CEJA staff

Director
Reg Rumney (r.rumney@ru.ac.za)

Reg Rumney is a journalist with extensive experience in business reporting,
with a career that has spanned both the Print and broadcast media.

From January 1996 until the end of 2000 he was the economics editor of SABC
News, and before that he was Business Editor of the Mail & Guardian
newspaper, where he was also Managing Editor and a director.

Most recently, as executive director of BusinessMap, he was responsible for
producing reports on foreign investment, black economic empowerment and
privatisation, and carried out research work in Africa on issues related to
the investment climate.

He is keenly interested in the role of business in society, having founded
the Mail & Guardian Investing in the Future Awards in 1990 to celebrate
excellence in South African corporate social responsibility.

He has served as an adjudicator on the Sanlam Financial Journalist of the
Year Awards and on the Appeal Panel of the Press Ombudsman.

He writes an occasional in-depth column called The Big Deal for the M&G on
BEE, focusing on equity transactions.

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Research Assistant
Michelle Solomon (m.solomon@ru.ac.za)

Michelle received her Bachelor of Journalism at the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies in 2009, having specialised in television journalism. She then worked for a year at the Daily Dispatch newspaper in East London as a consumer journalist, and was awarded a full scholarship by the Reserve Bank in November 2010.

She is currently studying her Masters in Economics Journalism through Ceja and Rhodes University, with an interest in media regulation and management.