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AI Ethics, Bias & Governance in Media
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 22 pp.
"This paper sets out how newsrooms and journalism schools can use artificial intelligence ethically: how bias enters AI systems and compounds through the news pipeline, why the dominant ethics frameworks are largely Western and what an African, Ubuntu-grounded alternative offers, and how a newsroom
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Disinformation in Migration Reporting
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines disinformation in migration reporting: how false and misleading narratives about migrants and refugees are constructed, spread and weaponised, and how journalists can report migration truthfully. It sets out the three master narratives, health, economic and security threat, on w
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Election Disinformation and Political Communication
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 29 pp.
"This paper examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping election disinformation and political communication, and how democracies, especially in East Africa, can respond. It sets out the five harms AI disinformation inflicts on an election; it delivers an honest reality check on the 2024 “fir
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Hate Speech, Extremism and Propaganda
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 29 pp.
"This paper examines hate speech, extremism and propaganda in the age of AI, and what journalism owes a society they endanger. It traces the escalation from stereotyping through dehumanisation to incitement and atrocity; it confronts the gravest African precedents, Rwanda’s “Radio Machete” and
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Safety, Surveillance and the Protection of Journalists
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines the safety of journalists in the age of artificial intelligence, and how they can be protected. It surveys the surveillance industry, from Pegasus to Predator to Graphite, and how AI has made targeting cheaper and broader; it documents the epidemic of AI-facilitated gender-based
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Curricula and Curriculum Development for AI Journalism
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper is a practical manual for building AI journalism curricula. It sets out the competency frameworks, from UNESCO to the African Criteria, that define what a curriculum must achieve; it presents the design methods of backward design and constructive alignment; it shows how to write measurab
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Journalism Education in Africa and the Global South
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines journalism education across Africa and the Global South: where it stands, what constrains it, and how it can flourish. It traces the colonial inheritance and the debate over decolonising and Africanising the curriculum; it confronts the theory-practice gap, the resource scarcity
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Training the Trainers: Educator Capacity Building for the AI Era
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 16 pp.
"This paper makes the case that building educator capacity is the highest-return investment a media system can make in the AI era, and shows how to do it. It sets out the multiplier logic of the training of trainers, the participatory and constructivist pedagogy that makes such training stick, the H
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Information Literacy: Countering Disinformation
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines information literacy as the public-facing defence against disinformation. Itbsets out media and information literacy (MIL) as the recognised first line of defence; it documents the severe African MIL gap and the emerging Africa MIL Policy Framework; it presents the science of pr
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A Taxonomy of LLM-Supported Tasks for Critical AI Literacy in Journalism
Postdigital Science and Education (2026), 23 pp.
"This paper develops a task-based taxonomy for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into journalism education, drawing on task definitions from machine learning and natural language processing alongside journalism studies. Organised around four stages of the news workflow, newsgathering, sensema
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Disinformation Campaigns in Africa: Actors, Consequences, and Responses
New York: Bloomsbury Publishing (2026), 262 pp.
"Centering disinformation campaigns in Africa, this book examines typologies of false and misleading information and assesses the devastating consequences of disinformation. Admire Mare and Allen Munoriyarwa cover the key actors, consequences of, and responses to combat disinformation campaigns th
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Political economy of disinformation and misinformation electioneering uptake in Ghana’s 2024 general election
African Journal of Social Issues, volume 9, issue 1 (2026), 361–381 pp.
"Disinformation and misinformation have become pervasive in electoral processes, influencing voter behaviour, party strategies, and democratic governance. This paper examines the socio-political dynamics that influence the uptake of disinformation and misinformation during the 2024 election period i
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Conversational AI agent for teacher education in Ghana
Discover Education, volume 5 (2026), 33 pp.
"While generic and frontier Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are expanding rapidly in global education, their lack of contextual sensitive and cultural awarenenss limits their efficacy in localized settings. Consequently, limited attention has been given to developing context-aware, culturally gro
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Dynamics and contours of online disinformation based on perspectives from Nigerian internet users
Discover Global Society, volume 4 (2026), 20 pp.
“This study examined how Nigerian social media and internet users experience, interpret, and respond to online disinformation. The study was guided by the Uses and Gratifications and Social Cognitive theories. It explored four interrelated research questions. A qualitative design was adopted, usin
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Generative AI & Journalism: Content, Journalistic Perceptions, and Audience Experiences
Melbourne: RMIT University (2025), 39 pp.
"This report brings together six discrete research and engagement activities over a three-year period (2022-24), drawing on fieldwork in seven countries (Australia, Germany, USA, UK, Norway, Switzerland, and France), and focuses on AI in journalism within three broad domains: AI-generated content in
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Journalism in the AI era: Opportunities and challenges in the Global South and emerging economies
Deep Insights
Thomson Reuters Foundation (2025), 66 pp.
"This report examines how journalists in the Global South and emerging economies are adopting and experiencing artificial intelligence. Based on a survey of 221 journalists across more than 70 countries, it investigates AI use in newsroom workflows, barriers to adoption, ethical concerns, misinforma
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ChatGPT and journalistic practices: Unpacking the Nigerian newsroom experiences
International Journal of Advanced Mass Communication and Journalism, volume 6, issue 1 (2025), pp. 93–99
“The research analyzes how ChatGPT transforms traditional news production methods in Nigerian newsrooms by studying its integration into journalistic work. The research analyzes the changes in journalistic routines together with professional consequences through qualitative interviews of thirteen
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Deciphering authenticity in the age of AI: how AI-generated disinformation images and AI detection tools influence judgements of authenticity
Deep Insights
Key Guides
AI & SOCIETY, volume 41 (2025), pp. 493–504
"An ongoing surge of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled false content has been spreading its way through the information ecosystem, including AI-generated images, which have been used as part of political disinformation campaigns. Thus, there remains a pressing need to understand which factors ind
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Media Self-Regulation in the Use of AI: Delimitation of Multimodal Generative Content and Ethical Commitments to Transparency and Verification
Journalism and Media, volume 6, issue 1 (2025), pp. 1–19
"The expansion of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) across different stages of production and distribution in journalism is opening a debate on its applications within newsrooms and in business models. This research studies how different media outlets, media groups and institutions are beginni
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Misinformation Trends and Fact-Checking Practices on Safaricom Kenya’s Twitter: An Online Content Review
American Journal of Communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2025), 1-15 pp.
This study examines how Safaricom Kenya handled misinformation on its official Twitter account, focusing on posts and audience engagement from January to June 2025. It considers rumors about service outages, prices, and security breaches, and describes the company’s use of multimedia fact-checking
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