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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