Daily Voice (South African newspaper)
Daily Voice
The Daily Voice is Western Cape tabloid which is distributed daily and published by Independent Newspapers.
Daily Voices team of Journalists
The executive editor of the Daily Voice is Karl Brophy. Brophy was previously a spin doctor for the Irish Government and worked for the Daily Mirror in London, the Irish Examiner and the Irish Independent.[1]
The News Reporters Vincent Cruywagen Megan Baa djies Bianca Du Plessi
Entertainment Reporter Tarryn Solomons Sport Reporters
Julia Stewart Simone Stone Paul Walker Steve Griffits Rob Harris (Daily Voice, 12 April, 2011)
About the Daily Voice
The Daily Voice was launched on the 16 March 2005 in the Western Cape selling at the price of R1.50. [2]
“Sex, scandal, skinner, sport’ is what the Daily Voice is all about and it is what its readers want to read about. The Daily Voice does not pay to use wire services to rely on national and international news for their daily output, instead they have a team of local reporters, to create stories which are original and produced for their specific audience.[3].The Daily Voice focuses mainly on local news to make up the bulk of their tabloid; it does this by depending greatly on the local community for leads. The Daily Voice has phone lines which are dedicated to locals, whereby they can phone in and report their stories.[4] The motto of the Daily Voice is “ons skrik vir niks” which is Afrikaans and in English it means “we are not scared of anyone” and Karl Brophy maintains the idea that the Daily Voice accommodates the socio-economic classes who have perhaps been left out by the rest of the country’s newspapers.[5]
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The Daily Voice can also be recognised as a people’s paper in the sense that there is a section where readers can share their views on stories by sending a sms to the Daily Voice.
The Audience
The Daily Voice attracts a dominated Cape Coloured[6] community . As Karl Brody says that himself and his team of journalists provides a service to the socio-economic classes who have not previously been franchised by South Africa’s newspapers. The audience of the Daily Voice speak a mixture of English and Afrikaans which is typical of the Cape Coloureds and this is why the Daily Voice writes in a multi-lingual way.
Controversy
Page 3 of the Daily Voice depicts a naked woman on it which has caused quite a stir amongst many as many people see it as though the Daily Voice is degrading women to sex symbols and this has caused various complaints and disapproving comments [7] . In response to this the chief executive Tony Howard, of the Daily Voices publishing house, Independent Newspapers has said that sex will be a key element, as with all tabloids, but it will compliment rather than dominate other key selling parts. [8]
References
- ^ "The Daily Voice and the return of the Coloured repressed". Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ^ Wasserman, Herman (2010). Tabloid Journalism in South Africa. Lansdowne: UCT Press.
- ^ "The Daily Voice and the return of the Coloured repressed". Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ^ "The Daily Voice and the return of the Coloured repressed". Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ^ http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/another-day-another-tabloid-1.238901. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
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