Media Files: On the Serena Williams cartoon -- and how the UK phone hacking scandal led to a media crackdown in South Africa
- Written by Andrew Dodd, Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
Mark Knight’s cartoon in The Herald Sun has become a global topic of condemnation and debate because of its negative portrayal of American tennis player Serena Williams. It was widely described as racist.
The news of the cartoon broke last week while we were both at a conference in South Africa. We decided to show the cartoon to some local...