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ADJ PROF FRANZ KRÜGER EMAIL: FKR@MWEB.CO.ZA ADDRESS: TWITTER: @FRANZKRUGER • WWW.LINKEDIN.COM/IN/FRANZ-KRÜGER OVERVIEW  EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN MEDIA PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP POSITIONS, INCLUDING IN MAJOR CHANGE MANAGEMENT ROLES  AUTHOR OF TWO BOOKS AND MANY BOOK CHAPTERS, ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS  TEACHER & RESEARCHER  CONSULTANT AND COMMENTATOR  SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM, CONSULTANCY AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE INNOVATOR IN MEDIA AND JOURNALISM  PERSONAL DETAILS FULL NAME DOB ID GENDER MALE FRANZ THEODOR KRÜGER EXPERIENCE 2022 - ADJUNCT PROFESSOR IN THE WITS CENTRE FOR JOURNALISM WITS UNIVERSITY, JOHANNESBURG 2021 – 2022 VISITING RESEARCHER DURING 6-MONTH SABBATICAL FROM WITS UNIVERSITY NLA MEDIEHØGSKOLEN, KRISTIANSAND, NORWAY  During this time, I delivered guest lectures at NLA MedieHøgskolen, Kristiansand; Oslomet University in Oslo; the University of Stockholm and the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. 2016 – 2021 HEAD OF JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT WITS UNIVERSITY, JOHANNESBURG  As head of one of the leading journalism training institutions in South Africa, I led a team of some 30 full-time staff with an overall annual budget of around R30m ($1.5m).
My role included academic leadership; strategic leadership; public and stakeholder engagement; as well as administration, including HR and financial management and fundraising.

I led a process to create the framework for a new phase of growth, with a refined focus, internal reorganization and a changed status in the university.
The Wits Centre for Journalism was created as a result.  Designed the curricula for several core courses at Wits  Edited the website www.journalism.co.za for several years  Initiated the State of the Newsroom project, which provides an annual overview of the state of SA journalism  Initiated Ajenda, a network of African journalism schools 2009 – 2020 WITS UNIVERSITY, JOHANNESBURG FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF THE WITS RADIO ACADEMY  The Radio Academy is a unit within Wits Journalism that teaches the department’s postgraduate radio courses, conducts research, offers courses for community radio practitioners and has built co-production partnerships with community radio.
I secured support from a number of funders for the creation of the Radio Academy.  Oversaw the relaunch of Voice of Wits, the campus station  Initiated Radio Days Africa, which has taken place annually since 2009 and has become the biggest gathering of radio practitioners on the continent. 2005 – 2014 MAIL & GUARDIAN OMBUD  Part-time readers’ editor 2000 – 2009 FREELANCER  Correspondent for UK, Dutch, US and other radio; writer for SA media;  Part-time lecturer for the new journalism programme at Wits University  Consultant; trainer and lecturer at SA media houses, as well as universities and training organisations in SA, Ethiopia, Namibia, Madagascar, Kosovo and elsewhere 1994 - 1999 SA BROADCASTING CORPORATION, JOHANNESBURG NATIONAL EDITOR OF RADIO NEWS  Part of the first post-apartheid management team charged with turning the apartheid state mouthpiece into a public broadcaster 2  Oversaw major editorial projects like elections and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings 1990 - 1994 EAST CAPE NEWS AGENCIES, GRAHAMSTOWN FIRST GROUP EDITOR  This was a grouping of alternative and anti-apartheid news agencies based in four cities in the Eastern Cape 1988 - 1989 THE GUARDIAN, BBC FOCUS ON AFRICA AND SOUTHSCAN, LONDON FREELANCE SUB-EDITOR AND PRODUCER  Undertaken while studying for an MA at City University, London 1986 - 1988 EAST LONDON NEWS AGENCY, EAST LONDON FOUNDING NEWS EDITOR  This was part of the alternative media, later forming part of East Cape News Agencies 1983 - 1985 DAILY DISPATCH, EAST LONDON REPORTER, SUB-EDITOR AND LATER DEPUTY CHIEF SUB-EDITOR 1982 GENERAL NEWS REPORTER WINDHOEK ADVERTISER, WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA 1981 GENERAL SECRETARY NATIONAL UNION OF SA STUDENTS, CAPE TOWN EDUCATION 2013 - 2019 WITS UNIVERSITY, JOHANNESBURG PHD ◾ Thesis: Signposts in an Earthquake: Journalism ethics and the political transition in South Africa CITY UNIVERSITY, LONDON 1988 - 1989 MA IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM ◾ Study made possible by British Council scholarship 3 ◾ Thesis: Word Wars: SA media under the emergency.
Awarded with distinction 1978 - 1980 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN BA, MAJORS: ENGLISH & GERMAN ◾ Media officer, then Vice President of the SRC 1975 MATRIC DEUTSCHE SCHULE KAPSTADT, CAPE TOWN PUBLICATIONS BOOKS (2013) THE HEALTHY COMMUNITY RADIO STATION JOHANNESBURG: OSISA & WITS RADIO ACADEMY (CO-AUTHORED WITH MIKE SMURTHWAITE AND ROMANUS MONJI) (2006) RADIO JOURNALISM TOOLKIT (JOHANNESBURG: INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JOURNALISM AND STE) (2004) BLACK, WHITE AND GREY: ETHICS IN SA JOURNALISM (CAPE TOWN: DOUBLE STOREY) ◾ The second and third titles are used as prescribed texts by a number of universities and colleges.
BOOK CHAPTERS (2021) WITH HENDRIK BAIRD: R@DIO IN SOUTH AFRICA – AN EXPLORATORY STUDY, IN CHIUMBU, S., & MOTSAATHEBE, G. (EDS) RADIO, PUBLIC LIFE AND CITIZEN DELIBERATION IN SOUTH AFRICA (ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE) (2021) THE ETHICS OF PRIVACY AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST: FROM PRINCIPLE TO APPLICATION, IN: PRICE, L.T., SANDERS, K., & WYATT, W. (EDS): ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO JOURNALISM ETHICS (ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE) (2014) SOUTH AFRICA: GOVERNMENT THREATS AS MEDIA GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER, IN WHITE, A.
(ED) THE TRUST FACTOR: AN EJN REVIEW OF JOURNALISM AND SELF- REGULATION.

AVAILABLE AT HTTPS://ETHICALJOURNALISMNETWORK.ORG/WP- CONTENT/UPLOADS/2016/08/TRUTH-FACTOR-FULL.PDF 4 (2012) FOURTH ESTATE OR FIFTH COLUMN?

THE MEDIA ON THE 2011 CAMPAIGN TRAIL, IN: BOOYSEN, S. (ED) LOCAL ELECTIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA: PARTIES, PEOPLE, POLITICS.
(BLOEMFONTEIN: SUN PRESS AND KONRAD ADENAUER FOUNDATION) (2011) PRESS COUNCILS AND THE DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL LANDSCAPE IN SOUTH AFRICA, IN HYDE-CLARKE, N. (ED) COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA ETHICS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

(CAPE TOWN: HSRC PRESS) (2005) EXCELLENT FEATURES, IN: HADLAND, A.

(ED) CHANGING THE FOURTH ESTATE: ESSAYS ON SA JOURNALISM.
(CAPE TOWN: HSRC PRESS) (2000) EAST CAPE NEWS AGENCIES: REPORTING ON A BLACK HOLE, IN: SWITZER, L. & ADHIKARI, M. (EDS) SOUTH AFRICA’S RESISTANCE PRESS (OHIO UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES) (1991) CISKEI, THE EASTERN CAPE’S DUMPING GROUND, IN: RAMPHELE, M. (ED) RESTORING THE LAND: ENVIRONMENT AND CHANGE IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS (2022) PRECARIOUS PROFESSIONALISM AND TEACHING JOURNALISM: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE.
SUBMITTED TO JOURNALISM PRACTICE, PUBLICATION DECISION PENDING.

(2019) DIFFICULTIES WITH BALANCE: NORMATIVE CONTESTATION, AMBIGUITY AND CHANGE IN REPORTING AIDS DENIALISM.

IN: JOURNALISM, PUBLISHED ONLINE AT HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1177/1464884919837423 (2017) WHAT SHOULD JOURNALISM DO IN A NEW DEMOCRACY?
IN: COMMUNICATIO: SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL FOR COMMUNICATIONS THEORY AND RESEARCH, VOL 43:2, PP 23 – 38 (2016) A TALE OF TWO DEATHS, IN: JOURNALISM STUDIES, PUBLISHED ONLINE ON 13 OCTOBER 2016 AND IN PRINT IN 2018, VOL 39:6, PP 846 – 862 (2016) DISCOURSE ETHICS AND THE MEDIA, IN AFRICAN JOURNALISM STUDIES, VOL 37 NO 1.

PP 21 - 39 (2011) COMMUNITY RADIO NEWS: IN SEARCH OF NEW PUBLIC SPHERES, IN ECQUID NOVI AFRICAN JOURNALISM STUDIES, VOL 32 NO 3.
5 (2005) ETHICAL JOURNALISM IN A TIME OF AIDS, IN: AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AIDS RESEARCH, VOL 4 NO 2.

OTHER (2022) DIGITAL MIGRATION: COURT DELAY UPHOLDS INFORMATION RIGHTS OF POOR SOUTH AFRICANS.

IN: THE CONVERSATION (HTTPS://THECONVERSATION.COM/DIGITAL-MIGRATION-COURT-DELAY-UPHOLDS- INFORMATION-RIGHTS-OF-POOR-SOUTH-AFRICANS-185922) (2022) GREENING AFRICA’S NEWS DESERTS: THE SEARCH FOR SUSTAINABLE LOCAL MEDIA IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.
POLICY PAPER PUBLISHED BY KONRAD ADENAUER STIFTUNG (2022) DISRUPTED MEDIA, DISRUPTED ACADEMY: RETHINKING AFRICAN J-SCHOOLS.
PAPER WRITTEN UNDER A SHORENSTEIN FELLOWSHIP, HARVARD (2005 – 2014) THE OMBUD, A REGULAR COLUMN IN THE MAIL & GUARDIAN (2009) MEDIA COURTS OF HONOUR: SELF-REGULATORY COUNCILS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE (WINDHOEK: FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG) (1986) OPERATION DUNCAN VILLAGE: SECURITY FORCES MOVE IN (A REPORT IN BOOKLET FORM COMPILED FOR THE EAST LONDON CRISIS CENTRE) REPORTS, COLUMNS, OPINION PIECES AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE APPEARED IN ALMOST ALL SOUTH AFRICAN NEWSPAPERS, AND BEEN BROADCAST ON RADIO STATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ABROAD.
TEACHING, SUPERVISION AND RESEARCH  BESIDES AT WITS, I HAVE TAUGHT COURSES AT ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY, THE KOSOVO INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION, THE NELSON MANDELA UNIVERSITY IN PORT ELIZABETH, ANTANANARIVO UNIVERSITY, MADAGASCAR, AND AT SEVERAL JOURNALISM TRAINING INSTITUTIONS.

MY TEACHING HAS FOCUSED ON ETHICS, RADIO JOURNALISM, RADIO STUDIES AND SUB-EDITING, ALTHOUGH I HAVE ALSO TAUGHT MANY OTHER SUBJECTS.
 SUPERVISE STUDENT RESEARCH AT HONOURS AND MASTERS LEVELS ON AN ONGOING BASIS 6 RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN ETHICS, SELF-REGULATION, RADIO, LOCAL AND COMMUNITY MEDIA, SUSTAINABILITY AND JOURNALISM EDUCATION.
 SERVED AS EVALUATOR OF JOURNALISM COURSES AT STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY AND TECHNIKON NORTHERN GAUTENG  SERVED AS EXTERNAL EXAMINER ON JOURNALISM COURSES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG, THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, RHODES UNIVERSITY, MAKHANDA (FORMERLY GRAHAMSTOWN) AND NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, GQEBERHA (THEN PORT ELIZABETH).
 REGULARLY REVIEW SUBMISSIONS FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS BOARD AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS  CHAIR: BOARD OF VOICE OF WITS CAMPUS RADIO (C2012 - 2020)  CHAIR: BOARD OF FLYING CHILDREN, AN NGO WORKING WITH ECD CENTRES IN DISADVANTAGED AREAS (CURRENT)  MEMBER: BOARD OF THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION INSTITUTE (2014 – 2019)  MEMBER: SA NATIONAL EDITORS’ FORUM (CURRENT) FELLOWSHIPS, CONSULTANCIES AND PROFESSIONAL ROLES 2022 COMMUNITY RADIO SUPPORT PROJECT IN ETHIOPIA CONSULTANT FOR FOJO MEDIA INSTITUTE (SWEDEN) ON SHORENSTEIN CENTER FELLOW, HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL.
2021 RESEARCH TOPIC: DISRUPTED MEDIA, DISRUPTED ACADEMY: RETHINKING AFRICAN J- SCHOOLS 7 2019 INTERFERENCE AT RADIO 702 ADVISER TO MOTAU INQUIRY INTO CLAIMS OF EDITORIAL 2019 - 2020 YEAR COMPETITION MEMBER OF JUDGING PANEL FOR VODACOM JOURNALIST OF THE 2017 ON WHATSAPP FROM RWANDA REPORT ON EXILED BURUNDIAN RADIO STATIONS BROADCASTING 2015 - 2018 MEDIA ACTION, ZAMBIA CONSULTANT ON COMMUNITY RADIO SUSTAINABILITY FOR BBC 2014 – 2019 AWARDS MEMBER OF JUDGING PANEL FOR SANLAM FINANCIAL JOURNALISM 2011 MEMBER OF THE REVIEW PANEL SET UP BY THE PRESS COUNCIL OF SA WHICH LED TO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE SYSTEM OF SELF-REGULATION IN SA 2010 MEMBER OF JUDGING PANEL FOR MTN RADIO AWARDS 2010 STIFTUNG REPORT ON UGANDAN MEDIA REGULATION FOR FRIEDRICH EBERT 2008 REVIEW EDITORIAL PROCESSES AFTER A SERIES OF HIGH-PROFILE RETRACTIONS MEMBER OF REVIEW PANEL SET UP BY EDITOR OF SUNDAY TIMES TO 2007 – 2017 COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE SA PRESS APPEALS PANEL OF THE SA PRESS 1995 VISITOR PROGRAMME VISITED US MEDIA ORGANISATIONS ON US INFORMATION SERVICE 1993 PARTICIPANT IN TWO-MONTH BROADCAST MANAGEMENT COURSE ARRANGED BY THE CAMPAIGN FOR OPEN MEDIA, INCLUDING ATTACHMENTS TO THE BBC IN LONDON AND BELFAST 1992 – 1993 INDEPENDENT MEDIA DEVELOPMENT TRUST MEMBER OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE TO ESTABLISH THE 8 1984 – 1986 (BORDER) REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT OF THE SA UNION OF JOURNALISTS 1980 TWO WEEKS FOR INVOLVEMENT IN ANTI-APARTHEID STUDENT POLITICS DETAINED WITHOUT TRIAL AND IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR Updated July 2022 9