Stanley Karombo, an award-winning journalist, worked for several international news organizations, including the Voice of America and SWRadio Africa, and has contributed to the New Internationalist and Inter-Press Services News Agency (IPS) and Xinhua News Agency. As a writer of market equities with the Xinhua News Agency, he filed business, financial, JSE stocks, bonds, and currencies. He also worked for South Africa鈥檚 Famer鈥檚 Weekly as a senior feature writer, where he wrote news and enterprise stories for one of the world鈥檚 most important commodity consumers.
Stanley cut his teeth in teaching in Zimbabwe, where he instructed journalism students at the Christian College of Southern Africa (CCOSA), University of Witwatersrand, and University of Johannesburg. He is now pursuing a PhD to teach and research in the field of AI in local news. He has both BA hons and MA in Journalism 鈥� specializing in financial journalism 鈥� from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Stanley has been active in media research, including presenting a paper on participatory cultures and new ethical paradigms in the Global South at the University of Tubingen, Germany in 2017. Stanley also has co-authored two book chapters 鈥� one in Hate language on digital television: The case of ZBC Television online news and the other in Radio, Public Life and citizen Deliberation in South Africa. His research interests include the viability of AI in news, innovation in journalism, alternative media, algorithmic journalism, and participatory democracies.