Marenet Jordaan, PhD

Marenet Jordaan graduated with a BA Publishing degree from the University of Pretoria (UP) in 2000 where she was awarded the vice-chancellor’s medal for the best student in the Faculty of Humanities. After completing her BPhil Journalism at Stellenbosch University (SU), she worked at Die Burger and Rapport in various roles, including as editor of an entertainment supplement. From 2009 she was a lecturer in the Journalism Programme at the UP. While working at UP, she completed her MPhil Journalism through SU – focusing on the role of the then still quite new phenomenon of social media use at newspapers. In 2015 she returned to her academic home at SU to teach in the honours and master’s programmes. She completed her doctoral dissertation about the Afrikaans online news publication Netwerk2, in 2018. In 2020 she received an institutional Teaching Excellence award from SU.

She is currently the South African investigator on the comparative Worlds of Journalism Study.