Media Hack is a personal project of Alastair Otter, a long-time journalist and geek. Alastair is editor of IOL, the online publishing arm of Independent Newspapers Limited in South Africa.

The world of media is changing, rapidly, and technology is starting to play a significantly greater role in the production, dissemination and consumption of news. Media Hack is a small project looking at how technology is changing news and how journalists, editors and publishers can make the most of these exciting times.

Media Hack is not definitive, it is simply one person’s record of the changing media environment.

About me

I have worked in media for more than 20 years. During that time I have worked in mainstream print dailies,independent news websites and in magazines. Publications I have worked for include The Star, Business Report, ITWeb, MyBroadband, Sunday Independent and I have written for many websites and magazines.

I also founded and published Tectonic, an independent open source web publication, for close on nine years. And allied to that I published a print magazine of the same which ran for two years.