Today sees the Africa launch of branded YouTube channels, among those featured would be RhodesTV. The Rhodes School of Journalism and Media studies now has its own Youtube channel where all the top video/audio and slideshow content of our students will be showcased on the channel. Alette Schoon and Paddy Donnelly will be attending the launch today, representing the school, students and graduates. You can view the site at www.youtube.com/rhodestv.
Read below the Bio that Alette supplied for the launch, it reflects the vision, aims and focus of our new Youtube Channel.
"This is not mainstream TV. It's different. It is TV that unashamedly champions stories about Africa. Here you will find compelling untold content including stories about the voiceless and the marginal. It's also a university channel, coming from the oldest journalism school in South Africa. So it's TV that's content dense, that's more than bubblegum and deals in the currency of ideas. We combine issues in a single video that’s outside the genre box - arts through a human rights lens, science in service of democracy.
The channel presents stories about Africans for Africans, coming out of a small rural town in South Africa's poorest province, the Eastern Cape. The Rhodes motto says that this is the place where leaders learn. Through our students' work you can see on this channel, we provide leadership that will help people imagine what TV could be without the pressures of commercial and
political bullying.
It's the kind of TV some people don't want you to watch but now you can on Youtube."