Comprehensive Curriculum Vitae

Guy Berger

Title: Professor
Present position: Head of School of Journalism and Media Studies
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +27 46 603 7100
Cell: +27 82 801 1405
February 2009

Contents:

1. Summary profile 2
2. Demographic details 2
3. Awards, honours and fellowships 2
4. Education and dissertations 4
5. Media experience 5
6. Experience in teaching and media skills training 7
7. Professional involvement 12
8. Research experience 14
9. Post-graduate research theses supervised 16
10. Publications
10.1 Books and chapters 18
10.2 Journal articles 22
10.3 Newspaper, magazine and other journalism 26
10.4 Websites 28
11. Conference papers, special lectures and presentations 28
12. Other conferences and programmes attended 44
13. Consultancies and other activities 48
14. Other interests 48

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1. SUMMARY PROFILE: January 2009

Prof Berger’s commitment as a South African engaged in democratic media activities

has shaped his experiences in academia, media and journalism education. His research
and views are frequently sought out by journalists and government. He writes a
fortnightly column for the website of South Africa’s leading independent newspaper, the
Mail & Guardian. He was jailed as a political prisoner in South Africa (1980-1983) for his
anti-apartheid activism, and later forced into exile (1985-1990).

Berger has worked in newspapers, magazines and television, and as a trainer in

mainstream and community media. His service as a trustee in many media-related
organisations, and his decade of involvement in the South African National Editors
Forum are evidence of widespread recognition of his profile. In 2006 he became the first
academic to receive The Nat Nakasa Award for integrity in journalism – a prestigious
national South African journalism industry honour. He is widely known and respected for
his research, presentations, publications and journalism. He has written 40 books or
chapters in books, plus 50 journal articles, and delivered almost 200 presentations at
conferences and seminars.

2. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAILS:

Born: 1956.
Marital status: Married, two daughters

3. AWARDS, HONOURS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

2008:
 Appointed by the South African parliament as a member of the board of the
South African Media Development and Diversity Agency, a partnership between
government and the media industry.
 Chair of the board of Grocott’s Mail newspaper (Grahamstown, South Africa)
 Invited member of a Reference Team for the South African Review of
Government-wide Communication System (GCIS)
 Keynote address to Media Freedom day celebration, Lusaka.
 Convenor Judge (7th year running): South Africa’s national Mondi Shanduka
Newspaper Journalism Awards
 Judge: Caxton community newspaper awards (4 th year running)
 Member of Editorial Boards of the international journals: Journalism, Journalism
and Mass Communication Educator.

2007:
 Visiting Scholar at School of Journalism and Communication, University of
Queensland, Australia
 Guest at Poynter Institute, USA.

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  Winner of third prize for best research paper submitted to World Journalism
Education Congress, Singapore.
 Keynote speaker at:
o World Press Freedom Committee and UNESCO conference on press
freedom and the Internet, Paris.
o 8th International Symposium on Online Journalism, University of Texas,
Austin.
o 3rd Media and Society conference convened by SABC and South African
National Editors Forum, Johannesburg.
 Advisor to the “Africa Media Initiative” coalition, and to the Open Society
Institute’s Afrimap Survey of Public Broadcasting in Africa.

2006:
 First academic to win Nat Nakasa Award for integrity and courage in journalism,
from Print Media South Africa (PMSA), the South African National Editors’ Forum
(SANEF) and the Nieman Foundation.
 Judge in Telkom ICT Journalism Awards competition for fourth year running.

2005:
 Judge in SABC News Excellence Awards

2004:
 Bonnier guest professor at Institute for Journalism, Media and Mass
Communication, University of Stockholm.

2003:
 Made an Associate Member of the World Technology Network in recognition of
work on the Highway Africa conference over seven years.
 Judge in the US/SA Health Journalism Awards

2002:
 Awarded the honour of a Fellow of Print Media South Africa for service to the
newspaper industry.
 Winner of the Fulbright Alumnus Award. Funds were used for an exchange
between staff and students at Rhodes University and the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, out of which the award-winning website
www.alivingstage.org was produced.

2001:
 Scholarship to Poynter Institute, USA, to attend seminar on Leadership for Online
Newsroom Managers.
 Scholarship to attend events linked to (what was then named) the Western
Knight Center for Specialised Journalism Foundation events: Seminar “Making
the Transition: New Media Skills”, April 3-6; and “After the fall. New Media
publishing strategies 2001” – a conference convened by UC Berkeley Graduate

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 School of Journalism and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. April
6-7, UC Berkeley.
 Keynote speaker at conference of the National Community Radio Forum, and
also at SABC New Media Day event.

2000:
 Awarded a Fulbright African Research Fellowship, USA, and spent seven months
at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
 Scholarship to attend Freedom Forum Journalism Educators Forum, San
Francisco.

1999:
 Convenor of committee dealing with National Qualifications Framework that
represented Heads of Departments of communication and journalism
departments at SA technikons and universities.
 Convenor of SA National Editors Forum Education sub-committee (SANEF)
 SANEF nominee to the Media, Publishing, Printing and Packaging Sector
Education and Training Authority.
 Member (2nd consecutive year), Independent Broadcast Authority Committee
Monitoring and Complaints Committee.

1998:
 Sponsored delegate to conference of Public Service Broadcasters, Biarritz,
France.
 Sponsored delegate to World Television Forum, New York.
 Named as one of 50 people to know in New Media by the US-based Online
Journalism Review.

1996:
 Scholarship to Poynter Institute, USA, to attend seminar on Journalism
Education.
 Keynote address to Media Institute of Southern Africa, annual congress,
Mangochi, Malawi.
 Keynote address at launch of Grahamstown Community Radio.

1993:
 Scholarship to Poynter Institute, USA, to attend seminar on Alternative Media

1974-7:
 Winner of Daily Dispatch bursary, Rhodes University Department of Journalism.

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4. EDUCATION:

Qualifications:

1983 - 1989:
Doctor of Philosophy for thesis titled Social Structure and Rural Economic Development
(Rhodes University). Published by Cambridge University Press, 1992.

1982:
Bachelor of Arts Honours in Communication with distinction (University of South Africa).

1978:
Bachelor of Arts Honours in African political studies with distinction (Rhodes University).

1975 - 1977:
Bachelor of Journalism degree at Rhodes University with distinction in African political
studies.

1973:
Matriculation at Sandringham High School (Johannesburg) with distinction in English.

Dissertations:

1989: Ph.D thesis: Social structure and rural economic development, Rhodes
University.

1983: Aspects of Newspaper Discourse. Dissertation for Honours in Communication,

UNISA.

1980: The Political and Economic Significance of Trade Unions. Dissertation for
Honours in Political Studies, Rhodes University.

5. MEDIA EXPERIENCE

1994 - Present:

In June 1994, having come from the world of professional media, I was appointed
Professor and Head of Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes
University. However, since entering academia my involvement in producing media has
continued on various platforms:

I am a frequent writer of articles, and most regularly on "Converse", a fortnightly Mail &
Guardian column (http://www.mg.co.za/converse). I also maintain two blogs on media,
politics and journalism education (http://nml.ru.ac.za/blog/guy-berger;
www.thoughtleader.co.za/guyberger). In addition, I provide live news updates while

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attending conferences via the micro-blogging platform Twitter
(http://www.twitter.com/guyberger).

Further, I have been involved in various multi-media website productions, which are
listed later in this document. Examples of much other journalistic output are also
provided below. To them can be added the experiences at Rhodes of:

 Guest editing and/or publishing editions of Rhodes Journalism Review and JQ (a

quarterly newsletter).

 Editing Cue, a daily newspaper during the South African National Arts Festival in
Grahamstown ( 1995 - 1998).

 Chairing the board of the David Rabkin Project for Experiential Journalism
Training, the Rhodes University-owned company that publishes the Grocott’s
Mail newspaper.

1994:

Business Manager of South newspaper.

1992 - 1993:

Appointed as editor and chief executive officer of South, a weekly newspaper published
in the Cape Town region. As convenor of the Conference of Independent Editors in this
period, when the apartheid system was in the process of being dismantled, I oversaw
the "alternative press" joining the Newspaper Press Union, and the latter's subsequent
affiliation to the world press body, Fiej/WAN. In addition, I led the process which saw
the alternative/independent newspapers and magazines link up with the established
newspaper industry to launch the Independent Media Diversity Trust.

1991:

Editor of New Era magazine, an "alternative" current affairs publication.

1988 - 1990:

Diplomatic correspondent on the Morning Star, London, and regular foreign

correspondent for New Nation, Johannesburg.

1986 - 1987:

I set up and ran Afravision – a television production/distribution company based in

London, commissioning and supplying smuggled footage of South African resistance to
apartheid to international broadcasters. During this period I also became a regular
contributor to the weekly Southscan bulletin which is an influential international briefing

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on Southern Africa. In 1987/8, I researched and wrote a booklet on political
imprisonment in South Africa for the International Defence and Aid Fund.

1983 - 1985:

I spent these two years as media consultant and training officer at Media and
Resources Services, a community media centre in Johannesburg. In this capacity, I
served as co-ordinator of the Transvaal media committee of the internal anti-apartheid
movement, the United Democratic Front (UDF), and was also a member of the UDF's
national media committee. In addition, I was a regular contributor to, and part-time
sub-editor on, the student newspaper, Saspu National.

1980-1983:

Jailed as a political prisoner for anti-apartheid activism during this period, I was unable
to produce media, but I did use the time to earn an Honours degree in Communications
(by correspondence study).

1977 - 1980:

As a student during university vacations over this period, some eight months were spent
sub-editing and reporting on The Star newspaper in Johannesburg. In 1977, I also
initiated and edited a black community newspaper Izwi laseRhini - Grahamstown Voice.
I also worked on the Rhodes University student newspapers Rhodeo and Oppidan. In
addition, I published numerous feature articles in Work in Progress magazine.

6. EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING AND MEDIA SKILLS TRAINING

6.1 Leadership

Since becoming the head of the Rhodes School of Journalism and Media Studies, I
have overseen a major expansion and overhaul of the School:

 Staffing:
In 1994, there were seven fulltime academic staffers and this grew to 25 fifteen
years later (growth in administrative and project staff followed a similar pattern).
In this, I have played a leading role in securing sponsorship for the following
posts: a Director of the School’s New Media Laboratory, a Director for the
Highway Africa project, a Chair of Economic Journalism, a Chair of Media
Transformation, a Cyberpublisher instructor, a Chair of Cyberbroadcasting, a
Chair of Media and Democracy (since recognised as a UNESCO chair), a Chair
of Media and Information Society and a Chair of Media and Mobile
Communications. I have also helped secure other sponsored positions for the
School’s Highway Africa conference, three positions in the Sol Plaatje Media
Leadership Institute, and one alumni officer. I was further responsible for

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 activities that generated revenues to employ a schools’ outreach officer and a
School marketing officer.

I was responsible for setting up the Sol Plaatje Media Leadership Institute in
2002. During 2003, I led the process of the University purchasing the local
newspaper, Grocott's Mail, for the twin purposes of providing a practical
laboratory for students to learn journalism, media management and media
research, and to act as a vehicle to produce a quality journalism product for the
city of Grahamstown.

Earlier, in 1995, I initiated the New Media Lab (NML), and in 1996, I was
responsible for facilitating what seems to be the first online South African scholar
newspaper (“Grab”, including the first use of the IsiXhosa language online), along
with the country’s first online publication of a student magazine.
(http://grab.ru.ac.za/). I further initiated a project web site for journalism trainers
in southern Africa.

 Staff development:
In my capacity at Rhodes, I have helped arrange for staff to attend international
media conferences in Reunion, Melbourne, New York and San Francisco as well
as numerous local conferences. Over the years, I have also overseen lecturer
and student exchanges with Capilano College in Canada, Stockholm University
in Sweden and the Hogeschool Utrecht in the Netherlands. Under my leadership
at Rhodes, approximately 14 staff and senior students visited the University of
Norkopping in Sweden in 2002-5. I have personally attended a large number of
conferences and courses relevant to journalism and journalism training, and
been responsible for initiating conferences of journalism teachers in 1994, 2004
and 2005. (http://journ.ru.ac.za/j-schools/papers /sanef1.html;
http://journ.ru.ac.za/colloquium). The momentum of these colloquia continued in
2007 and 2008.

In 2005, the expansion of the Rhodes journalism program under my leadership

led to the conversion of what had been a “Department” into a “School”,
representing Rhodes University’s recognition of the growth and complexity of the
facility.

 Curriculum Development:
The number of specialisation options at Rhodes has been expanded with my
encouragement. These have grown to include writing, design, photojournalism,
radio, TV and New Media. In 2009 the School will offer eight fully-operating
degree programmes, compared to three when I arrived in 1994. My general
thrust has been to seek balance and integration between theory and practice-
related courses, as well as between internal and outreach activities.

In addition, I have been the initiating energy behind courses in Arts and Culture
Journalism, Media Leadership and Training, African Media Debates, Economic

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 Journalism, Investigative Journalism, a Masters Degree coursework-and-thesis
programme, and various Internet-related programmes.

 Facilities and resource centres:

As head at Rhodes, I led the conceptualising and fundraising to consolidate the
spatially fragmented components of the School into a new home called the
Africa Media Matrix. This impressive three-storey building and its linked
educational and outreach programmes came on stream in 2006. It is a state-of-
the-art teaching and learning facility, featuring cutting-edge technology and
vibrant media exhibits.

6.2 Fundraising

I fundraised almost R7m (US$1m) towards the direct costs of the Africa Media Matrix
building. In addition, I secured donations of R3m (US$.5m) to buy the Grocott’s Mail. I
raised the same sum in sponsorship to set up the New Media Lab, and again the same
amount to start the Sol Plaatje Institute. Over the years, I have also raised more than
R25m (US$4m) to set up sponsored Chairs and other positions in the School.

In addition, I have led the relationship-building which currently brings in more than
R20m (US3.5m) per annum to resource the many activities of the School. For example,
in 2003, and again in 2004, I fundraised for and initiated a co-ordinated approach to
student learning by means of coverage of the South African National Arts Festival on
multiple media platforms (see http://cue.ru.ac.za/). In 2004 I fundraised for another
website, produced by senior design students that covered ten years of telecoms in
South Africa. In 2005, I secured funding for development of an open-source Enterprise
Management System for small newspapers, and for online courses on ICT journalism.
In 2006, I secured funding from USAID for courses in investigative journalism.

Under my auspices, substantial new equipment has been acquired by the School
through university allocations and private sector fund-raising. Among other
achievements, I led processes that secured donations of five PowerMac computers, 60
second-hand PCs, and 40 new PCs with live Reuters feeds to them in the 2001-3
period. In 2008, I negotiated the use of 16 HD television cameras from the SABC.

The Biko Bursary Fund for disadvantaged students seeking to study journalism, which
was defunct in 1994, was revived by me. By 2006 it had drawn more than R2m
(US$.6m) in donations. Since then, I have secured numerous scholarships from the
Media Advertising Printing Publishing Packaging Sector Education and Training
Authority, Belgian Development Aid, MTN, UNESCO and School alumni, at an
estimated value of R20m (US$3m). I also successfully fundraised over many years for
the Biko Media Week competition, promoting journalism careers amongst school
learners, and for the Vulindlela programme which provided summer and winter school
support for disadvantaged students.

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In 2002, I raised resources for 10 students and journalists to cover the launch of the
African Union in Durban. The following year, I secured funding for five journalists and
five students to travel to Geneva to report from the UN's World Summit on the
Information Society. These activities gave rise to a project called the “Highway Africa
News Agency” which today continues similar, as well as additional, activities.

The wider Highway Africa project at the Rhodes School commenced as a conference in
1996, and has become an annual event ever since. Over the years I have helped
fundraise for the average R3m ($US425 000) p.a. budget for this gathering, as well as
more funding for capacity to manage the project and its many sub-projects. In its first
year, the conference attracted some 50 participants. Last year more than 730 people
attended from 42 countries (mostly in Africa), making it the largest annual gathering of
African journalists and educators on the continent.

In 2008, I co-ordinated a community news proposal named “Ziyafika – The news is

coming” which won a R4m grant (US$.63m) in the Knight Foundation News Challenge. I
raised the equivalent amount of money from MTN for a Chair of Media and Mobile
Communications to co-ordinate the project which commenced in 2008.

6.3 Promoting the School Profile:

In my role as an ambassador for the School, I have travelled extensively and developed
connections with an immense range of people. This has been amplified by extensive
personal work in distributing School publications and by securing significant coverage
for our efforts in the mainstream media.

I can also claim credit for many of the numerous visitors who have passed through the
School, including five annual council meetings of the SA National Editors Forum being
convened at the University.

An annual award for Courageous Journalism was initiated under my leadership in the
early period of South African democracy, and it continued for seven years thereafter. I
also initiated a major international conference on Freedom of Information in 1995, which
attracted significant attention (including an address by the country’s then-deputy
president Thabo Mbeki).

Successful staging of Highway Africa over the years, in which I have been centrally
involved, has made this event the world’s biggest annual gathering of African
journalists. Details are evident on the website: www.highwayafrica.com. I brokered a
partnership in 2003 with the public broadcaster, SABC, to co-host the event, which
generates enormous coverage for the event. In 2008, the conference exposed more
than 730 participants to the debates and training around new media, and to Rhodes
intellectual resources and study opportunities.

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6.4 Media advocacy

Since in 1997, I have led staff at the School in contributing to media policy matters as
well as serving individually as a public intellectual. Among my early activities in this
regard during the vital post-apartheid media transformation era were:

 Presenting a 1997 paper at a workshop of the Portfolio Committee on

Communications of the National Parliament, dealing with foreign ownership of
the press.
 Serving as a member of the 1997 Stakeholders Team drafting the Green Paper
and later the White Paper on Broadcasting,
 Drafting a report for the Independent Media Diversity Trust on sustainable media.
 Delivering for the second year running in 2003, an input at an East Cape
provincial parliament media seminar.

I have continued to work individually, or with colleagues in academia and industry, and
have compiled ten policy submissions to the South African parliament and other bodies
on media and freedom of expression matters. (Details are supplied within later sections
in this document.)

6.5 Leading in Outreach

The School during my headship has engaged in numerous community and industry
training programmes, many of which I have initiated or raised resources towards. One
was “Grab”, a schools-outreach media skills programme that is now named after the
murdered anti-apartheid activist and former journalist, Steve Bantu Biko.

Another is short courses for senior journalists from around southern Africa. In 1995, a
managed a training workshop for the investigative journalism programme, Carte
Blanche (in Mbabane, Swaziland). I also oversaw a leadership training programme for
Independent Newspapers. Between 1997 and 2002, I oversaw 12 short-courses for
senior journalists from SA Development Community countries. These services are now
delivered by the Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership, which I set up specifically for
this purpose. In 1999, I initiated and co-ordinated a part-time MA programme designed
to cater to working journalists. I have continued to personally teach sessions to media
practitioners within the MA and on many of the short courses.

Capacitating government communicators has been another area in which I have

contributed. In 1996/7, I taught government communications at five workshops with a
total of 60 senior civil servants in Bisho, South Africa, and a group of 20 civil servants
from the Western District Council of the Eastern Cape province in South Africa. I have
also contributed to the standards-generating process of the Government
Communications and Information Service (GCIS). In 2007, I was appointed to a team to
review the GCIS and continued this work through 2008.

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6.6 Previous leadership roles - 1991- 4:

Under my editorship at South, I succeeded in arranging numerous scholarships for staff

to attend training programmes both in South Africa and abroad. These included
newspaper and broadcast training in the UK, design training in Sweden, newsroom
management and advertising training in the USA, electoral reporting in Germany,
development reporting in Namibia and news reporting in Zambia. Sponsors ranged from
the US Information Service, Expressen newspaper in Stockholm, the Poynter Institute,
the British Council, the Thompson Foundation, the Commonwealth, and the German
embassy in South Africa.

6.7 Teaching experience:

My teaching while at Rhodes, both on degree programmes and in short courses

targeting industry, has been wide-ranging. It has covered: Media policy; South Africa
media history; Writing; Media leadership and pedagogy; African media debates,
Investigative journalism, media leadership, and ICT journalism.

In earlier years, I supervised South’s 12-month "Vukani journalism for beginners"

programme, which included four trainee interns in 1991, five in 1992 and six in 1993. In
addition, I designed a programme for a one year training course, titled “Financial
Journalism and the New South Africa”, a module of which was implemented with South
interns during 1993.

During 1990-1, as Editor at New Era and South, I conducted on-the-job training and
contributed to annual training courses arranged by the South Africa Students’ Press
Union over a three year period. From 1985 to 1990, I was a media skills instructor at the
Community Copy Art media centre, London. In 1989/90, I was part of a journalists'
consultancy group which undertook critical assessments of several South African
publications. In the years from 1983 to 1985, I was Training Officer at the Media and
Resources Services community media centre, Johannesburg.

Back in 1980, I was appointed as a junior lecturer in Journalism (Rhodes University).

The previous two years, I served as a Tutor in Political Studies (Rhodes University).

7. PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT:

I have been an active member of the SA National Editors Forum (SANEF) since its
inception in 1996, and have served on the council of the body ever since. In 2002, I was
elected as deputy chairperson of the organisation, and was re-elected in 2003. In 2008,
I was nominated as Eastern Cape regional convenor. On commission from SANEF, I
co-edited a handbook for editors in 2008 titled “The Extraordinary Editor”,
http://www.sanef.org.za/books/910528.htm

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Other work for SANEF includes:
 2008. Produced draft “Charter of rights and responsibilities” spelling out protocols
for policy and press at crime scenes, accidents, disasters and demonstrations.
http://nml.ru.ac.za/blog/guy-berger/2008/02/20/r-r-police-and-press.html
 2008. Co-drafted submission to parliament on the Broadcasting Act amendment
bill. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/sanefbill.doc
 2007. Developed draft position paper for SANEF submission to Ministerial Inquiry
into Intelligence Agencies. “No spying on journalists, no journalists as spies”.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Draft%20ideas%20for%20Sanef%20submission
%20to%20Inquiry%20into%20Intelligence%20Agencies.doc
 2007. Co-developed (with Jeanne Prinsloo) SANEF position paper to
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications concerning Film &
Publications Amendment Bill. “From thinking Protection, to emphasising
Preparation”. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/The%20media%20context%20of
%20children.doc
 2004. Produced “SANEF Guidelines on 'Confidential briefings and sources’”;
www.sanef.org.za/ethics_codes/sanef/.
 2004. Making an intervention on poverty: what we can do. Paper prepared for
SANEF Council, Durban, 30 May.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/sanefpoverty.doc
 2003: Compiled first draft of submission by SA National Editors Forum on
SABC's draft editorial policies.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/SanefonSABCpolicies.doc
 2002. Participant in direct submission to the Portfolio Commitee on
Communications on the Broadcasting Amendment Bill, 19 September.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/sanefbill.doc
 2002. Compiled document The SA National Editors Forum Comments on the
MDDA bill, which was submitted to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on
Communications. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/mddacommentssanef.doc
 2002. (With Andrew Kanyegerire) Wrote discussion paper titled What are the
media preconditions for an election to qualify as being "free and fair"? 24
February 2002 http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/Research/Democracy/election.htm

In 2007, the South African parliament appointed me, for a three-year term, to the board
of the Media Development and Diversity Agency, which is a partnership between
government and the media industry. The MDDA supports small-scale media initiatives
in South Africa with grants, research and capacity-building.

I have continued as Chair of the board of David Rabkin Project for Experiential
Journalism Training, publishers of Grocott’s Mail through 2004 to 2009.

From 1998 - 2000, I served as a director of the National Electronic Media Institute of
South Africa, a facility set up by the South African government’s Department of
Communications to address training backlogs in broadcast and new media.

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From 1994-1997, I was a trustee of the Eastern Cape News Agency. In 1995 I served
as a member of the Radio Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundation, and in 1996
I was shortlisted to the board of the SABC.

These involvements are reinforced by frequent phone-calls that I receive from working
journalists seeking advice about ethical and other professional challenges. As convenor
of the prestigious Mondi-Shanduka Newspaper Journalism Awards (now for the 8 th
consecutive year in 2009), the tradition is that I deliver the keynote speech at the annual
prize-giving ceremony about current strengths and weaknesses in the profession.

8. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

My research interests are: Media coverage of poverty, Multi-media and new media
issues, Information Society and Media policy issues, Journalism Education and the
Impact of Media Training, South Africa's Alternative Press, African Media and
Democracy, Freedom of Information legislation, Race and the Media, Media
Development.

I have published widely in these areas as the publications list later in this document will
attest.

Research enterprise:
2006-2007: Managed a project for UNESCO mapping journalism-training facilities in
Anglophone and Lusophone African countries. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-
URL_ID=24846&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

2006. Oversaw a major survey on the media landscape in five Southern African
countries as part of the BBC World Service Trust project “African Media Development
Initiative”. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/specials/1552_trust_amdi/index.shtml

2005-2007. Managed a project (by MA students) into knowledge management in

newsrooms. Oversaw a project for UNESCO reviewing media law in ten African
countries. Published as Media Legislation in Africa – a comparative legal survey, and
online at: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-
URL_ID=25478&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

2004. Designed and fundraised for two research projects – one for the NGO “Catalysing
Access to ICTs in Africa” (Catia) on the coverage of ICT policy issues in six African
countries, and one for the International Development Research Centre on the use of
ICTs in eight southern African newsrooms. These resulted in two books:
From the margins to mainstream: African ICT reporting comes of age, and Absent
Voices, Missed Opportunities. Media silence on ICT policy issues in six African
countries (details in section 10.1 below)

2003. Initiated a joint research programme into media representation of poverty with the
Media Monitoring Project, a Johannesburg-based NGO. This information was

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incorporated into a presentation to the SA National Editors Forum and various articles
(see below)

2002. Oversaw research into software used by Southern African media. Formerly online
at: www.highwayafrica.ru.ac.za/archive/2003/TECH%20SURVEY%20DATA.XLS).

2001. Researched media and democracy; impact assessment for short courses;
convergence; and journalism school accreditation systems, under the auspices of
Fulbright African Research Fellowship and associated project: “African Journalism
Training in an Age of Globalisation and the Internet”. This resulted in various outputs,
including the journal article Theorizing the media-democracy relationship in Southern
Africa, and the books Configuring convergence: southern African websites looking at
American experience, plus It’s the training that did it (details below).

2000 – 2001. Investigated media websites in the Southern African Development

Community as a research project funded by the South African National Research
Foundation. This resulted in a report titled Hanging in and holding out: struggles of
SADC news websites. Grahamstown: Rhodes University New Media Lab. Online at:
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/Research/New%20Media/sadcsites.htm

1998. Supervised research survey into editorial training needs in SADC journalism,
conducted by Peter du Toit, and sponsored by the Nordic SADC journalism centre.
Report titled: “Media Management 2000: Exploring training needs of editors in the
countries of Southern African Development Community (SADC)”.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/nsjpdtrpt.doc

1997. Surveyed the key journalism teaching institutions in South Africa to compare their
curriculum, staff-student ratios, race and gender components, and views on relations
with the media industry and the National Qualifications Framework. (Report available at:
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/INDEJRN1.doc)

1995/6. Researched computer-aided journalism in preparation for training programmes

involving working journalists and students. The end result was the publication: The
internet: a goldmine for editors and reporters, available at:
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Goldmine.htm

1995: Research conducted for Deputy President's conference: At the request of the
then office of Thabo Mbeki, I researched the state of government communications
globally, and presented a paper on the result at a conference on the topic held in
Arniston, South Africa. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/arniston.htm

1995: Oversaw research team commissioned by Independent Broadcast Authority

(precursor to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa): I led a team
of journalism staffers and a dedicated researcher investigating the state of
cross-ownership in broadcasting around the world, as commissioned by the IBA.

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1993: Constructed South reader profile by initiating and overseeing readership research
by South newspaper, in conjunction with the Human Sciences Research Council.

1990: Drew up report titled "Southbound: proposals for SOUTH's market niche". This
research, commissioned by the newspaper before I became editor, required formulation
of hypotheses, design of a questionnaire and personal interviews with 30 stakeholders
in the newspaper and community opinion-leaders.

1988: I conducted detailed historical and contemporary research into political

imprisonment in South Africa on behalf of the International Defence and Aid Fund in
London. This involved literature and press clippings research as well as numerous
personal interviews.

1984: Assisted in research design for United Democratic Front: I assisted UDF civic
affiliates in planning and executing an opinion poll survey of Soweto voter attitudes to
elections for newly-created black local authorities.

1980: Researched for Honours dissertation (Communication): Done while I was jailed
as a political prisoner, this dissertation was challenged by limitations on new materials
allowed into the prison. It entailed enforced reliance on an eclectic collection of
materials accumulated by political prisoners over 20 years.

1979 - 1980: Researched for Masters degree (later incorporated in part into PhD):
This entailed extensive literature surveys, plus numerous fieldwork interviews with
agriculture officials and farmers in the then Ciskei bantustan.

1978: Researched for Honours dissertation (Political Studies):

This entailed an extensive literature survey.

9. POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH THESES SUPERVISED:

Kanyegerire, A. 2008. (Phd). Journalists’ perceptions of their roles and identities with
regard to Nepad.

Masters theses:

Sentebane, T.M. 2009. An investigation of newsroom convergence at MoAfrica media

company in Lesotho and its implications for gatekeeping: a qualitative study.

Mayiga, J. B. 2009. A study of Professionalism and the Professionalisation of Jounalists

of Uganda from 1995 – 2008.

Hamasaka, C. 2009. The impact of the broadcast legislative reforms on the newsroom
staff’s perceptions of the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC)’s editorial
operations and news content.

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Ticha, A. A. 2007. Selecting stories to tell. The gatekeeping of International News at
SAfm. (co-supervisor)

Sibanda, F. 2007. Blogging, journalism and the public sphere: assessing the value of
the ‘blogosphere; as a new form of the public sphere. A case study of the Mail &
Guardian’s Blogmark. (co-supervisor)

Jjuuko, D. 2005. Understanding Editorial Independence and Public Accountability

Issues in Public Broadcasting Service: A Study of the Editorial Policies at the South
African Broadcasting Corporation.

Hamachila, A. 2004. The use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in

newsgathering: A case study of the Post newspaper in Zambia (co-supervisor)

Venter, E. 2004. The safety of journalists: An assessment of the origins and

implementation of policy at international television news agencies APTN and RTV.

Kaheru, H. 2003. Does reporting on the environmental affect policy? A case study of
New Vision’s coverage of Nakivubo Channel Rehabilitation Project.

Kisuke, C. 2003. An investigation of the role of news values in the selection of news
sources in a contemporary Third World newspaper: A case study of the Daily Nation
newspaper.

Dlamini, T. 2002. Whither state, private or public service broadcasting? An analysis of

the construction of news on ZBC-TV during the 2002 Presidential Election campaign in
Zimbabwe.

Lazaro, A. 1999. An informed community’s perception of the impact of digital technology

on the credibility of news photography.

Naidoo, K. 1999. Exploring new terrain - tackling a tri-media approach to the 1999
election. An analysis of online coverage of elections by media organisations in their
respective countries and recommendations for multi-platform publishing within the
South African Broadcasting Corporation to cover the national election.

Chikunkhuzeni, F. 1999. Towards an understanding of the role of commercialisation in

programming at the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation from 1995 to 1998: a case study.

Cass, T. M. 1998. A comparison of the views of South African and American

photojournalists to the digital manipulation of news photographs.

Maleke, J. M. 1997. Media reach and reception in development communication: the

case of the Rural Industries Innovation Centre in Botswana.

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McComb, R. V.1997. Newspapers in education programmes and South African youth: a
survey of the relationship between South African school-goers and newspapers in
Esikhawini, Kwazulu-Natal.

Heuva, W. E. 1996. The alternative press in Namibia, 1960-1990.

Caldwell, M. A. 1996. Struggle in discourse: the International's discourse against

racism in the labour movement in South Africa (1915-1919).

O'Dowd, C. F. 1996. An examination of the factors underlying decision-making about

selection and presentation of photographs of political conflict in South African
newspapers.

10. PUBLICATIONS:

10.1 BOOKS AND CHAPTERS:

1. (ed). Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and Empowerment of

People. 2009. Paris: UNESCO.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001803/180312E.pdf)

2. (Booklet with Sim Kyazze). 2008. Consultation Meeting: Capacity Building for
Potential Centres of Excellence in Journalism Training in Africa Report. Rhodes
University, South Africa, 17-18 March http://nml.ru.ac.za/files/FINAL
%20REPORT%20African%20Journalism%20Schools%20consultation%2011.pdf

3. (Booklet with Denis Ocwich). 2008. A Report of a Follow-up Meeting of UNESCO

j-schools, held September 11, 2008 at the School of Journalism and Media
Studies, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Grahamstown:
UNESCO and Rhodes University. http://nml.ru.ac.za/files/Unesco%20j-schools
%20September%20meeting%20report%20final.doc

4. (Book with Elizabeth Barratt). 2008. The extraordinary editor. A handbook for
South Africa media leaders. Johannesburg: South African National Editors
Forum. http://nml.ru.ac.za/blog/guy-berger/2008/11/20/incredible-editors.html;
http://www.sanef.org.za/books/910528.htm

5. What is there in media for poor women and men? In Rudebeck, L. and Melin, M.
(eds) Whose Voices? Media and Pluralism in the Context of Democratisation.
Proceedings of a conference and workshop September 20-21. University of
Uppsala. Collegium for Development Studies.

6. (Booklet with Sipho January). 2008. Cellphone journalism – a guide to getting

started. https://www.ru.ac.za/documents/JMS/Cellphone%20Journalism
%20Booklet. pdf

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7. (e-Booklet with Fackson Banda). 2008. How to assess your media landscape.
Brussels: Global Forum for Media Development. www.gfmd-
athensconference.com/files/9__Dec__14_30_OSI.pdf

8. 2007. Media Legislation in Africa – a comparative legal survey, Paris: UNESCO,

and Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies. Also online at:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-
URL_ID=1657&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

9. 2007. Fifty Years of Journalism. African media since Ghana’s independence. (co-
editor with Elizabeth Barratt). Grahamstown: Highway Africa, The African Editors
Forum and the Media Foundation West Africa.
http://www.theafricaneditorsforum.org//index.php?
option=com_remository&Itemid=49&func=select&id=12. French edition at:
http://www.theafricaneditorsforum.org//index.php?
option=com_remository&Itemid=49&func=select&id=11

10. 2007. South Africa. Section in International Encyclopedia of Communication.

www.communicationencyclopedia.com. Blackwell Publishing.

11. 2007. Characteristics of African media markets, in Jannusch, A Sophie. 2007.

Money matters. How Independent Media Manage to Survive, pp19-31. Forum
Medien und Entwicklung, Bonn: Konrad Adenaeur Stiftung. Online at:
www.cameco.org/mez/Money_Matters_Documentation_sw.pdf

12. 2007. New Media and Press Freedom in the Developing World, in James, B.
(ed). 2007 New Media. The Press Freedom Dimension. Paris: World Press
Freedom Committee and World Association of Newspapers. Pp14-20.
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-
URL_ID=25143&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

13. 2007. Modernization and Africa's Emerging Engagement with the Information
Society, in Everett, A and Wallace, A.J. (eds). AfroGEEKS. Beyond the Digital
Divide. pp235-254. Center for Black Studies Research, University of California,
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara.

14. 2006. From the margins to mainstream: African ICT reporting comes of age.
Grahamstown, Rhodes University: Highway Africa.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Margins_to_%20Mainstream_Web.pdf

15. 2006. South Africa chapter (with Anne Taylor) in Mixed Signals. Lusaka: Panos.

16. 2006. (ed.) Part of the Story: ten years of the SA National Editors Forum, written
by Elizabeth Barratt. Johannesburg: SANEF
http://www.sanef.org.za/download_files/sanef_calendar/10birthday_oct06/full.pdf

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17. 2006. What the Newsroom Knows: Managing knowledge within African
newspapers. Grahamstown: Highway Africa.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Newsroom_Book(WEB).pdf

18. 2006. South Africa’s journalism of poverty needs an enriched practice of

reporting. Submitted to W. M. Gumede (ed.) Democracy, Transformation and the
Media. University of KwaZulu Natal Press. However, in 2009 the book was still to
be published.

19. 2005. South Africa. In: Konrad Adenauer Foundation (2005) Media and
Democracy: The KAF Democracy Report 2005 (pp 248-267); Bouvier Verlag.
Bonn www.kas.de/upload/Publikationen/KAF-dem-rep2005_3-4.pdf

20. 2005. (ed) Doing Digital Journalism. How Southern African newsgatherers are
using ICT. Grahamstown: New Media Lab & Highway Africa.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Doing_Digital_Web.pdf

21. 2005. (ed). Absent Voices, Missed Opportunities. Media silence on ICT policy
issues in six African countries. Grahamstown: Highway Africa.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Catia_Final.pdf

22. 2005. Media in the Mix. Chapter in Olifant, A; Delius, P and Meltzer, L (eds)
Democracy X. Marking the present. Re-presenting the Past. (pp 203-210)
Pretoria: Unisa Press. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Centuries%20back.doc
(prepublished version)

23. 2005. South African journalism: current challenges. Chapter in Hadland, A. (ed).
Changing the Fourth Estate: essays on South Africa journalism. Pretoria: HSRC
press. Online at: http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/downloadpdf.php?pdffile=files
%2FPDF%2F2092%2F2092_01_Changing_the_Fourth_Estate
%7E02082005115229AM.pdf&downloadfilename=Changing%20the%20Fourth
%20Estate%3A%20Essays%20on%20South%20African%20journalism%20-
%201%20Current%20challenges

24. 2005. Editorial Independence and Public Accountability in PBS 111-129, in

Eashwar, SS (ed). Promoting Peace and Prosperity In a Globalised World. Asia
Media Summit 2005. Kuala Lumpur: Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcast
Development. ISBN 983-41053-3-9
http://download.aibd.org.my/books/AMS_05_Promoting_Peace_and_Prosperity.p
df

25. 2004. Media and AIDS: How journalists can do better, in Eashwar, SS (ed).
Dialogue, Understanding and Tolerance. First Asia Media Summit 2004. 209-
215. Kuala Lumpur: Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development.
http://download.aibd.org.my/books/Responses_to_Globalization.pdf

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26. 2004. South Africa chapter in So This is Democracy? Windhoek: Media Institute
of Southern Africa.

27. 2004. Introduction to book: Travelling Light. Pietermaritzburg: University of

Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2004. (Photography by Paul Weinberg).

28. 2002. Deracialisation, democracy and development: transformation of the South

African media 1994-2000. in Tomaselli, K and Dunn, H (eds). Media, democracy
and renewal in Southern Africa. Colorado Springs: International Academic
Publishers.

29. 2001.Configuring convergence: southern African websites looking at American

experience. Grahamstown, Rhodes University New Media Lab.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/nrfboo8kisbn.doc

30. 2001. It’s the training that did it. (self-published)

http//:guyberger/ru/ac/za/Research/Journalism%20education/trainimpact.htm

31. 2000. Foreword. South Africa's resistance press. Alternative voices in the last
generation under apartheid. Switzer, L and Adhikari, M. (eds). Athens: Ohio
University Center for International Studies.

32. 2000. Publishing for the people: the alternative press 1980-1999. in Evans, N
and Seeber, M. (eds). The Politics of Publishing in South Africa. London: Holger
Ehling Publishing; Scottsville: University of Natal Press.

33. (ed). 2000. African Media Online, 2nd edition, written by Kameshnee
Naidoo.NML occasional publication, Rhodes University department of Journalism
and Media Studies.

34. 1999. Introduction, in So this is democracy? Review of press freedom in SADC

countries during 1998, Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa.

35. (ed). 1998. Travelling the data highway. written by Kameshnee Naidoo, NML
occasional publication, Rhodes University department of Journalism and Media
Studies.

36. (ed). 1997. Old Media to New. Written by Kameshnee Naidoo, NML occasional
publication, Rhodes University department of Journalism and Media Studies.

37. 1995. The Internet: A Goldmine for Editors and Reporters, Grahamstown: New
Media Lab, Rhodes University. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Goldmine.htm

38. 1995. (booklet) New Tricks for the Newspaper Trade: an old watchdog tastes
press freedom and the information age. (inaugural lecture, 20 September,
Rhodes University)

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 39. 1995. Media, Freedom and Responsibility: Understanding Ethics, in Nel, F. (ed).
Writing for the Media. Cape Town: Southern Press, 1994.

40. 1992. Social Structure and Rural Development in the Third World, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. (softcover edition published in 2008).

10.2 JOURNAL ARTICLES: (* = published in peer reviewed journal)

1. 2008. Sing a swansong for SABC as we know it. Rhodes Journalism Review. 28:
32-33. http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no28/swansong_for_sabc.pdf

2. 2008. From content to conversation. Can cellphones be used for journalism?

Rhodes Journalism Review. 28:70-71.
http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no28/content_conversation.pdf

3. *2008. 'A paradigm in process: What the scapegoating of Vusi Mona signalled
about South African journalism', Communicatio, 34:1, 1 — 20.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/hefer%20paradigm%20repair5.doc (Pre-
publication version).

4. *2008. Towards defining ‘Potential Centres of Excellence’ in African journalism

training. Journalism Practice, 2:2, 147 - 162

5. 2008. Why the 1977 clampdown compels us to champion the constitution. In: IAJ
Journal edition titled “Remembering Black Wednesday”, October 2007.
(http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/iaj%20oct%2019%20contribution%20-%20Guy
%20Berger.doc) (Pre-publication version).

6. 2008. The poverty of journalism and the politics of reporting poverty statistics in
South Africa. Article accepted for publication in Nordicom Journal.
(http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/poverty%20debate%20paper%20for
%20Nordicom.doc)

7. *2008. How the Internet Impacts on International News: Exploring Paradoxes of

the Most Global Medium in a Time of ‘Hyperlocalism’. Accepted for publication in
International Communication Gazette.
(http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/austin15%20-%20gazette%20shortened.doc)
(pre-publication version).

8. 2008. Take a pre-election tour tailored for journalists and politicians. New
Agenda: S A Journal of Social and Economic Policy. Fourth Quarter, December
Issue, 2008. No 32 (http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Turok%20article.doc)
(Pre-publication version).

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9. 2008. SABC became a “soap opera”. But it’s an educational one. Article
accepted for publication in Media Development journal.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Article%20for%20media%20development.doc
(Pre-publication version).

10. 2007. Education is a spring… it bubbles. Rhodes Journalism Review, 27,

September. pp30-31

11. 2007. (co-authored with Denis Jjuuko). Reconciling Editorial Independence and
Public Accountability Issues in Public Broadcasting Service: Editorial Policies at
South African Broadcasting Corporation. Communicare 26(1): 92-113.

12. *2007. In search of journalism education excellence in Africa: Summary of the

2006 Unesco project. Ecquid Novi. 28(1&2): 149-155

13. 2006. Professionalism and training for mass communication: challenges and
opportunities for Southern Africa. Open Space, 2006.

14. *2006. Review, Francis Nyamnjoh. Africa’s Media: Democracy and the Politics of
Belonging. (London & New York, Zed Books; Pretoria, Unisa Press). Journal of
Southern African Studies. 32(3): 642-4, September

15. 2006. Harnessing Newsroom Knowledge. Rhodes Journalism Review, No 25,

p22.

16. 2005. "Fit for purpose" – towards tracking the quality of university education of
entry-level. Ecquid Novi: AJS. (26): 175-198

17. 2004. Media Transformation scorecard. Journal of Marketing. 10(2): 36.

http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/scorecard.doc

18. 2004. WSIS misses. But media could make it a hit. Media Development. (3): 12
-16

19. 2004. The new media maelstrom. New technologies promise a wealth of media
and messages. Rhodes Journalism Review, 2004, no. 24, p39.
http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no24/newmedia_maelstrom.pdf

20. 2004. Problematizing race for journalists: critical reflections on the South African
Human Rights Commission Inquiry. Race, Gender & Class. 11(2) (First
published in Critical Arts, 15(1-2)).

21. 2004. More media for Southern Africa? The place of politics, economics and
convergence in developing media density. Critical Arts, 18(1): 43-76

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22. 2003. Press vs Public Enemy no. 1. Rhodes Journalism Review. No.22.
September. http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/The%20Quest.pdf, and at
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/RJRPOVERTY.doc

23. 2003. Interrogate the Information Society. Rhodes Journalism Review, no. 23.
December. Republished in Intermedia magazine (April, 2004, 32(1):8-13).

24. *2003. When Cultural Content and Information Technology Converge. The
Southern African Journal of Information and Communication 2(1).

25. 2002. Can Newspapers Survive the Digital Revolution? Online Journalism
Review http://www.ojr.org/ojr/forums/forum.php?ID=18396

26. 2002. Future News: First World, Fourth World. Online Journalism Review.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/forums/forum.php?ID=7116

27. *2002. Theorizing the media-democracy relationship in Southern Africa. Gazette

64(1): 21-45

28. 2002. Seeing past race: politics of the HRC's inquiry into racial representation.
Ecquid Novi. 23(2):254-277.
Available at: http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/ecquid.doc.

29. 2002. Claiming your place in cyberspace. Intermedia.

(http://www.iicom.org/intermedia/latest_issue/Web_July_02/Berger.htm) and
(http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Claiming%20your%20place%20in
%20cyberspace.doc)

30. *2001. Problematizing race for journalists: critical reflections on the South African
Human Rights Commission inquiry into media racism. Critical Arts, 15(1-2),
Available at: http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/problematise.doc

31. 2001. The trouble with race. Rhodes Journalism Review, no. 20. p43,57

32. *2000. Response to Boloka and Krabill. Transformation, 43. pp.75-89.

33. 2000. Trains-formation. Rhodes Journalism Review. August. no. 19, p.30.
http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no19/generation_j.pdf

34. 2000. Over the rainbow. Rhodes Journalism Review. August. (19):30.
http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no19/over_the_rainbow.pdf

35. *1999. Towards an analysis of the South African Media in the Transformation,
1994-1999, Transformation, no. 38, 84-116

36. *1999. Grave New World, Journalism Studies, 1(1): 81-99.

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37. 1999. 21 Qs and As to get you in gear to cover the election. Rhodes Journalism
Review, no. 17, March, p.21. http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no17/21q&a.pdf

38. *1998. Review Article: Press Time: Black Publishing Then and Now.
Transformation. no. 36.

39. *1998. Media and democracy in Southern Africa. Review of African Political
Economy, no. 78, pp599-610.

40. 1997. Racial challenges facing the media. The IAJ Journal, 2(3), November.

41. 1996. The higher you climb, the further you fall. Rhodes Journalism Review, 11.
http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no12/fall.pdf

42. *1996. Educating the journalism educators, Communicatio, 22(2)

Also at: http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/berger-claasen.htm

43. 1995. Training for Transformation: Journalism in the 1990s. Ecquid Novi, 1995,
16 (1-2) pp86-92.

44. 1995. International Experience: Government Communication and Media Policy,

paper written for Conference of Government Communicators, Arniston, 25- 27
August. Published on the Internet by the SA Communications Services:
http://www/sacs.org.za/cgi-bin/vdkw cgi/xab474d84-60/search/4147906/.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/arniston.htm

45. 1995. "New Barons of the Press" Index on Censorship, (3): 125-132.

46. 1995. Winning freedom, losing journalism. Democracy in Action, January 1995.

47. 1994. Media skills in the making, in Rhodes Journalism Review, No. July. p45.
http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no8/media_skills.pdf

48. 1993. Guest editorial: the Independent Media Diversity Trust, Rhodes Journalism
Review. No. 6, July. http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no6/no6_guested.pdf

49. 1992. Facing the challenge of an ailing industry, in Rhodes Journalism Review,
No.5 December. http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/rjrpdf/rjr_no5/ailing_industry.pdf

50. 1993. "Community and media". (Speech written for graduation ceremony of the
Community Arts Project, Cape Town). Published in The Other Newsletter,
February 1993, Issue no. 5.

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10.3 NEWSPAPER, MAGAZINE AND OTHER JOURNALISM

Starting in July 2003, I began authoring the fortnightly media column “Converse” on the
website of the respected Mail&Guardian newspaper, producing a total of 148
contributions by February 2009. URL: www.mg.co.za/converse

During 2007, I started a parallel online platform, titled “Conversant”, which is a blog
covering both new media and journalism teaching issues. http://nml.ru.ac.za/blog/guy-
berger)

The same year I initiated a blog on South African politics and media issues, at
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/guyberger. I also began contributing to the PBS hosted
group blog of Knight News Challenge winners Mediashift Idealab In 2008
(http://www.pbs.org/idealab/guy_berger/) and I commenced a Twitter feed on which I
publish news tidbits from media-related conferences.
(http://www.twitter.com/guyberger)

Other examples of my journalism over the years include:

2008. Small paper, big victory. The Media. September, p.26

2006. Press freedom day article. Grocotts Mail, October 19.

2006. Coming soon is the anniversary of the dark day when apartheid Justice Minister
Jimmy Kruger outlawed three newspapers. Daily Dispatch, 5 October.

2004. Farewell to the elder statesman. Sowetan, 25 June, 2004

2004. Journalism wallows in its own muck. This Day, 14 May, 2004, p 11.

2004. When pride is a virtue. Centennial. Rhodes University Centenary Magazine,

pp52-545

2003. Fight for a Free Press – Mbeki. Sowetan 14 April 2003

http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/All%20Africa%20Editors-guy.doc

2003. Defending preachers of freedom. The Star. 1 April

http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/All%20Africa%20Editors-guy.doc

2003. The All-Africa Editors Conference opens in Johannesburg this weekend.

Sowetan, 7 April 2003 http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/All%20Africa%20Editors-guy.doc

2003. In war, trust your own scepticism. City Press, 30 March 2003.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/satstarmondi.doc

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2003. Local reporting still gets the story. Mondis show what's happening in SA as Iraq
war damages media credibility. Saturday Star, 12 April
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/satstarmondi.doc

2003. Obituary on Mono Badela. City Press. (fulltext:

http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Badela.doc)

2003. Giving marriage a good name. 22 September 2003. Equality – website of the
Lesbian and Gay Equality Project. originally published at
http://www.equality.org.za/opinion/#berger

2003. Overstating the libertarian model. Enterprise magazine, vol.17.4 April

http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/nepadenterprise.doc

2003. Don't mess with editors' independence. Sunday Times, 4 May, 2003
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Have%20you%20ever%20squirmed%20in%20front
%20of%20your%20TV%20wishing4.doc

2002. Bali's bitter harvest. Sunday Independent, and simultaneously in the Sunday
Tribune: 20 October 2002 http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Bali.doc

2002. Book review: We shall not weep, by Johnny Masilela. Wordstock, July.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/We%20shall%20not%20weep.doc

2002. Things come together, can the centre hold? Bua, a quarterly magazine for
government communicators. May.

2002. Deepening media density: what South African freedom shows us. The Round
Table, 2002. Issue 366. September. pp 533- 544.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/convergencecwealthshort.doc

2002. Deepening media density: convergence is the key. Free Press. Windhoek: Media
Institute of Southern Africa.

2001. Review article: The Drum Decade - Stories from the 950s, (ed.) Chapman, M.
Durban: University of Natal Press. Wordstock, 29 June 2001.

1999. Why FM did us all a favour, Sowetan, May.

1998. Media probe a complex issue with no simple answers. Sowetan. 19 November

1998. Black-and-white media start to see a rainbow at the end of the tunnel. Sunday
Independent, 1 February

1998. Naidoo may want more control of broadcasting, but new technology will frustrate
him. Sunday Independent, 22 February.

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1997. Broadcasting through a glass darkly. Sunday Independent, 18 October.

1997. Press whitewashes the dirt. Mail & Guardian, March 7. Originally at:
http://wn.apc.org/wmail/issues/970307/NEWS31.html

1996. It's a high road to Information 2000, Natal Mercury 11/7/96; also published as
Look forward to cheaper media - except for print in 21st century, Star 15/7/96, and Get
Ready for the Great Media Boom, Cape Times 15/7/96.

1996. Communications made clear? Cape Times, 4/10/96

1995. ‘Down with bureaucratic sloth! Who should drive development? The government,
NGOs or the people themselves?’, Leading Edge, 1:30-34.

1995. No Ordinary Business, Finance Week, March.

1990-94: Numerous articles in New Era magazine and South newspaper (Cape Town).

1988-89: Numerous articles in the Morning Star (London), Southscan (London) and
New Nation (Johannesburg).

1978: Several articles on the media in Work in Progress magazine.

10.4 WEBSITES:

Involved in production of:

2002: Launch of African Union: http://au.ru.ac.za
2002: SA documentary culture: www.alivingstage.org
2001. Grahamstown culture. http://journ.ru.ac.za/egazini.
2001. SADC media trainers. http://journ.ru.ac.za/sadc
2001. Ongoing: homepage. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za

11. CONFERENCE PAPERS, SPECIAL LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS:

1. 2008. Haiku journalism in Africa. Iindaba Ziyafika - “The news is coming”.

Presentation to 2nd Global Forum for Media Development, December 7-10 Athens.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Knight%20GFMD%20Guy%20Berger.ppt

2. 2008. Panellist in Workshop 5: Assessing media landscapes. 2nd Global Forum for
Media Development, December 7-10 Athens.

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3. 2008. Image revisions. South Africa, Africa and the 2010 World Cup. Paper
presented to Conference “Sports and development”, convened by the German
School of Journalism (DJS), "Bayerischer Rundfunk" (Radio Bavaria), InWEnt and
the Institute for Communication Science at the University of Munich. Munich, 27-9
November 2008. http://nml.ru.ac.za/files/Sports.doc

4. 2008. Panellist at Open Society “Expert meeting” titled “Digital Broadcasting:

Regulation, Policy and Independence”. London, November 27th – 28 th.

5. 2008. A critique of SABC’s political coverage, and opportunities that the current
political climate offers developmental journalism and the SABC. Presentation at
SABC elections conference. 22 November, Johannesburg.
6. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/sabc08.ppt

7. 2008. Search and the semantic web: what j-students need to know. Presentation to
conference: “Journalism Education & Training: The Challenges”. Workshop for
Session “Journalism 2.0 – Journalism, the wikiworld, consumer generated content
and SoJo.” Stellenbosch, 17 October. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Search
%20and%20the%20semantic%20web.ppt

8. 2008. Speaker on Panel: “The Business of Public Broadcasting: Balancing Politics,

Profit and the Public Interest”. Annual Executive Summit of the African Broadcast
Media Partnership Against HIV/AIDS. Johannesburg, 26th – 28th October

9. 2008. Facing down Facebook. Presentation to conference: “Journalism Education &

Training: The Challenges”. Stellenbosch, 16 October 2008,
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Facing%20down%20facebook.ppt

10. 2008. Iindaba Ziyafika. “The news is coming”. Presentation at conference

“MobileActive08” Johannesburg, October 13-15, 2008.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Knight%20intro.ppt

11. 2008. Mainstreaming communications in development. Presentation to Oxfam

workshop. Pretoria, 9 October 2008
12. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/oxfam%20-%20guy%20berge.ppt

13. 2008. Politics and broadcasting – which way Southern Africa? Keynote speech at
conference “Public broadcasting in troubled times”, convened by Friedrich Ebert
Stiftung and Misa, Cape Town, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2008
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Politics%20and%20broadcasting.ppt

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14. 2008. New digital business models, Highway Africa “Citizen journalism and
journalism for citizens” conference, Grahamstown. 9 September.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/ha%20new%20digital%20business%20models.ppt

15. 2008. Problematizing UNESCO’s indicators. Presentation to conference “Building

capacity for media development”, Africa Regional Forum for Media Development,
Rhodes University, 7 September. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/african%20forum
%2008%20Berger1.ppt

16. 2008. Relations between the Media and State structures on communication
issues and prospects for the digital future. Presentation at seminar “Connecting with
the media, 2008”, Port Elizabeth, 5 September.
17. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/PE%20media%20govt%20rels.ppt

18. 2008. (with Jude Mathurine). Problematizing media development. Paper

presented to annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication, Chicago, 9 August, 2008.
19. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/aejmc%2008%20Berger.ppt

20. 2008. The changing media ecosystem: implications for journalism. Presentation
at Media24 annual conference, Johannesburg, 31 July 2008.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/m24%20bergerlite.ppt

21. 2008. The politics of reporting poverty statistics in South Africa: anatomy of a
media debate. Paper presented at 26th conference of the International Association
for Media and Communication Research, “Media and Global Divides”, panel on
“Challenges for African media and communication research”, July 25.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/povertyiamcr.ppt

22. 2008. What ails (in)sight? Presentation on panel: “A FAILURE OF (IN)SIGHT?:

Re-imagining global discourses and public policies on development, poverty,
literacy, ICT, media and education from developing country contexts”, in Canadian
Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) conference. Vancouver, 1 June.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/canada%20CSSE%2008%20Guy%20Berger.ppt

23. 2008. Digital Literacy for African Newsrooms. Presentation at Africa Media
Leadership Conference, Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership and Konrad
Adenaeur Stiftung, Kampala, 24-27 May. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/using
%20rss%20SPI%20Kampala.pptx

24. 2008. The changing media ecosystem: what African media leaders need to
know. Keynote address at Africa Media Leadership Conference, Sol Plaatje Institute

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 for Media Leadership and Konrad Adenaeur Stiftung, Kampala, 24-27 May.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/now%20to%20next.doc

25. 2008. Chair of panel: “Press Freedom contributes to empowerment”, conference

titled “Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and the Empowerment of
People”, convened by UNESCO, 2-3 May, Maputo.

26. 2008. Seeing past race – its relevance for journalists. Presentation to workshop
of Caxton Newspaper editors, Johannesburg, 23 May.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/caxton%20race.ppt

27. 2008. Africa Free to Access Information. Keynote speech to Media Freedom Day
event, convened by the organising committee for World Press Freedom Day, made
up of six Zambian media organisations, and arranged by the Press Freedom
Committee of “The Post”, Lusaka, 26 April.
28. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Presentation%20to%20The%20Post.doc

29. 2008. Building digital literacy: New tools. Presentation to SA National Editors
Forum. Cape Town, 10 February. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/using%20rss
%20sanef.ppt

30. 2007. Hard work ahead for the Press Council. Presentation to conference
convened by SA Press Council, Esselen Park, Johannesburg. 2 November 2007.
http://www.presscouncil.org.za/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=6

31. 2007. Toyi-toying on a tightrope: balancing rights to privacy and dignity, with
freedom of expression, in the South African context. Keynote address to SABC and
SANEF “Media and Society” conference, Johannesburg. 19 October 2007.
guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/sanef-sabc07%20final.rtf

32. 2007. What’s in media for poor women and men: South Africa. Paper presented
to conference “Whose Voices? Media and Pluralism in the Context of
Democratisation”,
33. September 20–21, 2007, Uppsala. The Collegium for Development Studies at
Uppsala University in collaboration with Sida’s Divisions for Democratic
Governance, and for Culture and Media.

34. 2007. HA – So what? Where to? Presentation at Highway Africa conference,

Grahamstown, 10 September.

35. 2007. Media Legislation in Africa. Presentation to The African Editors Forum
council, Grahamstown, 8 September. (Repeated to seminar at Department of

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 Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere, Finland, 15
September).

36. 2007. J-schools in Africa: a ball starts rolling. Presentation at Highway Africa
conference, Grahamstown, 10 September. (Repeated to seminar at Department of
Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere, Finland, 15
September).

37. 2007. Five, or maybe six, new tools. Presentation at Highway Africa conference,
Grahamstown, 9 September.

38. 2007. Regulation, rights and radical challenge: the SA Male Prostitute blog.
Digital Citizens’ Indaba. Rhodes University, Grahamstown. 8 September 2007.

39. 2007. African journalism meets ICT: whither the wealth of networks?
Presentation to seminar at University of Queensland, School of Journalism and
Communications. 16 August 2007. http://nml.ru.ac.za/files/African%20journalism
%20meets%20ICT%20final.doc

40. 2007. Caught in the middle – how a scurrilous South African blog raised the
issues of freedom, regulation and responsibility. Paper presented at 16th AMIC
annual conference – Media, Education & Development: the quest for new
paradigms; June 25. Singapore. Plenary Session 2, “Media Freedom versus
Responsibility: East – West Perspectives”.
http://gberger.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/amic-paper-berger2.doc

41. 2007. Towards defining “potential centres of excellence” in African journalism

training. First World Journalism Education Congress. Media, education and
development: the quest for new paradigms. 25 – 28 June, 2007 Singapore.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/African%20j-school%20excellence.pdf

42. 2007. Global Census of Journalism Education – the African UNESCO

experience. First World Journalism Education Congress. Media, education and
development: the quest for new paradigms. 25 – 28 June, 2007 Singapore

43. 2007. Assessment and accreditation: the significance of UNESCO research into
African J-schools. First World Journalism Education Congress. Media, education
and development: the quest for new paradigms. 25 – 28 June, 2007 Singapore

44. 2007. South Africa’s media system. Presentation to post-graduate students,

Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai. 21 June.

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45. 2007. Africa between History and Hyperlocalism. Presentation at Session:
Reporting Africa for Africans and the World. World Association of Newspapers
(WAN) and World Editors Forum (WEF), 3 - 6 June 2007. Cape Town International
Convention Centre. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/wef%20Berger3.rtf

46. 2007. Contested media environments in South Africa: the making of

communications policy since 1994. Extended Paper for “After Apartheid
Conference”, 27-28 April, 2007, New Haven, Connecticut.

47. 2007. Out of Eden: From huntin’ and gatherin’ … to gourmet cuisinin. 10 tips for
Caxtons’ editors. Presentation to Caxton workshop. Valley Lodge, Magaliesburg. 20
April.

48. 2007. Revealing Race. Presentation on a research report. Workshop, Media

Monitoring Project, Johannesburg, 16 April 2007.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/mmp%20revealing%20race.ppt

49. 2007. Getting the most global medium to live up to its global promise. Keynote
address at 8th International Symposium on Online Journalism, organized by the
Knight Chair in Journalism and the UNESCO Chair in Communication at the
University of Texas at Austin, March 30-31, 2007.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/austin15%20-%20gazette%20shortened.doc

50. 2007. New Media and Press Freedom in the Developing World. Keynote speech
to conference: New Media: The Press Freedom Dimension. Challenges and
Opportunities of New Media for Press Freedom. Sponsored by the World Press
Freedom Committee, co-sponsored by UNESCO, in partnership with the
Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, Paris, 15-16 February.
51. http://www.wpfc.org/site/docs/pdf/NewMediaConf-Final%20Publication.pdf

52. 2006: Peer review for African Public Broadcasters. Briefing document for
Southern African Association of Broadcasters (SABA), Strategic Planning Session,
Johannesburg, 4-7 December 2006.

53. 2006: The bottom line. Presentation to Editors' Summit, convened by SA National
Editors Forum, Johannesburg, 24 November 2006

54. 2006: Democracy and the media - a view from South Africa. Presentations at:
University of Amsterdam (November 8); Free University of Amsterdam (November
9); University of Groningen (November 9). Arranged by Netherlands Institute for
Southern Africa (NiZA).

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55. 2006: South Africa: contested media dispensations 1994-2006. Presentation to
Reuters Institute, Green College, Oxford University, 1 November.

56. 2006: Convergence or Divergence? Which Way for Broadcasting in Southern

Africa.
57. Regional Broadcasting Debate Workshop, Hotel Pestana. Maputo, Mozambique,
30 October, 2006

58. 2006: Research priorities for AfriMAP research into Public Service Broadcasting
in Africa, with regard to digitisation. Paper presented to AfriMAP consultation
convened by Open Society Institute, London, October 31
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/AfriMAP%20background%20paper%20edited
%201.doc

59. 2006: Peer review for African Public Broadcasters. Presentation to conference:
“Global media, culture and tomorrow’s challenges.” Public Broadcasters
International, Maputo, 21-22 September, 2006. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/pbi
%20abridged.ppt

60. 2006: Characteristics of African media markets. Presentation to workshop

“Money matters. How Independent Media Manage to Survive”, convened by Forum
Media and Development, Academy Eichholz Castle, Germany. 15-16. September,
2006. http://journ.ru.ac.za/staff/guy/fulltext/kaf%20media%20markets
%20berger2.ppt

61. 2006: Using ICTs, Reporting ICTs. Presentation at Highway Africa 10th
Anniversary conference, “Celebrations, Reflections and Future Directions”. Rhodes
University, Grahamstown. 11-13 September.

2006: Contested media environments in SA: the making of communications policy

since 1994. Paper presented to conference "After Apartheid", organised by Yale
University, Cape Town, 11-12 August. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/yale
%20conference%20-%20Berger%20paper.doc

62. 2006: Thinking about media as a resource for integrity. Presentation to

International Communications Forum summer conference, 1 August. Caux,
Switzerland.

63. 2006: Media power and economic justice. Presentation to International

Communications Forum summer conference. Caux, Switzerland, 3 August.

64. 2006: Community engagement: some issues. Paper and presentation to Rhodes
University Imbizo. Mpekweni, Eastern Cape, 22 July.

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65. 2006: Media in a multi-cultural society. Presentation to seminar organised by
FreeVoice, Johannesburg, 19-20 July.

66. 2006: Training to strengthen the African media circuit. Presentation to Media
Development Consultative Forum for Southern Africa, convened by Media Institute
of Southern Africa. Johannesburg, 28-29 June.

67. 2006: Is self-regulation the answer to the lacunae in regulation? Presentation and
paper to AIBD/UNESCO/WRTVC/FES International Seminar on: "Public interest
and broadcasting development: regulation, co-regulation, self regulation". Kuala
Lumpur, 28 May.

68. 2006: Assessing creative pedagogy. Presentation to conference of world

journalism educators, May 23, 24 and 25, Columbia University, New York.

69. 2006: The evolution of the media through convergence. Presentation to

workshop “Dialogue between telecoms and media regulation stakeholders in the
times of convergence: challenges and prospects for West and Central Africa”,
organised by Panos Institute West Africa, Benin, Cotonou, 2 to 4 February.

70. 2005. King Content and the Journalism Curriculum. Presentation at Experts
Consultative Meeting on Journalism Education, Unesco, Paris. 14-16 December.
71. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/guyhistory3.htm

72. 2005. Values, the media and poverty. Presentation at annual conference of Caux
initiatives for business and International Communications Forum, Panchgani, India.
18-22 November.

73. 2005. Media and policy. Presentation at Highway Africa conference, Reinforcing
Journalism in the Information Society, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. 13
September.

74. 2005. How does the Internet change journalism? Presentation at panel
discussion, Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), World Summit on the
Information Society, Tunis, 15 November.

75. 2005: Media missing the Convergence Bill. Presentation to Convergence South
Africa conference, 19-20 October 2005, Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg.

76. 2005: Discussant on panel “Ideology, race, media, democracy and society - what
role for the Media in Society?” at conference “Media in Society: transformation of

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 the Media in a society in transition”, organised by SABC, SA National Editors
Forum, and University of Limpopo, October 18-19, Johannesburg.

77. 2005. On the road: Highway Africa, what’s been built to date. Presentation to
Highway Africa Conference, Reinforcing Journalism in the Information Society.
Rhodes University, Grahamstown. 10-13 September.

78. 2005. Media’s missing morals? It’s mostly a matter of skill. Presentation at
“Media Ethics and Professionalism: Towards an Ethical African Media.” Conference
organised by the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), August 22-24, 2005.
Windhoek.

79. 2005. The Media are a Mess: why South African journalism is not doing its job.
Speech, Winter School, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, 5 July 2005.

80. 2005. Bananas, mangoes and Mrs Kabaki. Presentation at Media Debate,
organised by MultiChoice, Norfolk Hotel, Nairobi, June 23, 2005

81. 2005. “Fit for purpose” – towards tracking the quality of university education of
entry-level journalists. Presentation to Colloquium on Journalism Education, Rhodes
University, June 10-11. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/fitforpurpose.doc

82. 2005. Modernisation and Africa’s emerging engagement with the Information
Society. Paper presented to conference “AfroGEEKS: Global Blackness and the
Digital Public Sphere”, University of California, Santa Barbara. May 19 – 22.

83. 2005. Reconciling Editorial Independence and Public Accountability Issues in

Public Broadcasting Service: Editorial Policies at South African Broadcasting
Corporation. Presentation and paper, Asia Media Summit 2005. May 9 - 11, 2005,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

84. 2005. Vision and Image of the continent: produce and disseminate information
on Africa at the regional and global level. Presentation at “Strategic round table
discussion on information pluralism - challenges in the forthcoming 5 years”, Dakar,
21 - 22 March, Panos Institute of West Africa.

85. 2005. Research – a luxury? Strategic round table discussion on information

pluralism - challenges in the forthcoming 5 years. Presentation. Dakar, 21 - 22
March, Panos Institute of West Africa.

86. 2005. Why policies matter for engendering plural, profitable and sustainable
media in Africa. A primer for media leaders. Presentation and paper. Media

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 Management Seminar Series organised by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Policies &
Strategies for Media Viability in Africa. Maputo, 9-12 February 2005.

87. 2005. World Democracy Report: Media in South Africa. Presentation. January 31
- February 1, 2005. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Königswinter, Germany.

88. 2004. Past performance and future practice: journalism teaching in South Africa
1994 – 2014. Paper for 10 years of Media Freedom seminar, convened by SANEF,
5 December, 2004, Bloemfontein. Published in Stewart, G. (ed) 2005. “Spreading
the news: South African media in the first decade of democracy", Johannesburg:
SANEF. Also at: http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/pastpresent.doc

89. 2004. New media, Africa and 2020. Presentation at Department of Journalism
and Mass Communication, University of Stockholm, Sweden, 1 December.

90. 2004. State of South African media. Presentation at Department of Journalism

and Mass Communication, University of Stockholm, Sweden, 29 November.

91. 2004. Debugging the media and some messy matters. Suggestions for
Khomanani on the use of newspaper adverts. Presentation to Meropa
communications seminar, Johannesburg, 19 November.

92. 2004. Ethics and Excuses: the scapegoating of Vusi Mona. Paper presented to
Southern African Communication Association (Sacomm) conference, Port
Elizabeth, 21 October.
93. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/hefersaccom2.doc

94. 2004. The view in the rear-mirror does not give much guidance. Paper presented
to Critical Tradition Colloquium, Grahamstown, 19-21 August.
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/guyberger/2008/10/20/a-truth-commission-for-sas-
journalism-education/

95. 2004. Captives of communication. Presentation to conference of student media,

convened by Activate newspaper, Rhodes University, 2 August.

96. 2004. Ten years of teaching journalism: The onion model of our business.
Presentation on a panel about journalism education, alumni celebration event, 3
July.

97. 2004: Speech at Mondi Paper Newspaper Journalism Awards ceremony (for the
year 2003), Johannesburg, 6 May 2004
98. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/mondiawards04.doc

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99. 2004. Media & AIDS: How we can do better. Paper delivered at Asia Media
Summit 2004, Kuala Lumpur, 19-21 April,
100. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/aidsmediaasia.doc

101. 2004. Protection of journalistic sources: between you, me and the subpoena.
Paper delivered to Africa Conference on Freedom of Expression, organised by the
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in collaboration with Article 19,
Media Institute for Southern Africa, and Media Foundation for West Africa. 19-20
February, 2004. Pretoria. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Protectionofsources.doc

102. 2004. Submission to Portfolio Committee on Communications: The Convergence

Bill. 03 February. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/convergencecomments.doc

103. 2003. Finding pearls in pools: the flow of environmental journalism after the
WSSD. Presentation to conference Sustaining Environmental Journalism, Nelson
Mandela Gateway, Cape Town, 20-21 November.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/allchange03.ppt

104. 2003. A strategy for covering poverty. Presentation to Peninsula Technikon

Media Students Conference: “The Role of Media in Poverty Alleviation”, Cape
Town, 20-24 October http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/povertyjournalismpentech.ppt

105. 2003. Whose poll is it - the politicians’, or the people’s? Ethical implications for
the media. Misa elections seminar, Johannesburg. 29 October.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/misaelect.ppt

106. 2003. Conceptualising convergence. A presentation to “Media convergence:

world trends and options for Africa”. Alphen Hotel, Cape Town. 1-4 October.
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Rhodes University Sol Plaatje Media Leadership
Institute
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/CONCEPTUALISINGCONVERGENCE.ppt#256

107. 2003: Examining the body of health journalism in South Africa: a timely check-
up.
108. Remarks at Award Ceremony for the US/South Africa Health Reporting Awards,
Pretoria, 16 August, 2003.
109. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/health%20journalism.doc

110. 2003: Media impact on public opinion and policy, implications for journalists
Guest lecture at Reuters Foundation course, Grahamstown, July.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/publicopinionbymedia.ppt

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111. 2003: A half-told story: developing a research agenda into representation of
poverty in the South African news media. Paper delivered at 2003 annual
conference of the Southern African Communication Association (Sacomm), Durban
25-27 June.
112. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Povertypaperforsacomm.doc

113. 2003: Submission on SABC’s Draft Editorial Policies for Rhodes University
114. Department of Journalism and Media Studies.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/sabcpolicies.doc

115. 2003: Reporting our biggest problem. Presentation to Eastern Cape media and
government, Metropolitan Life Eastern Cape Media Indaba, 13 June, Fish River
Sun. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/povertyjournalismecape.ppt

116. 2003: Media training: maximising triumphs and minimising travesties.

117. Some lessons from the experience of impact assessment from Southern Africa .
118. Paper based on presentation to seminar: “Impact indicators: making a
difference”, Independent Journalism Centre, Chisinau, Moldova, 15 May 2003.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Media%20training.doc (See also presentation titled
"Media training: triumphs or traversties. Experience from southern Africa”.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/moldova.ppt

119. 2003: The journalism of poverty and the poverty of journalism. Presentation to
International Communications Forum, Cape Town, April 5-9 2003.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/poverty.doc

120. 2003: Excellence in South African newspaper journalism 2002: a bright time and
place. Speech as convenor judge, Mondi Paper Newspaper Journalism Awards. 9
April¸ Awards ceremony, Johannesburg.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/mondi03.doc

121. 2003: Key documents for African media. A briefing for SANEF.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/briefingsanef

122. 2003: Closing the loop between research, policy and practice. Article for website:
Networking Africa's future: lessons of empowerment from communities.
KwaMaritane, Pilanesberg. April. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Closing%20the
%20loop%20between%20research.doc

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123. 2003. The journalism of poverty and the poverty of journalism. Paper and
presentation to International Communications Forum, Cape Town, April 5-9 2003.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/poverty.doc

124. 2002: Taking cyberjournalism seriously: milking the medium. Presentation to

Highway Africa conference, Johannesburg, September 2002.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/hapresentation02.swf

125. 2002: Nepad news - the good, the bad and the ugly. Presentation to Highway
Africa conference, Johannesburg, September.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/nepadmedia.doc

126. 2002: New Media and development: learning from whence we come. Based on
presentation to Highway Africa conference, Johannesburg, September.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/NewMedia.doc

127. 2002: All change: environmental journalism meets the 21 st century. Paper
presented at International Institute for Communications Conference, Johannesburg
31 September. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/allchange1.doc

128.2002: Editor and contributor to conference report on Highway Africa 2002.

Formerly at: http://www.highwayafrica.org.za/2002report/HAINSI%7E1.pdf

129.2002: Building effective media liaison in the public sector. Presentation to

workshop of Gauteng legislature. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/gauteng.htm

130.2002: More media for southern Africa? The place of politics, economics and
convergence in developing media density. prepared for: Convergence: Technology,
Culture And Social Impacts. International Research Seminar: 6-10 May.
Graduate Programme in Cultural and Media Studies, University of Natal, Durban
Southern African and South-South Working Group on Media, Culture and
Communication.

131.2002: Speech at Award ceremony for Mondi Paper Newspaper Journalism

competition. 13 March. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/mondispeech.doc

132. 2002: Comments on the Media Diversity and Development Bill, 27 February.
Submitted to Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/mddacomments.doc

133.2001: Networking journalism teachers in southern Africa. Presentation at

Southern African Development Community (SADC) media trainers seminar,

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http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/sadc/index.htm

134.2001. It’s raining training. Keynote presentation to National Community Radio

Forum, Johannesburg. 3 August. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/ncrftransp.ppt

135.2001: Convergence is king. Keynote presentation to SABC staffers for New

Media Day event, 1 June.

136.2001: Presentation on remote sensing, Freedom Forum First Amendment Online

conference. March 22.

137. 2000/1: Guest lectures on South African media at: University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill; Belmont University, Nashville; Boston University; State University of
New Orleans ("Is there still racism in South African media?", March 3); University of
Southern California, Los Angeles; Pennsylvania State University ("Seeing past race:
the politics of the Human Rights Commission Inquiry into media racism in post-
Apartheid South Africa," March 15).

138. 2000. Harnessing media power for tourism development, Presentation to Minister
of Environment and Tourism, Mr Valli Moosa, Johannesburg, 6 December

139. 2000. The Media, Research and Racial Representation in Post-Apartheid South
Africa. Paper presented to African Studies Association conference, Nashville,
November 11-14.

140. 2000: Between the techno–ignorant and the techno–arrogant. Address to

Highway Africa 2000 conference, Grahamstown, 11 September.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/techno.htm

141. 2000. Deracialisation, democracy and development: transformation of the South

African media 1994-2000. Paper presented at: Political Economy of the Media
conference, held by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of
Natal Durban, September 2000.

142. 2000. South Africa contemplates the convergence of cultural content with
information and communication technology. Panel discussion at ICT 2000
conference in August 2000, Link Centre, Wits Graduate School of Business,
Johannesburg.

143.2000: From drumbeats to digital communication. Presentation to workshop for

Media Institute of Southern Africa, Namibian chapter, Windhoek, 28 August.

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144.2000: From rock art to wap site design. Keynote presentation at New Media Day
event to SABC executive and staff, Johannesburg, May 25.

145.2000: News media to new media. Presentation to board of Times Media Ltd,
Johannesburg, 20 April.

146.2000: Old continent, new media. Presentation at Freedom Forum Technology

Conference for Journalism Educators. San Francisco, 28 March.

1999. Partners for success in African Online Media. Presentation to SABC News
executive, Johannesburg, 18 October.

147. 1999. The digital manipulation debate: Africa challenging the dominant
paradigm. Paper presented to seminar on Ethics, Media Code of Practice and
Journalism Training in Africa, Accra, 20 -23 September.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/ACCRA.rtf

148.1999. Impact of short course training on SADC journalists. Presentation to

Regional Media Training Workshop. Arranged by the Nordic-SADC Journalism
Centre, Maputo, 24-27 April.

149.1999. Communications theory for government communicators. Presentation to

Eastern Cape Government Communications Indaba, 21-23 April, East London.

150.1999. Relations between a listed company and the media. Presentation to Old
Mutual Media Workshop, Cape Town 25 February.

151. 1998. Member of panel on Technology and the Future of African Media,
Discussion Forum, The Freedom Forum African Center. Johannesburg, 16
November.

152. 1998: Journalism Education at the Crossroads: re-thinking the needs of

university, industry and democracy in the Third World. Position paper for University
Media Educators’ meeting, Commonwealth Press Union Editors Forum, Universiti
Sains Malaysia, School of Communication, 21 October 1998.

153.1998: Broadcasting: it’s jay-in, jay-out. Paper presented at 20th Annual

Conference of the Southern African Communication Association (Sacomm), 17-18
September, Rand Afrikaanse University, Johannesburg.

154. 1998: The role of broadcasting in the future - principles and policy. Presentation
to Broadcasting Policy Colloquium, Kopanong Premier Protea Hotel, Benoni, 15-17
March

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155. 1998: Media and democracy in Southern Africa: southern view. Paper presented
at North-South Seminar on Media and Democracy, Nordic-SADC Journalism
Centre, Maputo, 4 - 7 March.

156. 1998: How valuable is journalism education? Address at seminar, Freedom

Forum Africa Center, Johannesburg, 23 February.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/Research/Journalism%20education/valuejourn.htm

157. 1998: (ed). Rhodes University Department of Journalism and Media Studies -
Response to the Green Paper on Broadcasting. Submitted to Department of
Communications, South African government. 15 February.

158. 1997: Harnessing information technology for Africa’s independent media: plant
the crops at the start of the rainy season. Paper delivered at conference on The
Sustainability of Independent Media in southern Africa, the Media Institute of
Southern Africa (MISA), Victoria Falls, October.
159. http:// guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/crops.htm

160. 1997: When a new medium comes along: Internet. The elements for a strategy.
Workshop on New Media, SABC, Johannesburg, October.

161. 1996: Community media: what is it? Keynote paper presented to Community
Voices conference, Media Institute of Southern Africa, Mangochi (Malawi), October.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/commmediamisa.rtf

162. 1997: Learning about the learning sector. Consultative conference between the
media industry and journalism trainers. South African National Editors Forum,
Grahamstown, September. (http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/INDEJRN1.doc)

163. 1997: Accountability of the media to society: reality or myth. Presentation to

conference on Media Accountability, Technikon Pretoria, Pretoria, July.
164. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/Research/Democracy/accountable.htm

165. 1997: Media and Racism in Mandela’s Rainbow Nation. Paper presented to:
Conference on Prime Time for Tolerance: Journalism and the Challenge of Racism.
International Federation of Journalists World Conference, Bilbao, May.
166. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/Research/Racism%20in%20the%20media/mandela.htm

167. 1997: International Commonwealth Practice on Foreign Press Ownership,

conference on Foreign Ownership of the Press, Parliamentary Portfolio Committee
on Communications, National Assembly, Cape Town, April.

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168. 1997: Towards 2000: independent media in southern Africa. Paper presented to:
Consultative Conference, Buntstift, Johannesburg, April.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/buntstift.htm

169.1997: South Africa reporting Africa. Paper given at conference on Africa

Reporting Africa, Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, Johannesburg,
February.

170.1996: The power of research and the research of power. Keynote paper at
Communication and the Empowerment of Civil Society conference, 10th biennial
conference of the African Council of Communication Educators (ACCE), Cape
Town, November. http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/acce.htm

171. 1996: The online future for Commonwealth press. Paper presented at
Commonwealth Press Union editors conference, Cape Town, October.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/Research/New%20Media/commonwealth.htm

172. 1996: The alternative press - private and community newspapers and
newsagencies. Paper presented to conference “Reporting Southern Africa”, Institute
for the Advancement of Journalism, Johannesburg, October.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Altiaj.rtf

173.1996: Presentation to Comtask on Ownership of the Press. Research report for

government Task Group into Government Communications, Johannesburg, 1 July.

174. 1996: The Internet: a Goldmine for Editors and Journalists. Paper presented to
third conference of World Editors Forum titled Back to Basics, Washington, May
1996. (Published as New Media Lab, occasional publication no. 1; abridged version
published in Rhodes Journalism Review, 11, 1996; also published at
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/Goldmine.htm

175. 1996: Appropriate curriculum design for teaching journalism. Paper presented at
conference "Developments in Higher Education", Johannesburg, May 1996.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/Research/Journalism%20education/curricjrn.htm

176. 1995: Grahamstown Community River, keynote address to launch of

Grahamstown Community Radio, 4 November.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/Research/Alternative%20media/comradio.htm

177. 1995: Developers and Communication in South Africa, a paper presented at the
training course on 'Managing Development in the New South Africa' organised by
the Development Bank of Southern Africa, 3rd October.

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179.1994: Challenges facing the community newspapers. Speech at the launch of

Nemato Voice, Port Alfred. November.

180.1994: Defining Development and Development Media, speech to East Cape

News Agency workshop, 15 -17 May.

181.1993: Community Newspapers. Paper presented on behalf of South, Saamstaan,

Namakwanuus, Media Trainers Forum, Media Training and Development Trust and
Peninsula Technikon Journalism Department, at conference titled “Developing
Community Newspapers”, organised by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung,
Johannesburg. 7-8 October.

182. 1993: Political Intolerance and the Media. Paper delivered to conference
organised by the Institute for a Democratic Alternative in SA (Idasa); the Institute for
Multiparty Democracy (MPD) and the United Nations Special Committee Against
Apartheid, Somerset West. July.

183. 1993: The challenge of the Independent Media Diversity Trust. Speech at the
launch of the IMDT, Johannesburg. August.

184.1993: Good Governance and the Role of the Media. Paper delivered to
Democracy and Good Governance Workshop, Stellenbosch, University of Western
Cape. Published in proceedings of the conference. 13 August.

185.1993: What future for the Alternative Press? Paper presented to Rhodes
University Winter School. June.

186. 1993: What criteria for measuring media diversity? Paper delivered at policy
consultation of the Independent Media Diversity Trust, Johannesburg. 14 June.
http://guyberger.ru.ac.za/fulltext/What%20criteria%20for%20measuring
%20diversity.doc

187. 1993: "Princess Di and the Principle of Diversity". Speech delivered at a briefing
of diplomats on the Independent Media Diversity Trust, Cape Town, 20 February.

188.1993: De- linking development and democracy: implications for press freedom in
Southern Africa. Paper delivered at Making Media Work conference, Rhodes
University, Grahamstown.

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189. 1993: The small town press and the changing South Africa. Paper written for
Provincial Press Publishers Association conference, Langebaan, West Cape.

190. 1992: Freedom of information and the mass media. Paper delivered to annual
conference of the Library and Information Workers Organisation, Peninsula
Technikon, Cape Town. 26 September.

191. 1992: The role of student newspapers Speech to SA Students Press Union
training course, University of Cape Town. September.

192. 1992: Training for Transformation: Journalism in the 1990s. Paper delivered to
South and Southern African Media seminar organised by the Nieman Foundation
and the African-American Institute, Johannesburg. July.

193. 1992: The promise of the present press: scenarios for the 90s. Paper presented
to Media and Democracy seminar, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. 10 April.

194. 1992: Journalism and Ethics. Speech to SA Students Press Union training
course, University of Western Cape. March.

195. 1991: Freedom of Speech and the Press in a Changing South Africa. Paper
presented at Sowetan Press Freedom Seminar, Johannesburg. 19 October.

196. 1991: What is alternative about the alternative press? Paper delivered at
University of Cape Town African Studies seminar August, 6; published in Centre for
African Studies newsletter, 18 October.

12. OTHER CONFERENCES AND PROGRAMMES ATTENDED:

I have attended every Highway Africa conference since its inception in 1996. Other
events not cited elsewhere in this CV are reported below:

2008. The future of civic media. Knight News Challenge Winners Conference at MIT,
Boston. June 11-13.

2008. Interactive Media Conference. Las Vegas. 14-15 May.

2007. Invited expert to Africa Media Initiative workshop, Mount Grace Hotel,
Johannesburg, 1-2 December.

2007. Invited expert to UNESCO consultation on Media Development Indicators, Paris,

10-11 December.

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2007. Visiting scholar, School of Journalism and Communication, University of
Queensland, Australia (two months).

2007. Visiting guest lecturer, Tampere University, School of 21-23 September, 2007.

2007. Launch of African Media Development Initiative report. Nairobi, Kenya. 15

January.

2006: Conference titled “Point of convergence 2”. Convened by LINK Centre and the
Mandela Institute, Wits University, Johannesburg. 30 November

2006: SABC-SA National Editors Forum conference on “Media and Society: Gender and
Media in South Africa”. 18 – 19 October, Sandton.

2006: Conference titled “Point of convergence. A Law, Economics, and Regulation

workshop on the Challenges of Convergence: new technologies, policies and
regulations under the Electronic Communications Act 2005”. Convened by LINK Centre
and the Mandela Institute, Wits University, Johannesburg. 5 October.

2006: Africa Media Development Initiative, Technical Workshop, convened by BBC

World Service Trust, Nairobi, Kenya, 28-29 September.

2006: Second Workshop on Evaluating Journalism Education and Training at Tertiary

Institutions - developing a methodology for Southern Africa. Rhodes University,
Grahamstown. 8 September.

2006: African Media Development Initiative (AMDI) workshop on Strengthening Africa’s

Private Independent Media, Johannesburg, 19-20 June.

2006: Asia Media Summit 2005. May 9 - 11, 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2006: Conference on Broadcasting Reforms, convened by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung,

Southern African Broadcasters Association, and Media Institute of Southern Africa.
Maputo, 13-16 August.

2006: Brainstorming Meeting: Future and options for state-owned newspapers and
news agencies, convened by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.16-18 June, Magaliesberg,
Gauteng.

2005. World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, November 15.

2005. CNN-MultiChoice African journalism awards. 25 June 2005. Nairobi, Kenya.

2005. What to do with state controlled print media? – A brainstorming exercise,

convened by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. 27 - 29 May, Knorhoek Guesthouse,
Stellenbosch.

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2005. African Media Development Facility Meeting, arranged by BBC World Service
Trust and Reuters Foundation, Hotel Meridien, Dakar, Senegal
Wednesday, May 4th, 2005.

2005: Workshop on Evaluating Journalism Education and Training at Tertiary

Institutions - developing a methodology for Southern Africa. Rhodes University,
Grahamstown 12 June 2005.

2004. African Economic Editors Forum, Johannesburg, 6-8 December.

2004. The Role and Place of the Media in the Information Society in Africa and the Arab
Region, Conference convened by Orbicom. Marrakech, Morocco. 22-24 November.

2004. Africa Telecom. Convened by the International Telecommunications Union. Cairo,

May 1-8.

2003. African Economic Editors Forum, Johannesburg, 26-30 October.

2003: Networking Africa's future: lessons of empowerment from communities.
KwaMaritame, Pilanesberg. April.

2002: Roundtable: Building Civil Society with Sustainable Media: Models and Options,
Sanur, Bali. Sept 9-12, Aspen Institute.

2001: Freedom Forum First Amendment Online conference. New York, March.

2001: Before the Fall. Conference on New Media, University of Berkeley, California,
March 22.

2000. African Studies Association annual conference, Nashville, November.

2000. Independent Broadcasting Authority workshop on elections and media;

Johannesburg, January.

1999. The role of the media in elections. Electoral Institute of South Africa, Country
Club, Johannesburg, 26 February.

1998. Economics Journalism for Trainers. Economic Development Institute, World

Bank. Nairobi, Kenya. 14-18 December.

1998. Reporting Africa: return to the agenda. Centre for Journalism Studies, University
of Wales, Cardiff. November.

1998: Technology and the Future of African Media. Discussion forum. The Freedom
Forum African Center, Johannesburg, 16 November

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1998: Commonwealth Press Union Editors Forum, Universiti Sains Malaysia, School of
Communication, 21 October.

1998: Towards the New Millennium - New Challenges for Public Broadcasting. 30
September - 2 October. France: Biarritz.

1997: Second World Television Forum, United Nations, New York, 19 November.

1997: The Sustainability of Independent Media in Southern Africa, the Media Institute of
Southern Africa (MISA), Victoria Falls, October.

1997: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Human Rights Journalism in South
Africa, Applied Broadcasting Centre, Johannesburg, 3 October.

1997: Media, Truth and Reconciliation: A workshop for journalists covering the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission, organised by the Media Peace Centre, January 31 to
February 1, 1997, Cape Town.

1996: The Open Democracy Bill: Central Controversies, conference held by Freedom of
Expression Institute, Marula Lodge, Northern Province.

1996: International Press Institute annual conference, Jerusalem.

1996: FIEJ and World Editors Forum conferences, Washington

1996: Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conference; Salt Lake City.

1995: Poynter Institute course for Journalism Trainers.

1995: Freedom of information conference, Grahamstown, February.

1995: Stockholm - University of Stockholm visit and presentation on South African

media.

1995: Paris - World Newspaper Congress (FIEJ)

1995: Cote d'Ivoire- Launch of Resarec (African Development Communications

Research and Training Network)

1993: FIEJ (WAN) conference, Berlin.

1993: Newspaper Press Union annual conference, Cape Town.

1992: Newspaper Press Union annual conference, Manzini (Swaziland)

1992: International Press Institute annual conference, Budapest

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1992: FIEJ (WAN) annual conference, Prague

1992: The Alternative Press, Seminar at the Poynter Institute, Florida

1992: Training trainers inaugural workshop of the Institute for the Advancement of
Journalism (University of the Witwatersrand)

13. CONSULTANCIES & OTHER ACTIVITIES:

2008. Consultant on Freedom House’s Index of Global Internet Freedom as applied to

two African countries.

2007. Reviewer for Open Society Institute of report titled “Meeting Their Mandates? An
Assessment and Analysis of the South African Media and ICT Statutory and Public
Interest Bodies.” Section: “SABC News in review”.

2006: Advisor to Commission on Investigation into SABC’s alleged “blacklisting” of

expert commentators.

2005: Co-commissioner on SABC inquiry into non-showing of TV footage of disruption

of rally addressed by deputy president.

2005: Conducted an evaluation for Thompson Foundation of its training provided to

Botswana TV.

2005: Co-wrote (with Robert Brand) an expert opinion on the protection of journalists’
confidential sources in the case of Imvume Ltd. V Mail&Guardian.

1998: Impact assessment of training activities of Nordic SADC Journalism Centre. This
consultancy project entailed research interviews with trainees in five SADC countries.

1995: Research for Swedish International Development Agency (Sida):

On commission from Sida, I researched many of the media projects in South Africa that
were funded from Sweden in 1992-1994, and made recommendations for that country's
future media support policies in South Africa.

14. OTHER INTERESTS

Reading, bird watching, hiking, poetry, origami.

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