Govin Reddy is professor and director of the Sol Plaatje Media Leadership Institute at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. In the 1980s, Professor Reddy was deputy editor-in-chief of Inter Press Service in Rome, Italy, and editor of Africa South magazine in Harare, Zimbabwe. He returned to South Africa from exile in 1991, and became deputy director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism at the University of Witwatersrand. In 1994, Professor Reddy joined the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) as chief executive of SABC Radio and deputy group chief executive of the SABC where he was one of the key figures in transforming the state broadcasting agency into an independent public broadcasting agency. Prior to joining Rhodes University, he was chief executive of the Mail & Guardian. He was a founding member and first vice chairman of the Media Institute of Southern Africa and, in 1998, was elected president of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. He is vice president of the Newspaper Publishers Association of South Africa, chairman of the Media Freedom Committee, and serves on the board of the South African Childrens Media Foundation. He received a masters degree in African studies from Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. Mr. Reddy is an alumnus of a number of Salzburg Seminar Sessions, and most recently served as the Chair of Session 416, Ethics in News Reporting and Editing, 2004.