Pretoria, 13 November 2013. The construction industry is one of the most visible sectors in South African media, according to Media Tenor research. A recent scandal rocked the industry as construction firms were fined collective penalties totalling R1,46 billion for collusive and anti-competitive behaviour. The industry managed to navigate the scandal with minimal reputational damage when compared to the image of the international banking sector after the 2008 global financial crisis.

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“Coffee has extremely strong visibility at times,” says Racheline Maltese, a researcher at Media Tenor, “but this visibility is inconsistent, suggesting that investors can use spikes in coverage in the media to take advantage of the market movements that often accompany increased visibility for an investment object.”

Despite a long-term trend that has shown quoted analysts becoming more negative on coffee since July 2012, the trend seems to finally be reversing according to ...

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“Corn holds a unique place in the commodities space,” says Racheline Maltese, a researcher at Media Tenor. “While it is impacted by controversial food product speculation, its performance as an investment is also heavily tied to energy and livestock-related concerns, painting a complex picture that media sentiment can help us understand.”

Despite past strong enthusiasm on the crop, financial analysts are now almost uniformly negative on corn as an investment, and predictions...

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In 1989, Mr. Neuman was the first of his peers to question the status quo of media research. He recognized that existing models for understanding the effects of communication fell short in accounting for the context-dependent phenomenon of real-world cues and individual experiences that were not easily measured in labs. His landmark study, “The Threshold of Public Attention,” featured in Public Opinion Quarterly, was the first of its kind to measure the early stages of public awareness ...

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Despite commendable efforts from leading NGOs, governments, and human rights groups, the general public is still largely uninformed about the global reach and practice of human trafficking, also known as the global trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor, or the extraction of organs and tissues. However, journalists and opinion-leading media, also play a critical role in breaking the attention barrier of low salience issues. Thus, Media Tenor chose to ...

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