Newsmaking Cultures in Africa Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political & Economic Struggles

This book explores the intricacies of newsmaking cultures in Africa. It pulls together theoretically driven studies that dig beneath the standardised and universalised veneer of professionalism to unpack routine practices as well as normative trends shaped by local factors, including the structural...

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Mabweazara, Hayes Mawindi, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2018.
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Reinvigorating ‘Age-Old Questions': African Journalism Cultures and the Fallacy of Global Normative Homogeneity, Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
  • Part I: Issues and Conceptual Debates
  • 2. Towards a Journalism Education Model Curricula in Africa: A Call for a Glocal Rather than Global (Universal) Journalism Model, Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
  • 3. African Journalism Cultures: The Struggle of Free Expression Against Neo-Patrimonial Governance, Robert A. White and Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
  • Part II: Professional Practices, Cultures and Identity
  • 4. The Nairobian and the ‘Politics' of Tabloidization in Kenya's Print Media, George Ogola
  • 5. When Your 'Take-Home' Can Hardly Take You Home: Moonlighting and the Quest for Economic Survival in the Zimbabwean Press, Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
  • 6. Press Freedom in the African Great Lakes Region: A Comparative Study of Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Anke Fiedler and Marie-Soleil Frère
  • 7. Newsmaking Practices in Uganda: A Comparative Framing Analysis of two Leading Newspapers, Brian Semujju
  • Part III: Ethical and Professional Dilemmas
  • 8. Brown envelope journalism: The Contradiction Between Ethical Mindset and Unethical Practice, Terje Skjerdal
  • 9. Poor Capitalization and Corruption within the Nigerian Press, Muhammed Jameel Yusha'u
  • 10. 'Caught up in between a rock and a hard place'? A Comparative Study of how Business Journalists Negotiate Ethical Policies in Kenya and South Africa, Admire Mare
  • 11. Media Ethics and Journalism in Tanzania, Ammina Kothari
  • Part IV: Politics, Political Parallelism and Partisanship
  • 12. Journalism, Politics and Professionalism in Zimbabwe, Wallace Chuma
  • 13. Ideology as News: Political Parallelism in Botswana's Public Media, Letshwiti Batlhalefi Tutwane
  • 14. The Journalistic Field in Ethiopia: Where Partisanship and Credibility Cohabit, Abdissa Zerai and Fitih Alemu
  • 15. From Watchdogs to Hostages of Peace: The Kenyan Press and the 2013 General Election, Denis Galava
  • Part V: New Media and Emerging Professional Cultures
  • 16. 'We Cannot Bite the Finger that Feeds Us': Journalists' Dilemmas and the Appropriation of ‘Alternative' Media in Nigerian Print Newsrooms, Motilola Olufenwa Akinfemisoye
  • 17. Reality check: The Nigerian Press and the Potentials of the Internet in the Domestication of International News, Mercy Ette.