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Anton Harber
Visiting Fellow in 2012-2010. Information correct as of their fellowship year. Updates may have been made since but information could be outdated.

Anton Harber is the Caxton Professor of Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was the co-founder and co-editor of the Weekly Mail (now the Mail & Guardian), CEO of Kagiso Broadcasting (Pty) Ltd and an executive director of Kagiso Media Ltd. He was in 2009/10 chair of the Freedom of Expression Institute and a director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, the Anthony Sampson Foundation and the Phil Harber Jazz Education Trust. He was co-editor of the first and second editions of The A–Z of South African Politics (Penguin), What is Left Unsaid: Reporting the South African HIV Epidemic (Jacana) and Troublemakers: The best of SA’s investigative journalism (Jacana). He was an executive producer of the television series Ordinary People and Hard Copy. Harber writes a column in Business Day and a blog at www.theharbinger.co.za.While at the RISJ, he is researching the relationship between the government and the media in South Africa, and a book about Diepsloot, a volatile informal settlement on the edge of Johannesburg.