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Jude Mathurine is lecturer and coordinator of Rhodes University's New Media Lab. He is also consulting digital editor of Grocott's Mail in Grahamstown, South Africa. Over the past 14 years, Jude has occupied roles in journalism education and training, media advocacy and media development in South Africa and sub-Sahara Africa. His other interests include curriculum reform for mainstreaming convergence in African JMC-Schools and transformation of the new media space.
 
The New Media Lab has educated a generation of learners with the intellectual and critical competence for the digital transformation of local media environments since 1996. Grocott's Mail, South Africa's oldest independent newspaper is an incubator for a Knight funded projects involving citizen journalism, mobile phones and other digital platforms.
Jude tweets as @newmediajude, blogs at http://nml.ru.ac.zaand offers strategic direction to http://www.grocotts.co.za