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Covid-19 Response in Africa: Together for Reliable Information. Final Evaluation

Michelle Betz, Elizabeth Adundo, Emmanuel Wongibe
Free Press Unlimited (2022), 50 pp.
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Local Climate Change Reporting: Assessing the Impacts of Climate Journalism Workshops

William A. Yagatich, Eryn Campbell, Amanda C. Borth, Shaelyn M. Patzen, Kristin M. F. Timm et al.
Weather, Climate, and Society, volume 14 (2022), pp. 415-423
"Prior research suggests that climate stories are rarely reported by local news outlets in the United States. As part of the Climate Matters in the Newsroom project}a program for climate-reporting resources designed to help journalists report local climate stories}we conducted a series of local clim ... more
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Lack of trust in government, reliance on social media may drive vaccine hesitancy in Zimbabwe

Jonathan Kugarakuripi, Stephen Ndoma
Afrobarometer (2022), 8 pp.
"Findings from the most recent Afrobarometer survey in Zimbabwe show that about half of citizens are reluctant to take the vaccine, an attitude that is particularly prevalent among the most highly educated and among supporters of the opposition MDC-Chamisa party. Fewer than half of adults trust the ... more
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How to Prepare for High-Risk Reporting Situation

Malva Izquierdo
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 26 pp.
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Seeing the (In)justice of Sustainability: Visualizing Inequality at the Centre of Climate Change Communication

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 3-186
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Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation at COP26 and Beyond

Jennie King, Lukasz Janulewicz, Francesca Arcostanzo
Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD); CASM Technology (2022), 115 pp.
"In February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) took an unprecedented step, citing mis- and disinformation and the “politicization of science” as key barriers to action. For the first time, a document accepted by all Member Governments stated that rhetoric from “vested ... more
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Precariously Employed Climate Journalists: The Challenges of Freelance Climate Journalists in South Asia

Mushfique Wadud
Journalism Practice, issue 2-3 (2022), pp. 262-280
"Declines in the number of foreign correspondents and bureaus have caused media to rely on freelance journalists, particularly on coverage of complex and topical issues such as climate change. This study examines the challenges freelance climate journalists in South Asia face and how they negotiate ... more
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The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication

Teresa L. Thompson, Nancy Grant Harrington (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge, 3rd ed. (2022), xviii, 611 pp.
"A seminal text in the field, this new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication provides students and scholars with a comprehensive survey of the subject's key research foundations and trends, authored the by discipline's leading scholars. The third edition has been completely updat ... more
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Radio Drama as a Tool for Activism in South Africa: The Case of 'Plague in the Time of King Kapital and Queen Corona'

Neroli Price, Laura Garbes
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 19, issue 1 (2021), pp. 59-77
"How can sound be utilized as a tool for political conscientization? COVID-19 has disrupted face-to-face organizing tactics for progressive movements globally, making it necessary to branch out to more mediated forms of grassroots political organizing. In this article, we explore how sound might be ... more
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Hygiene and Behaviour Change Coalition Project: Reach and Engagement Survey Somalia

London: BBC Media Action (2021), 4 pp.
"BBC Media Action is helping to reduce the transmission of the coronavirus in Somalia by using a media campaign ‘hello hope: bye bye COVID’ to encourage uptake of preventative behaviours. Informed by research we are challenging attitudes and beliefs around coronavirus transmission and encouragin ... more
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Philanthropy-Funded Journalism: Implications for Media Independence and Editorial Credibility in South Africa

Dumisani Moyo
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Hopeton S. Dunn, Dumisani Moyo, William O. Lesitaokana, Shanade Bianca Barnabas (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), pp. 193-216
"Over the past decade, philanthropic organisations have poured millions of dollars into different specialised forms of journalism in Africa. While these new specialised forms of journalism are aimed at addressing existing gaps in news reporting on the continent, there has been growing concern over t ... more
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Handbook for Interactive Audio Instruction: Planning and Implementing Radio Lessons in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Paris: UNESCO (2021), 88 pp.
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Performance Activism: Precursors and Contemporary Pioneers
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Dan Friedman
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), x, 292 pp.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Journalism in Emerging Economies and the Global South
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Damian Radcliffe
Thomson Reuters Foundation (2021), 141 pp.
"55 alumni of training programmes run by the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) shared their experiences about living – and working – in the COVID era. These insights, coupled with extensive desk research and analysis, inform the narrative of this new report [...] COVID-19 has had a twin impact on ... more
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Ten Lessons Learnt: Scaling and Transitioning One of the Largest Mobile Health Communication Programmes in the World to a National Government

Sara Chamberlain, Priyanka Dutt, Anna Godfrey, Radharani Mitra, Amnesty Elizabeth LeFevre et al.
BMJ Global Health, volume 6, issue e005341 (2021), 6 pp.
"There has been exponential growth in the numbers of ‘digital development’ programmes seeking to leverage technology to solve systemic challenges. However, despite promising results and a shift from pilots to scale-ups, many have failed to realise their full potential. This paper reflects on les ... more
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Hygiene and Behaviour Change Coalition Project: Reach and Engagement Survey Afghanistan

London: BBC Media Action (2021), 4 pp.
"BBC Media Action is helping to reduce the transmission of the coronavirus in Afghanistan by using a media campaign to encourage uptake of preventive behaviours. Informed by research the project’s media outputs aim to help reduce the transmission of the coronavirus by encouraging take up of the fo ... more
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Radio comunitaria en pandemia: Aprendizajes y experiencias

Edmundo Armando Grijalva Brito (coord.)
Cuenca; Quito: Universidad Politécnica Salesiana; Abya-Yala (2021), 126 pp.
"¿Qué papel tuvieron las radios comunitarias durante la pandemia? Los autores de esta publicación analizan el contexto y los desafíos de la comunicación popular en Ecuador. La infodemia, la proliferación de noticias falsas, las dificultades de los medios de comunicación tradicionales en llega ... more
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Social Media for Behaviour Change Toolkit (SM4BC) for Disaster Preparedness and Disaster Risk Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Nedra Kline Weinreich
Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (2021), 170 pp.
"This toolkit will help you to learn and apply the most important concepts of behaviour change to use in your social media planning, content development and outreach. In fact, the ideas you’ll gather here can help you with all aspects of your program’s communications and project design. The acti ... more
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Media and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Africa (Part One)

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 13, issue 2 (2021), pp. 133-299
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Using Narrative Evidence to Convey Health Information on Social Media: The Case of COVID-19

Anat Gesser-Edelsburg
Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 23, issue 3 e24948 (2021), 17 pp.
"During disease outbreaks or pandemics, policy makers must convey information to the public for informative purposes (eg, morbidity or mortality rates). They must also motivate members of the public to cooperate with the guidelines, specifically by changing their usual behavior. Policy makers have t ... more