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Elvira van Noort

Elvira van Noort runs her own media company called EvN Media Solutions. She coordinates the annual Digital Citizen Indaba on Blogging, is the Citizen Journalism Course Trainer at Grocott’s Mail, lectures at the School of Journalism in Utrecht (the Netherlands) and is a research associate at the Sol Plaatje Media Institute. Elvira is Dutch, married to a South African, has family in Suriname, loves polka dots, and listens to heavy metal.

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• Citizen journalism to shake up SA?

  After landing a job as the Citizen Journalism Trainer at Grocott’s Mail, I sat down to do some research on the subject. So I Googled “citizen journalism” and “citizen journalism training”, and eventually “citizen journalism south africa” – the fifth entry looked interesting: "Will citizen journalism shake up SA media?", an article from the Mail & Guardian. Click. Scroll.WHAT?! Under the headline it reads: “ELVIRA VAN NOORT | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Jan 06 2006 17:25”… Whoa! I forgot I ...