper. But this assumption of digital triumph misses out on the reality in countries across the global South.
As incomes rise and literacy levels go up, so does the desire to consume news and information. And while many are jumping straight to online and mobile phone sources, just as many are enjoying more traditional print media offerings like magazines and newspapers.
India boasts both a fast-growing economy and the largest number of paid-for newspapers in the world. The print media industry in India has seen phenomenal growth since 2005, with the number newspaper titles increasing by 40 percent to 2,700 (World Association of Newspapers). The two factors driving this growth in newspapers are rising literacy and a booming economy
The World Association of Newspapers found China leads the world for newspaper subscribers, with 93.5 million readers a day. India is second. It is estimated the Indian newspaper industry will generate US $3.8 billion in revenues in 2010, a 13 percent growth rate over the last five years.
Estimates place growth in the newspaper industry in the next four years at 9 percent a year, to US $5.9 billion (KPMG).
Part of the reason India is defying the decline in newspaper numbers and readership seen in developed countries is poor internet penetration across the country. Because of this, only 7 percent of the population uses the web for information. And the country’s high number of illiterates (just 65 percent of the population can read) means even if many could afford a newspaper, they couldn’t use it.
According to Amar Ambani, head of research at India Infoline Group, “Unlike the West where the internet publishing and advertising has significantly hit the print media, the Internet threat to print media is still in its nascent stage in India, given the low penetration of computers and adequate bandwidth across the country.”
Newspapers are also growing in a highly competitive market exploding with new television channels on cable and satellite and other media distractions like mobile phone applications.
The newspapers (http://www.world-newspapers.com/india.html) are a strong reflection of how much the economy has changed in the past decade. They contain advertisements for property, mobile phones, cars and dating services.
Cost is also a critical element in their success: at only four rupees each (US $0.09 cents), many Indians buy several newspapers at a time for their home. The publications are able to charge so little because of the health of the advertising revenue coming in. Newspaper advertising in India increased by 30 percent between January and Match 2010 alone, the quickest jump in ads for the Asia-Pacific region (Nielsen India).
There is a hierarchy in the newspaper industry: English-language newspapers attract wealthier readers and can charge the most for advertising. But rising literacy rates combined with increasing personal wealth is fuelling growth in regional papers written in local languages. India has 22 official languages and English as an associate language. The country as a whole has about 33 different languages and over 2,000 local dialects. Hindi newspaper circulation rose from 8 million in the early 1990s to over 25 million in 2009.
The Times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com) is now the world’s largest circulation English-language newspaper, with 4 million readers. It uses this success to charge 10 times what regional papers can for advertising. At present, the regional newspapers’ bread-and-butter is mostly government-paid advertising.
But if trends continue as they are, then the tables will turn on big beasts like the Times of India. Regional papers will grow as people look for an opportunity to read in their own local language.
Flush with cash and confidence, Indian newspapers are also innovating new ways to advertise untried in other countries. Talking ads attached to the actual newspaper’s back pages caused a great stir when they were trialled in India recently (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/sep/28/newspapers-advertising). The talking ads for a car company delivered a sales pitch but also alarmed and annoyed many people because the talking ad wouldn’t stop talking.
Ambani puts the success of the Indian newspaper industry down to five factors: the economic boom in semi-urban and rural India; growing local content; more opportunity to grow the number of readers; rising advertising spending; and rising literacy as a result of rising secondary school enrolment. He believes students aged between 10 and 15 are getting the newspaper habit and they represent huge future growth in newspaper readers.
By David South, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions
Published: February 2011
Development Challenges, South-South Solutions was launched as an e-newsletter in 2006 by UNDP's South-South Cooperation Unit (now the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation) based in New York, USA. It led on profiling the rise of the global South as an economic powerhouse and was one of the first regular publications to champion the global South's innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers. It tracked the key trends that are now so profoundly reshaping how development is seen and done. This includes the rapid take-up of mobile phones and information technology in the global South (as profiled in the first issue of magazine Southern Innovator), the move to becoming a majority urban world, a growing global innovator culture, and the plethora of solutions being developed in the global South to tackle its problems and improve living conditions and boost human development. The success of the e-newsletter led to the launch of the magazine Southern Innovator.
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