Part-time Lecturer/Associate Lecturer

The Department of Journalism and Media Studies in the School of Literature, Language and Media is seeking to employ a Part-time 50% Lecturer/Associate Lecturer in Development Communications on a three-year contract.

The successful candidate will coordinate and teach our Development Communications certificates, which have both theoretical and practical elements. Applicants should be committed to excellence in both communications and teaching. Preference will be given to those with experience in the field of development communications and teaching.

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Courses For Journalists
Wits Journalism is offering a number of certificate and short courses for those who want to brush up on their journalism skills.

Journalism professor’s appointment raises transformation questions

The appointment of Caxton professor of Journalism Anton Harber as editor-in-chief of 24-hour news channel ENCA, has raised questions about transformation issues at the private broadcaster, as well throughout the South African media industry.

Critics have said the appointment of Harber is not a step forward for the racial and gender transformation of the media industry which they say continues to be dominated by white males.

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“I grew up in a prison” – the story of a gangster who became a plumber

“I grew up in prison,” says Thabo Pule, who has been in and out of correctional centres since he was 16 years old. “I was never sentenced for long periods but I was always on trial and would get 5 years and then 3 years and then 5 again since 1998.”

Then, last year Thabo got out of prison for the last time. He found an initiative called Youth Build and cleaned up his life.

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SANEF to research new rules towards editorial independence and advertising

A council meeting of the SA National Editors’ Forum was held in Cape Town on Saturday February 13, 2016. Council deliberated extensively on the changing media landscape, the commercial and other pressures and their implications on editorial independence.

The consequences of such pressures have manifested themselves in the form of direct proprietal/managerial interference in editorial decision-making processes and indirectly through the blurring of the lines between advertising and editorial.

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Uganda elections approach amid hostile environment for media

Demonstrations against the government are a routine affair in the Ugandan capital Kampala, and Andrew Lwanga thought it would be just another day at work when he was assigned to cover a protest march by a few dozen unemployed youth on January 12, 2015.

He ended the day in a hospital bed, paralyzed from the waist down, after a senior police officer beat him for taking pictures of scuffles between the police and the demonstrators, an attack caught on camera. (According to news reports, the officerwas arrested and charged with assault; the case is pending).

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The Science Inside #01 – NETFLIX

Since Netflix has hit South Africa, this episode is all about our favourite kind of box, the TV!

We kick off the show with some Netflix background and a short history of television. We bust the myth that dogs can’t see TV, and speak to the creator of content just for pooches.

You can find out why reality shows seem so addictive.Lastly, we speak to Dr David Kirby about science consultants to movies, and which films are the most and least accurate.

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The Science Inside #02 - Zika Virus

The Zika virus is making headlines, and this week show tells you all you need to know about it. Experts talk to us about the virus and their carrier, mosquitoes. We hear how geneticists are starting to modify human embryos to fight disease, and find out how diseases move between people and continents.

Later in the show we speak to the team behind developing an HIV vaccine.

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The Science Inside #03 – Valentine’s Day

We’ve made romance scientific with #TheScienceInside Valentine’s Day.

We’ll tell you what South Africans are spending on love. A love biologist tells you why you find someone sexy and why you should be ordering hot drinks on dates.

You’ll hear how marketing companies make sure not to annoy singles on Vday, and find out the secrets of a couple counselor.

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PEN South Africa Student Writing Prize

PEN South Africa is a writers’ organisation that defends freedom of expression and promotes literature. We believe in the power of writing to effect change and inform the way we see the world and ourselves.

With this in mind we are holding the PEN South Africa Student Writing Prize, which calls on young writers to submit fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry on the topic of the recent #FeesMustFall movement and the student protests..

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