Tim Modise to interview top international media veteran James Gaines at MPASA Media Summit
 The Magazine Publishers’ Association of South Africa is thrilled to announce that it has secured a keynote interview with international media veteran, James R. Gaines, for South Africa’s first annual MPASA Media Summit.
James R. Gaines is a distinguished journalist, editor, publishing executive and media consultant. He is the founder of a multimedia publishing company, Story River Media, and was editor-in-chief at the first multimedia online publication, FLYP. His reinvention of Life magazine, while acting as managing editor, won him widespread acclaim, and a position at Time magazine, saw him not only double magazine profits, but also win numerous journalistic awards. To date, he is the only person to have ever run three (People, Life, Time) Time Inc. publications simultaneously. He has consulted to various media companies and regularly tweets and blogs about the evolution of media.
The Media Summit, to be held on 11 November 2010 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, aims to bring local and international media industry leaders together, and has already attracted some of the leading names in South African media and advertising to speak on its various panels.
Jonathan Harris, chairman of the MPASA Media Summit , says: “I am very pleased that James will be our featured international keynote interviewee. He is a well-respected opinion leader internationally and has unique insight into the future of our industry through his extensive work with traditional print and multimedia.”
Harris is equally pleased that Tim Modise has agreed to participate at the Summit, by conducting the interview with Gaines for the event. “Tim has become a local icon on the South African media scene, and I am sure that this interview will be one of the highlights of the Summit,” he says.
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