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Live Mag SA in Arise Mag

Gavin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:18:35 +0000

Nicola Daniels: Live SA’s editor in CitiPress

Gavin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:56:52 +0000

From yesterday’s Citypress newspaper, Live Magazine South Africa’s editor Nicola Daniels is called ‘the future of media’.

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Live Mag SA coverage in the Sunday Times

Gavin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:44:25 +0000

Sunday Times, December 4th 2011

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Behind the scenes at Live Mag SA

Gavin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:25:40 +0000

Meanwhile, while most of the team were beavering away producing issue one, seven intrepid recruits, mainly from Khayelitsha, were busy working on shooting, editing and filming video content for the launch of Live Magazine SA’s YouTube channel.

Every week they’ll be uploading video specials: both related content from the print version and exclusive one-offs… check out their look behind the scenes at our HQ here

Subscribe now at www.youtube.com/LiveMagSA

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Issue one: The Finish Line

Gavin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:46:17 +0000

I don’t know what to make of issue 1 yet. Seeing the spreads go up on the wall of our office over the last seven days has been exhilarating, painful, stressful, long. The finish doesn’t resolve itself quickly – seemingly endless processions of correction and amendments. Despite going through this process countless times before, it never seems to get any easier… and for our young team, it’s the first time.

But on Friday afternoon at around 5pm, we finally signed off the last page and there, in front of our eyes, had appeared a complete magazine. Too tired to celebrate properly, we made peace with the fact that there was nothing much more we could do apart from try and have a relaxing weekend then prepare the magazine for print on Monday morning.

Here’s a sneak peak of what’s inside…

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Livity at 10

Gavin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:05:26 +0000

Amidst the frenzied final stages of Live Magazine issue one’s final production stages, I snuck away for a week in London to be part of Livity’s 10^th birthday away days, which happened only a few days after the incredible news that Livity were named Ernst and Young’s Social Enterprise of the Year for 2011

Apart from the excitement of seeing all my London colleagues again for two days in the Somerset countryside, we set some BHAGs (“big hairy audacious goals”) which, among other things, included Live becoming an international youth title in multiple territories, published in every major language. Sounds outlandish now, but a few years ago setting up one international version of Live felt much the same, but now it’s about to happen.

The highlight for me came in mid-afternoon on the first day, when the whole company were invited into my room (Sam and Michelle, Livity’s co-founders, had amazingly, kindly, spoiled me by giving me the master bedroom at Halswell Hall, where we all stayed) for me to tell them the story of what had happened so far in our South African adventures.

Telling the story of Live SA so far to the assembled Livity ranks in my master bedroom at Halswell Hall in Somerset

It was a truly beautiful moment to share it with all the people who have been on the journey of Livity and Live for the last ten years. Here’s to ten more…

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Live SA: view from the inside

Nkuli — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:21:30 +0000

Nkuli Mlangeni: at the beating heart of the project

So, my name is Nkuli and I’m the Project Coordinator here at Live Magazine South Africa. I’ve had a lot of interesting jobs in the past – and some not so cool ones – but this has by far been the most coolest.

It’s been a whole lot of fun hanging with the Live crew in the past two weeks. The office went from being a plain ol’ boring office space to being a creative little joint with lots of funky images, flat plans and very busy walls.

I must say I was surprised to find out we’ve got another Grace Caddington fanatic in tha house: turns out little miss Ndu knows way more about fashion magazines than I thought. It also sounds like she got all the lowdown on who’s who in stiletto zoo.

And, I was freaked out a bit by Lauren and Roberto’s reaction when I showed them the Playstation games that they’re going to be playing for our reviews pages. They even came up with a genius idea to turn Gavin’s nothing office into a PS3 lounging area, with funky couches and a whole lot of other gaming gadgets that I’ve never heard of before.

Am really loving the energy and team spirit: thought it was so very sweet how our thoughtful editor Nicole went around collecting R5 from everyone to buy cake for Fezeka’s birthday celebration.

And then there’s the cover story debate, So….who’s going to be the lucky star to bless the first cover of Live SA. I keep hearing Trevor Noah, Locnville, Dj Sbu, Bonang, Gareth Cliff, Julius Malema… the list goes on. And all I’m saying is Trevor Noah is my guy.

Can’t wait to checkout the new logo that the design crew’s been working on, Xolisa’s comic strip, Lauren’s sheep head experience and all the other goodies that this lot are cooking up.

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Live Magazine SA: Day 3

Gavin — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:21:19 +0000

Day three saw the group stepping up a gear when Cosmopolitan maagazine’s Deputy Editor led a superb masterclass on how to put together a magazine: from the tone of voice and front cover, to the Pillars of Content and deadlines…

Cathy Lund on what makes a cover

Furious note-taking

Live Magazine SA's 'pillars of content'

Live's tone of voice

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Live Magazine South Africa: Day One

Gavin — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:21:38 +0000

140BBDO’s office in Bo-Kaap was filled with an extra level of noise and buzz today when 20 young people and a bunch of media mentors piled in for the first day of Live Mag SA’s induction week.

Intros on the morning of day one

Live Mag SA's first editor Nicola (right)

After getting to know everyone with a series of entertaining interviews, we fled to the board-room where I presented the whole background of Livity, Live Magazine and the ten year journey that took me and the Livity/ Live methodology from the backstreets of Brixton to the southern tip of Africa.

Presenting the story of Livity (full version)

Rahul, Celeste and Albert from Live UK then presented how they put the UK edition together, before we rounded off the day creating portraits of who our typical readers were…

Creating audience profiles for SA readers

All photos by Chris Saunders

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Live Magazine South Africa: the new recruits

Gavin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:30:51 +0000

The Live Magazine SA team: (from l to r) Nana, Xolani, Cristal, Nicola and Lauren

Twenty one young people will be walking in to our office in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, next Monday to start a journey that I hope will be life-changing for everyone involved. They are the first ever Live Magazine South Africa team. A diverse group from all across the Cape, with a range of backgrounds and abilities, but all driven by the need for experience, to taste the working world, and to become the voice of youth for their generation.

Competition for places was fierce, despite this being a voluntary opportunity. And for issue one, we are creating a core team which includes some young people who have some skills and experience, but matching this with a regular outreach programme to outposts in outlying townships to make sure there are weekly opportunities for grassroots involvement and contributions, including the Ikamva Live contributors; with the core team acting as peer mentors.

Get to know: the Live Mag SA team meet together for the first time at El Burro in Greenpoint

These 21 will be the core brains behind creating the first issue from top to bottom, assisted in their first week by Rahul Verma (editorial mentor) and Celeste Houlker (Editor) from Live Magazine UK, who will be flying out from London on a skills-transfer mission.

Week one will see us getting to know each other and talking through the history of the magazine and Livity UK, who our audience is, how the process works, why we’re doing this and, ultimately, what we are going to put in the magazine. Cathy Lund, deputy editor of Cosmopolitan, will be spending two days helping us to put the issue plan together; Chris Saunders will be talking about his career and overseeing the commissioning and shooting of photography; while Lynne Stuart and Greer Valley will be overseeing design, layout and illustration.

But, most importantly, the 21 young people who turned up bright-eyed, bushy tailed and on time for a welcome lunch yesterday, will be in charge, and this truly is their turn to show the world what the young people of South Africa are made of.

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