Do a Doodle4Google![](https://biz-file.com/b/1004/45344.jpg?1) As football fever begins to grip Africa and the rest of the world, Google recently launched its Doodle4Google 'I love football' competition. Google doodles are variations on the official Google logo, usually involving a clever manipulation of the letters of the search engine's name. School children between the ages of four and 17 in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa as well as other countries globally are invited to participate with the chance to have one's work featured on the search engine's global home page for the whole of 11 July, the day of the 2010 FIFA World Cup final. National winners will also have his or her design displayed on their respective country's Google home page for a full day during the World Cup. Another global event to be celebrated worldwide is World Press Freedom Day coming up on 3 May. Malawi's journalists have already got the ball rolling with their celebrations separated into three events across Mzuzu, Lilongwe and Blantyre. The first event was held over the weekend in Mzuzu and hosted John Warner, public affairs officer at the US Embassy to Malawi. There is no real freedom in any country without press freedom as the right to access information and to be an informed citizen forms the premise upon which human rights and social development are based. African newspaper execs have been invited by WAN-IFRA, the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and the Norwegian School of Management to participate in a global survey that seeks to better understand and quantify newspaper companies' responses to challenges across the newspaper company value chain. The survey is part of the second annual World Newspaper Future and Change Study and as a way of thanking survey respondents for their contribution, WAN-IFRA plans to send them the final report following the World Newspaper Congress in Beirut in June 2010. Ciao, Sindy Peters, Africa editor
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![](https://biz-file.com/c/1004/48357.jpg) JOHANNESBURG: FIFA is expecting a spectator turnout of between 95 and 97 percent to the upcoming World Cup - numbers also achieved in Germany in 2006. The world football body is also confident that the more than 300 000 tickets left for the tournament will be sold out before kick-off on 11 June. Read more >> [Michael Hamlyn] Kallie Kriel, chief executive of the AfriForum pressure group and the lone ranger riding to the defence of the Afrikaner's heritage once more, has complained about the World Cup adverts on radio and television that allow Bloemfontein and Pretoria to be called Mangaung and Tshwane. Read more >>Design
[Janine Erasmus] Google South Africa is getting in on the 2010 FIFA World Cup action by inviting local school children to enter their football-themed Google logo into an international Doodle4Google competition and stand a chance not only to win enticing prizes, but to have their entry displayed on the search engine's home page. Read more >>Advertisement:![](https://biz-file.com/b/1004/44517.gif?1) Exhibitions
German exhibition organiser of EuroMold, Direct Exposition Managing and Trading (DEMAT GmbH), has announced the launch of afrimold 2010. The exhibition will be held at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa from 16 - 18 August 2010. Read more >>Media
[Gregory Gondwe] Malawian journalists have started celebrating World Press Freedom Day, which falls on 3 May every year. Organisers of the event, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi), said a tight budget has forced them to organise the celebration in three parts. The first event took place on 24 April 2010 in Mzuzu and will be followed by a Lilongwe-based event on 1 May 2010. Read more >>WASHINGTON, DC: The winners in the 2010 Daniel Pearl Awards were announced on Saturday, 24 April 2010 at the sixth Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. A collaborative series by four European news outlets about toxic waste dumping in Africa and an exposé by a freelancer on payoffs by US military contractors to the Taliban were awarded the Outstanding International Investigative Reporting award. Read more >>A newspaper editor died at a jail in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde on Thursday, 22 April 2010, after reportedly being denied medical attention for a high blood pressure condition. Germain Ngota, the managing editor of the newspaper Cameroon Express, had been detained in March along with two reporters for alleged fraud and use of false documents. Read more >>Newspapers
AFRICA Call for African newspaper survey participants![](https://biz-file.com/c/1004/48346.jpg) The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), University of Central Lancashire, UK, and Norwegian School of Management are preparing their second annual World Newspaper Future and Change Study, and are calling on African newspaper executives to take a survey about their company's business strategy and ability to change with the demands of the market. The survey forms part of the World Newspaper Future and Change Study report to be revealed at the 63rd World Newspaper Congress in Beirut in June 2010. Survey respondents will receive the final World Newspaper Future & Change Study report following congress. The survey is being conducted in multiple languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Chinese and Japanese. The English version is available at www.surveymonkey.com/s/wnfcs2010. ![](https://biz-file.com/c/1004/48344.jpg) Rainer Esser, MD of Germany's Die Zeit, will share his views on what leads to successful publishing at the 2010 World Newspaper Congress, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, from 7 to 10 June next. The congress, the 17th World Editors Forum and the Info Services Expo 2010 are organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and hosted by the An-Nahar newspaper. Read more >>Online Media
![](https://biz-file.com/c/1004/48353.jpg) WASHINGTON: Music fans who were too young to experience 1969's "Summer of Love" - or can't remember it - can now relive the period and more online through the archives of Rolling Stone magazine. Read more >>Retail
[Dumisani Ndlela] Retail group OK Zimbabwe, is expecting to double its revenues after re-launching its grand challenge which had been suspended two years ago due to an unprecedented economic crisis in the country. Read more >> PRETORIA: South Africa remains committed to regional economic integration in Africa and the country's economic policy will continue to promote free trade in the continent. This was a message from International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashaba during her department's Budget Vote on Thursday, 22 April 2010. Read more >>The World Bank's private sector arm announced on Wednesday, 21 April 2010, that it will help fund a Chinese investment in Tanzania. The International Finance Corporation has agreed to provide ten million US dollars to partly finance the construction of a small commercial complex in Dar es Salaam by a Chinese company and a local NGO. Read more >>Research
![](https://biz-file.com/c/1004/48288.jpg?r=1) Vision Africa market research company in Namibia has appointed Maxwell Chivasa as account director. Maxwell will be responsible for developing the portfolio of services in Zimbabwe, and neighbouring countries, such as Zambia and Botswana. Read more >>"Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along." - Hugh Allen
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