According to the South African Audience Research Foundation's official All Media Products Survey (AMPS), The New Age had a readership of about 39,000 in January–December 2011, about 87,000 in July–June 2011/2012,[10] and about 107 000 in January–December 2012.

[13] In October 2012 the editorial cartoonist, Jeremy Nell (AKA JERM), was fired by the editor for cartoons that contained "political judgements or statements".

- Gwede Mantashe, ANC secretary general[15] In January 2013 it became known that public corporations (such as Transnet (transport), Telkom (telecoms) and Eskom (electricity)) had funded "New Age Business Breakfasts" – platforms for prominent individuals – for millions of Rands.

[16] The opposition leader Helen Zille subsequently withdrew from a scheduled briefing at one of these breakfasts, which The New Age reported on, casting her in an unfavourable light.

During the run-up to President Jacob Zuma's March 2017 firing of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan - who had previously actively resisted the pro-Zuma Gupta family's continued and repeated attempts at state capture of the treasury, Eskom and other State-owned Enterprises - ANN7 ran repeated and aggressive propaganda campaigns to discredit the minister, often using incomplete or fabricated evidence.

The channel was fiercely criticised for spreading biased and fake news in a bid to undermine the Finance Minister, and paint the President in a more favourable light.