Marjan de Bruin is the new Director of CARIMAC
(Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication) and the first
woman to be appointed to that position. She has been with CARIMAC
for 16 years, most of them as Head of the Print Journalism Department.
Before coming to Jamaica she was editor of a Dutch weekly. She
completed her doctoral degree in social psychology at the University
of Amsterdam, after receiving a degree at the School of Social
Work.
At CARIMAC she has been an important actor in the Institute’s
outreach programmes and has attracted more than one million US
in funds for these activities and research. She has been responsible
for several projects to improve reporting, especially in the area
of environmental reporting and coverage of HIV/AIDS.
Among the most significant projects for which she has been responsible
are studies on health journalism, combined with workshops and
seminars designed to improve the quality of media coverage.
Marjan de Bruin is an active member of the International Association
of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). She is currently
Vice president of the organisation and editor of its journal.
Before that, she was for five years Head of the IAMCR’s
Gender and Media Studies section. Her publications on this
topic include articles in refereed journals, monographs
and a book now in press (Identities at Work, co-edited with
Professor Karen Ross, Hampton Press, USA). She is on the
Editorial Board of Feminist Media Studies.