Gavin Stewart, founding editor of Cue, remembers its inception and looks at where the newspaper finds itself 25 years on.
Not everyone loved Cue from the start or forever afterwards. But the Festival daily was fated to be a best seller from day two.
We had to get only two things right: persuading the country's top reviewers (and editors) that Cue should print their reviews before their own newspapers, and producing a paper nine nights in a row in time for breakfast.
Standard Bank had offered to sponsor a daily newspaper if Rhodes' Department of Journalism and Media Studies could produce it. Don Pinnock borrowed a Desk Top Publishing (DTP) system (then th
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