earned a Ph.D. In Journalism (University of Queensland), a Master of Science in Media Management (University of Scotland Stirling), and an M.A. in Mass Communication (University of Karachi).
a journalism practitioner and academician, started out as a full-time journalist with the Agence France-Presse before he went to the University of Minnesota on a Fulbright-Smith Mundt scholarship.
is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia; Editor-in-Chief of Communication for Development and Social Change: A Global Journal (Hampton Press),