202pp., paperback, Staging Post, Johannesburg, 2025

ISBN: 9781067266400

A collection of essays by current lecturers, recent graduates and distinguished alumni on South African journalistic theory and practice and journalism education through the lens of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, from the 1970s to the 2020s.

Contributions include:

"Disrupt: An editor's reflection on the role of the student press during #FeesMustFall and #RUReferenceList" by Mako Muzenda

"A meaningful contribution: Rhodes JMS and the evolving imperatives of our times" by Guy Berger

"Subterfuge, risk and refuge: Random thoughts on a four-year sojourn at Rhodes University" by Keyan Tomaselli

"A trade and not a profession" by Peter Bruce

"Learning to buck: A vignette of Rhodeo" by Phillippa Yaa de Villers

"Rhodes Music Radio & The Oppidan Press: Putting theory into practice" by Tumelo Tladi

"Teaching for a digital 'now' and the future: Will AI help or hurt higher education?" by Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam.

David Mann is a writer, editor and art critic from Johannesburg. Currently, he works as the in-house writer for the interdisciplinary arts incubator, The Centre for the Less Good Idea.

Tumelo Tladi is a storyteller working as a writer, editor, screenwriter and filmmaker. She co-wrote and was first assistant director on the TV series, Map of Brooklyn, and was screenwriter on the short film No Vows, No Cows.

MAKERS AND SHAPERS OF MEDIA, the School of Journalism and Media Studies at 50

: Mann (D.) & Tladi (T.) with De Vega (T.) & Garman (A.) eds.

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