After the submissions by Volksblad's acting night editor, Gert Coetzee, the council's chairman, Joe Thloloe, commented that this was the first publication that had responded to the council's request for dialogue and input at the hearings, adding: "Thank you". And, hearing that Coetzee was about to address the council, one media follower tweeted a comment expressing some relief that a practising journalist was eventually to speak. Previous submissions had been dominated by media academics.
...The other major input was from media academic JD Froneman of the North-West University, Potchefstroom [whose] remarks critical of the "juniorisation" of newsrooms around South Africa will be met with widespread agreement.
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