About Elvira
Elvira van Noort
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Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details
Full name: Elvira E. van Noort
Date of birth: 02 August 1984
Nationality: Dutch
Education
January 2006 – February 2008
Master in Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Course work: Media & Society, Media & Texts, Media Policies & Institutions and Media Research. Thesis title: Newsroom convergence at the Mail & Guardian: a qualitative case study
2001-2005
Bachelor and Honours in Journalism at the Hogeschool Utrecht, The Netherlands. Specialised in Print & Internet journalism. Research topic: Newsroom Reporters Attitudes towards Online Journalism
June – December 2003
Exchange programme with Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Courses: Journalism 3, History 3, Politics 3
1996-2001
High school at RSG Broklede in Breukelen, The Netherlands, Diploma 2001
Profile: Economy & Society + Computer Science
Employment History
– Current –
February 2010 – present
EvN facilitates 6 week training courses in citizen journalism at local newspaper Grocott’s Mail. Everyone within the Grahamstown community can join – the course is supported by the Knight grant and will run 3 times in 2010
December 2007 – present
Freelance lecturer at School of Journalism, Hogeschool Utrecht, The Netherlands
July 2007 – present
Digital Citizen Indaba coordinator, Highway Africa, South Africa
12 September 2008 – present
Freelance research associate at the Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Management and Leadership in Grahamstown, South Africa. Research fields: ICTs, newsroom convergence, new media management and the use of mobile technologies in Southern Africa
– Journalist –
29 December 2008
Elvira’s article about the African Blogosphere ends up in the top ten of most read stories on journalism blog De Nieuwe Reporter. Read the story here
27 October – 30 October 2008
Editor at the IFRA Expo multiblog in RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003 – December 2007
Freelance reporter and South Africa correspondent with articles published in: MediaNews, denieuwereporter.nl, Xs4all.nl, AfrikaNieuws/ AfricaNews, AfricaServer Magazine, De Journalist, Internationale Samenwerking, Top-X.nl, Viva, Highway Africa News Agency
28 June – 7 July 2007
Editor of the Highway Africa News Agency newsroom convergence project during the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa
3 – 6 June 2007
Highway Africa News Agency reporter during the 60th World Newspaper Congress and 14th World Editors Forum in Cape Town
August 2005 – January 2006
Professional placement as an online reporter at the Mail & Guardian Online, Johannesburg. Organised by the Dutch Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA). Two articles end up in the Top 20 Most Read Stories of 2005
11 – 14 October 2004
Cell phone blogger at the IFRA Expo in Amsterdam with the Californian multimedia newsroom of the future: Newsplex.
September 2003 – June 2004
Production Assistant at Nieuwslicht; a weekly scientific TV-programme from the Dutch public broadcaster VARA
– Media Training & Lecturing–
14 September – 08 November 2009
Guest lecturer at the School for Journalism at Hogeschool Utrecht in The Netherlands. Courses: Freelance Journalism, South African Media Landscape and Multimedia Orientation
02 – 11 June 2009
Editor of CueBlog, part of Cue Festival media run by the Journalism department at Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa) and the Dutch School of Journalism (Utrecht, The Netherlands) during the Grahamstown National Arts Festival.
16 March 2009
Media training in basic journalism skills and radio production at radio station Mai-Fe in Asindo-opo in the Surinamese interior (South America)
October 2008 – 23 January 2009
Lecturer at the School of Journalism in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Courses: New Media Orientation, Campusblog.nl, English, Freelance Theory and South Africa Media Landscape.
02 September 2008
Facilitator of a one-day master class in Online Journalism for Ghetto Radio and Music Mayday in Johannesburg, South Africa. The master class is part of a week long training, organised by Elvira.
26 June – 05 July 2008
Editor of CueBlog, part of Cue Festival media run by the Journalism department at Rhodes University and the Highway Africa News Agency, during the Grahamstown National Arts Festival.
March – September 2008
Guest lecturer at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Courses: Online journalism; TV journalism
December 2007 – January 2008
Guest lecturer at the Journalism and Communications faculty, Hogeschool Utrecht, The Netherlands
Courses: News & Ethics; CampusBlog; Journalism in Southern Africa and a New Media Orientation week
February – November 2007
Teaching Assistant of the second year course Introduction to Print at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
– Solutions –
01 July – 07 September 2009
Coordinator of the annual Digital Citizen Indaba 4.0 , a two-day conference about digital media and social justice in Africa at Rhodes University, Grahamstown. The 2009 theme: “Digital Civil Society and Journalism in Africa”
10 June 2009
Consultancy for LINDA magazine in The Netherlands about the magazine industry in South Africa
May – September 2008
Convergence consultant for the Highway Africa and Southern Media Development Fund (Samdef) on the project: “Convergence as a strategic publishing plan: Assistance of media companies in Southern Africa, their understanding, appreciation and application of digital media and the convergence process”. Research done in five newsrooms in Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique
May – September 2008
Coordinator of the annual Digital Citizen Indaba (a one-day conference about the African blogosphere with a sponsored budget from NiZA, the Dutch Southern Africa Institute) at Rhodes University, Grahamstown. The 2008 theme: Technology for the Digital Citizen. Watch the videos here.
November 2007
Africa Expert and Consultant for Ergo Advisors New York, USA
25 July – 20 September 2007
New Media Lab Assistant at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Co-coordinator of the 2nd Digital Citizen Indaba.
December 2004 – February 2005
Internship at the Online section of de Volkskrant; writing stories, updating the news website, produce photo specials and newsletters, work within a Content Management System
March – May 2004
Internship at Utrechts Nieuwsblad; features and hard news reporter for daily provincial newspaper
Conferences
- Backpacking South Africa’s Conference on Tourism, Nieu Bethesda, South Africa (2008)
- Afrika Congres, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2008)
- Fill the Gap – the mobile revolution in Africa, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2008)
- PodCamp, South Africa (2007, 2008)
- Highway Africa Conference, Grahamstown, South Africa (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
- Digital Citizen Indaba, Grahamstown, South Africa (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
- World Newspaper Congress, Cape Town, South Africa (2007)
- World Editors Forum, Cape Town, South Africa (2007)
- World Press Freedom 2.0, The Hague, The Netherlands (2009)
Presentations
- Blogging, Twitter and Facebook: what is next? – Rhodes University, Grahamstown (21 July 2008)
- Newsroom Convergence, what’s the big deal? – PodCamp, Bloemfontein (29 April 2008)
- Convergence at South African media – KennisKring Journalistiek, Utrecht (1 February 2008)
- South Africa’s media landscape – Dutch Institute Southern Africa (NiZA), young professional journalists, Utrecht (8 January 2008)
- How to work with online video? – SABC, Johannesburg (26 October 2007)
- Convergence projects and mobile reporting – PodCamp, Cape Town (20 October 2007)
- Convergence and print media case studies – Highway Africa Conference, Grahamstown (11 September 2007) Broadcasted live on SAfm and SABC Africa
Publications & Media
- Live interview about the Digital Citizen Indaba with South Africa’s public broadcaster SABC International in Point Blanc – Grahamstown, 8 September 2008
- Interview about the Digital Citizen Indaba with South Africa’s public radio station SAfm – Grahamstown, 7 September 2008
- Academic article ‘Lessons from a converging newsroom – Southern African experiments’ published in Rhodes Journalism Review 28 – September 2008
- Podcast interview about MA thesis with MyBroadband.co.za – Grahamstown, 5 May 2008
- Panel presentation about newsroom convergence and print media case studies, broadcasted live on SAfm and SABC Africa – Highway Africa conference, Grahamstown, September 2007
Relevant skills, qualifications and other
- Computing: Microsoft Office, HTML, Photoshop, (mob-) blogging, Podcasting, open source, new media technologies
- Languages: Dutch: Mother English: Excellent German and French: Moderate
- Current driving license
- Member of the Dutch Association for Journalists (NvJ)