Television News. The South African post-apartheid
experience, offers new and original material in
exploring the role of broadcasting in transition. It
looks into the SABC and its news coverage in the ten
years from Nelson Mandelas inauguration in 1994. It
does so by means of qualitative and quantitative
analysis of TV news output, backed up by an extensive
programme of newsroom observation and interviewing of
key executives and professionals involved with the
SABC, speaking to debates about nationhood, media and
politics in South Africa. In countries in transition,
where processes of nation...