Enkele indrukke oor aspekte van Suid-Afrikaanse joernalistieke opleiding
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Date
2013
Authors
Diederichs, Pedro
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Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State
Abstract
Eleven years ago the South African journalism fraternity got a huge wake-up
call following a damning journalism skills audit report in which some serious
shortcomings concerning professionalism in newsrooms were highlighted.
Naval-gazing by the majority of the media role players (educators and industry)
agreed with most of the findings of the South African National Editors’ Forum’s
first skills report published in May 2002 (Sanef 2002a). This was followed by a
second audit in 2004 focusing on the state of middle management skills in the
same environment with much the same conclusion concerning skills gaps that
needed urgent attention (Sanef 2004). In this article answers to the research
questions give an overview of some of the impressions of leading South African
educators and trainers around an age-old question of what could be the answer to
the “correct” way of training newcomers to the profession and what is perceived
as the biggest stumbling block in teaching entry-level journalists. This is certainly
nothing new, but the answers received are presented and deliberated on against
the background of the author’s personal experience as a practising journalist and
journalism educator over a period of 40 years. It may be that in certain areas of
journalism practice and journalism education opportunities have gone begging
and lessons could have been learnt. At the same time acknowledgement should
be given for efforts made to counter the sometimes wild and opportunistic claims
that the quality of journalism practice and education in South Africa leaves much
to be desired.
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South Africa, Journalism, Professionalism
Citation
Diederichs, P. (2013). Enkele indrukke oor aspekte van Suid-Afrikaanse joernalistieke opleiding.Communitas, 18(1), 21-35.