Jude bridges theory and practice in the new media specialisation. He is also deputy new media editor of Grocott's Mail . His experience over the past decade includes media education and training, freedom of expression and media advocacy; stakeholder and project management for media assistance; and media production, editing and design for print and internet. He graduated with distinction from the Department of Journalism, Technikon Natal and later completed a Baccalaureus Technologiae summa cum laude. He tweets as at @newmediajude on Twitter

Harry Dugmore is the newly appointed MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communication at the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University in South Africa. Before joining Rhodes, Harry worked for the office of the President in South Africa creating long-term scenarios for the both the country and the African continent. The results of this two-year research project, “South Africa 2025: The future we choose”, outlining three scenarios for South Africa, was published in September 2008. Harry’s research interests include the use of mobile communications to encourage long-term behaviour change (especially in field of HIV and AIDS field), using cell phone technology to match producers to markets in developing countries, and the use of cell phones by government to provide better services and information to citizens. In his position at MTN Chair at Rhodes, Harry is running a major project funded by the USA-based Knight Foundation entitled “Iindaba Ziyafika - The news is coming”. This project aims, among other things, to better equip media producers in Africa with the skills and the software to use mobile phones to democratise both news production and news dissemination. Harry has PhD in history from the University of the Witwatersrand, and lives and works in Grahamstown.

Prof Guy Berger is head of the School of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. There he has overseen the development of the Africa Media Matrix building, as well as projects like the New Media Lab, Highway Africa conference and the Sol Plaatje Media Leadership Institute. He has a PhD from Rhodes, and is active in the South African National Editors Forum.