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Jude Mathurine is a lecturer in new media and digital journalism at Rhodes University's School of Journalism and Media Studies. He heads up the New Media Lab and is editor for the ad hoc arts website CueOnline. He was formerly online editor and consulting digital editor for Grocott's Mail.

Jude has spent time as a freelance writer, researcher, project manager, media liaison, magazine and book editor, journalism educator and media development officer, among others.

Starting his academic career as a technical assistant and magazine editor, he rose to become the first full-time black lecturer of the erstwhile Technikon Natal Department of Journalism and Public Relations in 1999. After working for the Media Institute of Southern Africa's SA chapter and the sub-Sahara media programme of the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation, he joined Rhodes University's School of Journalism and Media Studies in 2007.

Jude has run workshops and presented at seminars and conferences for a variety of national and international organisations including Unesco, the Goethe Institute, Caxton Publishers, the Sol Plaatje Media Leadership Institute and Highway Africa among others. In 2005, he was editor and assistant researcher for A Watchdog's Guide to Investigative Reporting . Between 2005 and 2006, he edited Konrad Adenauer Foundation's SADC Media Law series which was published in English, Portuguese and French.

He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Journalism from Technikon Natal and an MA in Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University. His research has focused on convergence, new media for development and democratisation and emergent journalism practices.

He tweets at @newmediajude on Twitter