• The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for funding the project.

• Anthea Simões for her continuous discussions, immense support and hard work, especially for the layout and her assistance in editing.

• Soraya Goga for her assistance in editing and enormous encouragement.

• All the Human Resource Managers and interviewees from the companies, without whom this document would not have been possible.

• The following companies for their co-operation:

Associated Magazines
e-TV
Independent Newspapers
Mail and Guardian
Naspers
Natal Witness
New Africa
New African Investment Limited
Penta Publishing
Ramsy, Son and Parker
Reuters
South African Broadcasting Corporation
South African Press Association
Times Media Ltd
Touchline Media
UmAfrika

• The advisory committee: Di McCann, Prof. Keyan Tomaselli, Dr. Ruth Teer-Tomaselli and Dr. Dearbhal Ni Chartheigh at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, for their encouragement, support and assistance.

• The South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) for their endorsement and support, particularly Latiefa Mobara, Judy Sandison and Anthea Garman.

• Henre Benson for help in the design of the cover.

• Susan Govender, Thato Foko, Tasneem Seedat, René Smith, Geraldine David and Miranda Young at the University of KwaZulu-Natal for their support encouragement, and help.

• Dr Darren Larton from Natal Technikon and University of KwaZulu-Natal for his help in the statistical analysis.

• Dorothy and John Roome for their work in the initial organisation of the project.