Dinesh Balliah is the Director of the Wits Centre for Journalism, a position she has held since 2021. The Wits Centre for Journalism is Africa's leading journalism training and teaching entity with a postgraduate academic programme, journalism projects including the Consortium for Human Rights and Media (CHARM) and the African Investigative Journalism Conference, the largest gathering of African journalists in the world. Dinesh is the former deputy public advocate of the Press Council of South Africa, and until very recently, chaired the board of the Health-e News Service in South Africa. She has served on a number of boards of media entities and has act as a judge for a number of journalism awards in South Africa. She is currently on the board of Report Local, home to Report for the World.