Enrolment of first year students in journalism leaps up by 30% in 1979. Why?
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"Possibly because the Information scandal has made journalism seem like a glamorous profession." At least this is the opinion of Journalism staff who compare the jump in numbers with a similar phenomenon at journalism schools in the United States after Watergate.
Of course, the increase may also be linked to the growing reputation of the Rhodes department, the only one of its kind at an English-language university in South Africa.
Bulletin, 1979 (2): 3
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Bulletin
At the time of its establishment in 1979, Bulletin represented the only English-language academic department of journalism in South Africa engaged in training journalists, the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rhodes. It sought to sustain debate on the quality of journalism and to be a watchdog on the watchdogs, commenting freely on the performance of the media and analyzing the values implicit in their news and views.
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Below are some snippets of its first edition:
The blueprint
Voice
