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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Light tables/ laptops?
Tech Uncut
Simon Pamphilon, journalism student in the 1980s and currently writing, editing and design lecturer in the department, retraces tales of working late Rhodeo nights on equipment like this light table - very different to the digital printing, scanning, formatting and designing journalism students are using today. It was used at the risk of getting your thumb sliced!