Sean Jacobs
Sean Jacobs, founder and editor of Africa is a Country, is on the faculty of The New School and a Shuttleworth Fellow
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/ 3 October 2005

Get an Opinion

South Africa is sorely missing a real journal of opinion, of the ilk of the US’s <i>The Nation</i>. Sean Jacobs looks at the lessons held in the memoirs of <i>The Nation</i>’s publisher, Victor Navasky.

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/ 3 August 2005

The People’s CNN

A Latin American regional television news network is due to be launched in Venezuela this month. Sean Jacobs says SABC Africa could learn from the station’s strategy for challenging Western media’s hegemony.

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/ 23 May 2005

Revolving Door

The tightly sealed door between journalism and politics is breaking down in the US, causing discomfort amongst media commentators. Sean Jacobs wonders whether South Africa needs to look at its own revolving door policy.

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/ 4 May 2005

Labour Intensive

Local labour voices have moved up from community initiatives to a slot on national SABC station SAfm. Sean Jacobs analyses this development in the context of the relationship between labour unions and media in the US.

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/ 1 March 2005

Subverting the Format

"Usually I am consumed by what is wrong with US media, but this time around, I thought it might be appropriate to celebrate what is occasionally right with the media here, especially television," writes <i>The Media</i> columnist Sean Jacobs. An HBO show called <i>The Wire</i> is breaking all the rules of TV police drama.

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/ 26 January 2005

Gagging Private Ryan

The cultural conservatives seem to be winning US media’s "moral wars". They have perfected the art of expressing their displeasure about programming through blast emails and weblogs. Sean Jacobs looks at how the dirty-word police keep films like <i>Saving Private Ryan</i> off the air.