Nixon Kariithi (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

Submitted: Tues, 8 June 2004


Professor Nixon Kariithi
Head, Media Studies Programme
School of Literature and Language Studies
University of the Witwatersrand
Private Bag 3
Wits 2050
Johannesburg
South Africa

phone:   +27 11 717-4112
fax:     +27 11 717-4149
e-mail:  nkariithi@languages.wits.ac.za -or-
 nixonkk@yahoo.com


Research areas:
African media studies ; ownership issues in South African broadcasting ; 
leadership in African political history ; economic and business reporting 
in Africa ; Kenya.

Teaching areas: Media economics ; Sociology of news.


Publications:

"The Rand Crisis: When a policy crisis becomes a media crisis." 
Intermedia, Volume 30, No. 3, 2002. London: International Institute of 
Communication.

"Economics journalism in Africa" in Nieman Reports. Nieman Foundation, 
Harvard University, Cambridge. Volume 56, No. 2, 2002.

"New Institutionalism." In Michie, Jonathan (ed) Readers Guide to the 
Social Sciences, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, March 2001. 

"Reporting for the West: How coverage of the Zairian civil war toed the 
policy lines of Western governments." Rhodes Journalism Review, 
Grahamstown. Vol. 18, December 1999.

"Television in South Africa." (in) Newcomb, Horace (ed.) The Encyclopedia 
of Television. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

"Television in Kenya."  (in) Newcomb, Horace (ed.) The Encyclopedia of 
Television. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

"Reporting African Economies." in Mallette, Malcolm (ed.) Handbook for 
African Journalists. Washington, DC: World Press Freedom Committee, 1996.

"Questioning the policy maker: The role of the mass media in shaping 
Africa's economic future," in Okigbo, Charles (ed.) Media and Sustainable 
Development in Africa . Nairobi: Africa Council for Communication 
Education, 1995.

"Misreading culture and tradition: Western critical appreciation of 
African films," in Kabore, Gaston (ed.), Africa and the Centenary of 
Cinema. Paris: Presence Africaine, 1995.

"Who is Afraid of Cuts in US Aid?" op-ed article, The Journal of Commerce, 
Washington, Jan. 31, 1995.

"The role of technology in breaking international communication barriers: 
An African perspective," COMBROAD, February 1995. London: Commonwealth 
Broadcasting Association.  

"The crisis facing development journalism in Africa,Ó Media Development 
Journal, London, 4/1994.