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Giffard, Anthony

Ph.D, English, University of Washington, 1968

Office: CMU 340E
Phone: 616-8666
E-Mail: giffard@uw.edu

C. Anthony Giffard, professor, studies international media policy and systems, with a particular interest in media in Europe and developing countries.

After a career in journalism in South Africa and London, Giffard received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1968. He then founded and directed the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Rhodes University in South Africa, before joining the faculty of the School of Communications at the UW in 1978. Giffard also has been a visiting professor or scholar at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, and the University of Rome (La Sapienza).

Giffard has been a consultant for several UN agencies and international non-government organizations. He has served on the editorial boards of Telematics and Informatics and the South African journal for journalism research, Ecquid Novi, and on the board of directors of the international news agency, Inter Press Service. He is director of the UW Communication Department's study-abroad program in Rome.

Giffard's teaching interests include courses in global communications, European media systems, content analysis, and a graduate seminar in European Union information society and audio-visual policy.

Selected Publications

UNESCO and the Media (New York and London: Longman, 1988), 230 pp.

The Press And Apartheid: Censorship and Repression in South Africa (with W. A. Hachten). (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984). 336 pp.

The Reminiscences of John Montgomery, (Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1981), 202 pp. Annotated biography of a pioneer South African journalist.

Las Agencias de Prensa en la Comunicacion Global (Madrid, Editorial Comunica, 1995), 122 pp.

News from the Third World (Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1984), 46 pp.

Inter Press Service: Reporting on the Third World, International Association for Mass Communication Research, April 1983, 190 pp.

"Culture vs. Commerce: Europe Strives to Keep Hollywood at Bay," in Sabrina Ramet and Gordana Crnkovic, eds. The American Impact on European Popular Culture (Oxford, Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), pp. 37-55.

"International Agencies and Global Issues," in Abbas Malek and Anandam Kavoori, The Global Dynamics of News (Stamford, Conn.: Ablex, 1999) pp. 389-408.

"Alternative News Agencies," in Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen, eds. The Globalization of News (London: Sage, 1998) pp. 191-202.

"New Media for the New South Africa," (with A.S. de Beer), in Festus Eribo, ed., Press Freedom and Communication in Africa (Lawrenceville, N.J.: Africa WorldPress: 1997), pp. 75-100.

"International News Agency Coverage of the Rio Earth Summit," in Sandra Braman and Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, Globalization, Communication and Transnational Civil Society (Creskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 1996) pp. 197-219.