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Authors: Amner, Roderick J
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142656 , vital:38099 , DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2015.1041305
Description: Tony Harcup is a self-confessed ‘hackademic’, a term which he defines in his Oxford dictionary of journalism as ‘a journalist who goes on to work in journalism education where they combine the roles of journalism (hack) and academic’ (p. 121). Harcup explains that hackademics perform this balancing act in the ‘hackademy’, a curious space within academe where journalism training intersects with Journalism Studies (a field of study which is nowadays often granted ‘upper case’ status), ‘sometimes with mutual respect and insight, sometimes with mutual suspicion and hostility’ (ibid.). And this tension is never far from the surface in many of the 1 300 definitions in this useful and absorbing dictionary.
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Date Issued: 2015

Authors: Wasserman, Herman , Steenveld, Lynette N , Strelitz, Larry N , Amner, Roderick J , Boshoff, Priscilla A , Mathurine, Jude , Garman, Anthea
Date: 2012
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143571 , vital:38263 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/content/ruhome/documents/JMS Submission to Press Freedom Commission.pdf
Description: Prof Duncan has outlined the relative merits and demerits of self-regulation, co-regulation and deregulation, with which we are in broad agreement. She has also ably dealt with the three functions of regulatory bodies, namely the setting of ground rules for the industry to ensure best practice; enforcement of these; and adjudication of claims and counter claims re journalistic practice (Duncan 2012, p17). Finally, she has also taken up the issue of the necessity of accepting Third Party Complaints as one of the fundamental mechanisms by which citizens can make complaints on the basis of principle, rather than being personally aggrieved. While we are in broad agreement with her on these issues, we would like to highlight some further points for consideration.
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Date Issued: 2012

Authors: Amner, Roderick J
Date: 2011
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142645 , vital:38098 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02560054.2011.545564
Description: A series of town-hall-like meetings called the ‘community dialogues’ were conducted in 2009 by the Daily Dispatch newspaper in East London, under the banner of public/civic journalism, a global journalistic reform movement begun in the United States in the late 1980s. the editorial leadership of the newspaper imagined a number of core journalistic and civic purposes for the dialogues and succeeded in achieving some of these. However, the newspaper's claim that the dialogues could help to build ‘horizontal bridges’ between diverse communities in East London is critically examined through the example of two community dialogues which took place in neighbouring locations - the predominantly white, middle-class suburb of Beacon Bay, and the informal African settlement of Nompumelelo - on consecutive days in 2009. This article argues that social inequalities, particularly acute in the South African context, may preclude the emergence of a shared vision of the common good, and that joint deliberation between diverse social groups in the pursuit of consensus may not be realistic or even an appropriate goal, especially if it means ratifying an unjust status quo.
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Date Issued: 2011

Authors: Amner, Roderick J
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159438 , vital:40297 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139354
Description: This is a tale of two in-depth stories, both produced by one Daily Dispatch journalist, Gcina Nstaluba, in 2009. One was wildly successful - it helped change the face of the government's housing policy and won Ntsaluba SA Story of the Year at the 2010 Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards. The other was deemed a dismal failure by Ntsaluba himself. Why? And what can these stories teach us and our students about doing journalism in South Africa?
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Date Issued: 2010

Authors: Amner, Roderick J
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159366 , vital:40291 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139908
Description: Rod Amner looks at how a small South African newspaper is managing to punch well above its weight.
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Date Issued: 2009

Authors: Amner, Roderick J
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142680 , vital:38101 , https://doi.org/10.1386/jams.1.2.335_4
Description: Film Review: Hollywood on Safari.
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Date Issued: 2009

Authors: Amner, Roderick J
Date: 2003
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159102 , vital:40267 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146296
Description: When I proposed to 26 third-year journalism students that our writing class take inspiration from an idea pioneered in places as unfashionable and inhospitable as the former Soviet Union and Nepal, I should have expected the icy stares. But happily, within five weeks, this winter of classroom discontent, had begun to thaw into a tentative spring of journalistic and pedagogical innovation.
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Date Issued: 2003

Authors: Amner, Roderick J
Date: 2003
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454938 , vital:75388 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146296
Description: When I proposed to 26 third-year journalism students that our writing class take inspiration from an idea pioneered in places as unfashiona-ble and inhospitable as the former Soviet Union and Nepal, I should have expected the icy stares. But happily, within five weeks, this winter of classroom discontent, had begun to thaw into a tentative spring of journalistic and pedagogical innovation.
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