Adrian Hadland is professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Stirling, UK. Dr. Hadland has worked as a professional political journalist for more than 15 years covering events – including South Africa’s transition to democracy – in Africa as well as in Asia, the US and in Europe. He has published 25 books including biographies/memoirs and a number of scholarly texts on and about journalism and photojournalism including Media-State Relations in Emerging Democracies (2015) and Critical Issues in Photojournalism (2025).

• 1. Critical Perspectives.- 2. Craft Unionism and the South African Press: The South African Typographical Union and the “dead hand of trade Union conservativism”.- 3. ‘Peace at any price’: industrial conciliation and the South African Press 1920-40.- 4. Concentration and Monopoly in the South African Press.- 5. The World Paper Famine 1938-50.

Adrian Hadland is professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Stirling, UK. Dr. Hadland has worked as a professional political journalist for more than 15 years covering events – including South Africa’s transition to democracy – in Africa as well as in Asia, the US and in Europe. He has published 25 books including biographies/memoirs and a number of scholarly texts on and about journalism and photojournalism including Media-State Relations in Emerging Democracies (2015) and Critical Issues in Photojournalism (2025).

• 1. Critical Perspectives.- 2. Craft Unionism and the South African Press: The South African Typographical Union and the “dead hand of trade Union conservativism”.- 3. ‘Peace at any price’: industrial conciliation and the South African Press 1920-40.- 4. Concentration and Monopoly in the South African Press.- 5. The World Paper Famine 1938-50.

Adrian Hadland is professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Stirling, UK. Dr. Hadland has worked as a professional political journalist for more than 15 years covering events – including South Africa’s transition to democracy – in Africa as well as in Asia, the US and in Europe. He has published 25 books including biographies/memoirs and a number of scholarly texts on and about journalism and photojournalism including Media-State Relations in Emerging Democracies (2015) and Critical Issues in Photojournalism (2025).

• 1. Critical Perspectives.- 2. Craft Unionism and the South African Press: The South African Typographical Union and the “dead hand of trade Union conservativism”.- 3. ‘Peace at any price’: industrial conciliation and the South African Press 1920-40.- 4. Concentration and Monopoly in the South African Press.- 5. The World Paper Famine 1938-50.