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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The Journalism Department at Rhodes University sits in the poorest province of South Africa, the Eastern Cape, guarding like a media watchdog atop a green hill just off of Prince Alfred street. Known to have been scattered across the campus since its establishment in 1970, the department now holds its journalism fort as the Africa Media Matrix. Its peculiarity in this context comes not only from it being the most technologically advanced journalism school on the African continent, but also because it's establishment in 2006 makes it a relatively new structure to be associated with the department in the history - revealing many other sites, spaces and stories of a journalism department needing to be recovered and remembered.
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Where was the department when you were in the department?
Where were your lectures?
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