About / À propos

Herman Wasserman is a Professor of Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

He is the author of several books, has published widely on media, ethics and democracy in Africa and has consulted for organisations such as the United Nations and the Centre for International Media Assistance and given keynote addresses and invited lectures at universities worldwide, including Stanford, Yale and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been a visiting scholar at Indiana University, Tsinghua University and the Ludwig-Maximilian University.

His awards include the Georg Foster Prize from the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Fulbright Fellowship and the Neva Prize for Journalism Theory from the University of St Petersburg, amongst others.

He is often quoted in international media and serves on the editorial boards of more than fifteen international scholarly journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal African Journalism Studies and Editor of the Annals of the International Communication Association (from August 2020). He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.

Visit Prof. Wasserman’s website for CV: Herman Wasserman CV

(Ver. PBe 09-2022)