RJR edition 28

ARTICLES

• Editorial: The Pay-The-Price Edition
• Contributors
• Guest Editorial by Elinor Sisulu: Breaking the ideological stranglehold
• The latest books
• The off-beat eye of the interviewer: Tim Cohen interviews Fred de Vries
• A complex, brilliant woman: Larissa Klazinga reviews Don Pinnock’s Ruth First
• Forerunner to the resistance press: Robert Brand looks at James Zug’s The Guardian
• The very thorough lens: Harold Gess reviews Kenneth Kobre’s photojournalism textbook
• Media leadership: Asta Rau talks about a collection of African newsroom wisdom
• The vanishing book review – an essay by Alexandra Dodd
• A different point of view: New stories, new viewpoints from World Press Photos
• Review asks: “Is this simply xenophobia?”
• The burning man story by Ray Hartley
• Searching for the roots of the violent ‘othering’ by Adrian Hadland
• The watchdog that never barked by Ian Glenn
• Does the pandering perpetuate the xenophobia by William Bird
• The disconnect between ubuntu and reality by Chris Kabwato
• A symptom that defies simple analysis by Sim Kyazze
• Testing the rhetoric by Terry Kurgan
• Focus on Zimbabwean media
• Operation submission: moulding the media to parrot Mugabe mantras by Vincent Kahiya
• From bad to worse for Zimbabwean journalists by Tom Rhodes
• Distrust and speculation by Sandra Roberts
• In the grip of silence by Elinor Sisulu
• Staying in touch by Arther Chatora
• South Africa: taking stock
• The price of freedom: South African media in 2008 by Robert Brand
• Sing a swansong for the SABC as we know it by Guy Berger
• ABC: the funding conundrum by Reg Rumney
• The nudge of ‘nation-building’ by Steven Lang
• The anomaly of SAfm by Steven Lang
• When commercial can also be community by Peter du Toit and Asta Rau
• New world, new models, new responsibilities by John Battersby
• Desperately desiring attitude change: the news media and the country’s image abroad by Wadim Schreiner
• Photography and oral history project: people living in Durban’s noxious south basin by Jenny Gordon and Marijke du Toit: Carol Brown reviews Breathing Spaces
• African issues
• The responsibility to report by Allan Thompson
• Uganda’s under-reported war by Karen Williams
• The interpretation of conflict: can journalists go further? asks Fackson Banda
• Getting and telling the other story by Paula Fray
• Cartooning in a time of calamity by Andy Mason
• Being a reporter, being a human by Pieter van Zyl
• Reporting Aids
• Media messages under the microscope by Segun Ige
• Mobilising mobile by Peter Benjamin
• Sacrificing the woman for the child by Marion Stevens
• Brave new digital world
• What would an African Web 2.0 look like? by Jarred Cinman
• Digital natives… pffff by Mark Comerford
• When the audience decides by Megan Knight
• YouTubing Africa: old patterns and new possibilities by Melissa Wall
• Lessons from a converging newsroom by Andrew Trench
• Southern African experiments by Elvira van Noort
• Convergence: business as usual by Hilton Tarrant
• From content to conversation: can cellphones be used for journalism? by Guy Berger
• Digital mapping: a tool for getting attention quickly by Erik Hersman
• Essay: On the importance of imagining. An edited version of Breyten Breytenbach’s keynote address at the 11th Time of Writer