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Chris Roper

Chris Roper

Chris Roper is an award-winning columnist and blogger, and the Editor-in-Chief of 24.com.
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RT @NICKolausBAUER: Its official: @Julius_S_Malema is going nowhere... according to the #ANCYL http://mg.co.za/article... via @mailandguardian
RT @ferialhaffajee: "@News24: ANCYL distances itself from video..."Aaah, the rats quit the sinking ship. Fair weather friends, J-baby.
the #5GumExperience music events have some great SA bands. The Plastics, Ashtray Electric, Desmond and the Tutus. I'd go just for them.
music to chew on RT @5GumSA: Applyl for tix to the next #5GumExperience feat. Two Door Cinema Club, click here > https://www.facebook.com/5GumSA
RT @antonyaltbeker: In Philadelphia, politically-connected barons want to take over the newspapers. Lessons for SA? via @NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2012...
RT @karenjeynes: It's a hard life, tweeting from behind the irony curtain.
a pleasing diss RT @Raw_Ram: -> Please don't use a term like 'the man'. It presumes all authority is masculine. I stick it to The Person.
RT @CharlieBeckett: Telegraph's Guy Black says even anti-terrorism laws are now being used against journalists #mediafuture #leveson
That terrible story of the Soweto youth shot by a cop, but with some M&G insight. http://mg.co.za/article...
warning! PRT @NewspaperWorld: If you don't have a statutory right to get information from people in power, you get a "patronage" system
RT @NewspaperWorld: .@CharlieBeckett: Media is a disruptor. If we always fixate on doing no harm, we're also in danger of doing no journalism #MediaFuture
Can someone recommend good online video stats software?
RT @5GumSA: Just letting y'all know we'll be announcing the #5GumExperience ticket winners NEXT Thursday the 23rd via e-mail & SMS.
good people to follow if you're interested in news RT @NewspaperWorld: We're starting 1st session at UNESCO #MediaFuture conference now.
As reliable as any other. It's always up to the reader RT @bronmaree1978: would you say that social media is a reliable news source?
“@USEmbPretoria: Via Guardian's @SmithinAfrica: 'Malawi: Africa's 'warm heart' feels chill of creeping dictatorship': http://t.co/zfOgROhZ”
what's wrong with that? “@HermLategan: Can you believe that their is actually a job description called Social Media Intern. Bah!”
RT @chrislbecker: "If voting changed anything, the [government would] make it illegal." ~Emma Goldman.
Follow these guys,they're doing a celebration of our constitution RT @WeThePeople_ZA: Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/WeThePe...
RT @WeThePeople_ZA: Request to sane South Africans: we need you to drown out the right wing loons on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/WeThePe...
Here's a Storify of a panel I participated in at #SocialOgilvy yesterday. http://storify.com/OgilvyJ...
now this is cool. music/africa RT @kojobaffoe: please check out my new little side project http://africartistry.com/
Just booked for Sept's World Editors Forum in Kiev. So looking for useful biz meetings, contact me. http://www.wan-ifra.org/events...
RT @NicDawes: For updates from DA v Zuma in Bloem, follow @NirenT
And we still remember it. Mark of a great magazine cover. Kate now edits Women's Health, bit of a waste of a great editor.
3000 dying a day. Phew. “@BobSkinstad: “@adamwerbach: There are more Chinese smokers than there are Americans. http://t.co/geFSEnKl””
wacky luck “@kylevanblerk: Jamie Oliver finds Joy Division and New Order master tapes in his restaurant basement. http://t.co/RTfwuGlz”
RT @TrevorNcube: Excellent RT @staffordmasie: Boom! "we need to imagine the fundamental enterprise anew for the social era" http://blogs.hbr.org/cs... @TrevorNcube
My top 10 comic acts of all time - French and Saunders are up there. Crazed.
FNB is really winning my heart “@geniusboywonder: FNB opens up to 22seven http://www.techcentral.co.za/fnb-ope... via @zite
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