Business Day
Business Day is South Africa's main financial and business daily newspaper, published by Arena Holdings. It focuses on companies, markets, economics and national politics for a professional and investor readership.
Business Day at a glance
- Country
- South Africa
- Region
- Southern Africa · Africa
- Kind of outlet
- Business daily
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- businessday.co.za ↗
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How Crosswire groups Business Day
Crosswire groups Business Day as Centrist for comparisons within South Africa's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In South Africa, Mail & Guardian is listed as Left-leaning — so you can open Business Day beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Business Day sits in South Africa's press
Business Day is one of 6 outlets tracked in South Africa and the only business daily tracked there. By outlets tracked, South Africa ranks first of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Africa hub, which lists 178 outlets in all.
Across Africa, Crosswire tracks 4 of the 30 business dailies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Business Day outside South Africa, starting with Southern Africa, are Expansão (Angola), Togo First (Togo) and Addis Fortune (Ethiopia). Opening one of them beside Business Day is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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