Journalists like to see journalists as heroes. That’s excluding their peers in state-owned media in Africa who are more usually propagandists rather than journalists.
On the other side of the fence, governments typically like to see journalists as villains, while civil society – sitting on the fence – sees them as flawed heroes, tainted by commercial considerations.
Audiences are more sanguine. They see some journalists as angels, some as devils.

Misa activist (and Rhodes MA candidate) Rushweat Mukundu was one of those debating broadcast reform in Cape Town.

Is reform of state-owned broadcasters in Africa a write-off? Or are there elements to work on?

This was a debate represented by a paper written by Libby Lloyd, and a response by me, (as well as several other people!), in Cape Town this week. The discussion was hosted by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.