Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town
Herman Wasserman is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a doctorate from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and worked as a journalist before starting an academic career. He has published widely on media in post-apartheid South Africa. His books include the monographs Media, Geopolitics, and Power (University of Illinois Press, 2018), Tabloid Journalism in South Africa (Indiana University Press, 2010) and several edited collections . He is editor-in-chief of the journal African Journalism Studies and sits on the editorial board of ten other scholarly journals. Wasserman holds a B1 rating from the South African National Research Foundation.
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