ABSTRACT

Guy Berger is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University South Africa. His research interests are new media, media policy, convergence, and journalism education, and he is the author of a recent UNESCO study on media law in ten South African countries. He is active in the South African National Editors Forum and winner of the organisation’s Nat Nakasa Award for media integrity in 2006. He writes a fortnightly column for South Africa’s leading independent paper The Mail and Guardian.