#12 FreeSpeak: Adapting (or not) to the hard new realities for the

#12 FreeSpeak: Adapting (or not) to the hard new realities for the print media

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How are Namibian newsrooms, their managers and editors, adapting (or not) to the hard new realities for the print media? And are young journalists being treated badly in the process? This is the focus of today’s Freespeak podcast, and guests, Max Hamata, owner and editor of Confidente newspaper, and Ronelle Rademeyer, news editor of Die Republikein and Secretary General of the Editors Forum of Namibia (EFN)weigh in on this topical discussion.

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