“I realise that when reporting, I walk with a stoop now, bent from the world as if to protect myself. It’s not like me. At news events, like EFF media conferences, I make myself small and will ask questions in a way that sound to me as I reflect, almost obsequious. It’s definitely not like…
Tag: Journalism
ON THE CLOCK: THE FUTURE OF (SELFIE) JOURNALISM
I have been thinking about my chosen profession recently. In fact for the past 14 years. Each day I have asked myself if this is something I want or wish to do for the rest of my life. I have asked myself this question on every occasion I have returned from the heat of the…
HEALTHY SUCCESS: WHEN LOOSING MAKES US ALL WINNERS
‘The art of living is neither careless drifting nor fearful clinging. It consists in being open and wholly receptive to each moment’ Alan Watts
WHAT’S NEWS TO YOU? LESSONS FROM A 13 YEAR OLD JOURNALIST
This month on September 11 I marked 13 years as a journalist. So I thought I should dedicate this week’s blog post to an activity that has dominated my life for the past 13 years. Of course, it’s a long story. IN THE BEGINNING: WHAT AM I? I had many dreams and aspirations before…
QUIET DIPLOMACY : MY SECRET LOVE AFFAIR WITH WEST AFRICA
30-LOVE ” You will look back at this and be proud of yourself, you will come out of this stronger and wiser” said my older sister – looking lovingly at me in the plane. We were on an early morning South African Airways (SAA) flight to South Africa from Senegal in what is arguably the most…
JOURNALISM: MA RAISON D’ETRE
Any journalist would know the basic core questions which must be answered in any news story: Who said (did) What, When, Where, How and Why, the Five Ws and an H. The Why question is what has been my main preoccupation throughout my life (even before I studied and became a journalist). My mother…
The Second Sex: “Editor calls for A Skills Audit for SA’s Journalists”
03 October 2013. After reading Simone de Beauvoir’s seminal feminist book, The Second Sex, I was quite dumbfounded; unable to find a way of condensing the book into a summarized book review. The book brought up so many issues for me – in-fact all of the issues that I have been grappling with as a…
More ZEN less PH0BIA
11. May. That date brings so many memories. I recall them today because it was a day of paradoxes which I am now only aware of ironically in hindsight. The 11th of May 2008 was a day of new beginnings, a day of some kind of a fresh start. I walked into the walls…
