Bio

Currently head of the department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is very active in media training networks in southern Africa. His research has covered impact assessment for media training activities as well as the Alternative Press, Journalism Education, Community Media, Freedom of Information legislation, Broadcast and Internet, and Race and the Media. Berger's media experience includes editorship of New Era magazine and South weekly newspaper in Cape Town. He also set up Afravision -a television production/distribution company based in London. As a result of democratic media activities, he was jailed as a political prisoner (1985-1990), and later forced into exile (1985-1990).