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Setting the Agenda on Development: A Content Analysis of How Senegalese Newspapers Report on Local and Foreign Aid
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 61-74
"The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid in the economies of sub-Saharan Africa often overlooks how the local journalists of a region report on aid. This study is a quantitative content analysis assessing how newspapers in Senegal write about different forms of aid received within the country
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How do non-governmental organizations influence media coverage of conflict? The case of the Syrian conflict, 2011–2014
Media, War & Conflict, volume 11, issue 1 (2018), pp. 149-171
"It is often argued that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly visible in media discourses on armed conflict and thus play a growing role in shaping states’ foreign policies. However, there is little investigation of their influence on specific conflict coverage and what t
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Who's Reporting Africa Now? Non-Governmental Organizations, Journalists, and Multimedia
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xiv, 280 pp.
"As news organizations cut correspondent posts and foreign bureaux, non-governmental organizations have begun to expand into news reporting. But why and how do journalists use the photographs, video, and audio that NGOs produce? What are the effects of this on the kinds of stories told about Africa?
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NGOs as Newsmakers: The Changing Landscape of International News
New York: Columbia University Press (2018), 224 pp.
"In NGOs as Newsmakers, Matthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Drawing on interviews, observations, and content analysis, he charts the dramatic growth in NGO news-making efforts, examines whether these efforts increase
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Die Spitze des Eisbergs: Spendenwerbung der internationalen Hilfsorganisationen - Kritik und Alternativen
Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD);Glokal e.V. (2017), 35 pp.
"Das berüchtigte Bild des hungernden, nackten, ungeschützten Kindes ist ein Leitmotiv in der humanitären Hilfe, das bis heute kollektive und individuelle Vorstellungswelten im Globalen Norden formt. Die Bilderwelten, die die Krisen im Globalen Süden porträtieren, sind geprägt von einer kolonia
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Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xiii, 165 pp.
"Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering. The book highlights what NGOs seek to achi
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The People in the Pictures: Vital Perspectives on Save the Children’s Image Making. A Research Project to Understand How Contributors and Their Communities Experience and Perceive Save the Children’s Communications and its Image-Making Process
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Save the Children (2017), xi, 81 pp.
"Debates about the visual representations of global poverty have been going on for many years, yet the experiences and views of those featured have been notably absent. 'The People in the Pictures' addresses that gap. Save the Children commissioned research in the UK, Jordan, Bangladesh and Niger, t
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Humanitäre Kommunikation: Entwicklung und Emotionen bei britischen NGOs 1945-1990
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2017), vi, 318 pp.
"Matthias Kuhnert geht der Frage nach, wie zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen bei der Bevölkerung um Unterstützung für ihre Tätigkeit warben. Am Beispiel zweier britischer NGOs, War on Want und Christian Aid, wird deutlich, welche Emotionen humanitäre Organisationen einsetzten, um ihre Botschaften
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Philanthrocapitalists and the Humanitarian Agenda: Motivations, Metrics, and Media Power
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 505-515
"This chapter has outlined the philosophical motivations and strategic practices of philanthrocapitalists, interrogating the key place of communication technology and media storytelling within their humanitarian activities. It also explored the central critiques of philanthrocapitalism that have eme
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Developing News: Global Journalism and the Coverage of "Third World" Development
London; New York: Routledge (2017), vii, 178 pp.
Representing ‘development’ on Instagram: Questioning ‘what’, ‘who’, and ‘how’ of development in digital space
Journal of International Communication, volume 27, issue 2 (2017), pp. 192-214
"Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication strategies. The advent of image-intensive digital spaces such as Instagram has facilitated communication for these institutions, making ‘development’ more accessible to the public. However, the representation
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Opening the News Gates? Humanitarian and Human Rights NGOs in the US News Media, 1990-2010
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 3 (2016), pp. 315-331
"This study examines whether changes in the media, political, and civic landscapes give leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs) increased news access. Using longitudinal content analysis (1990-2010) of a purposive sample of US news outlets, it compares the prevalence, prominence, and story loc
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Moving Media and Conflict Studies Beyond the CNN Effect
Review of International Studies, volume 42, issue 4 (2016), pp. 654-672
"After the ‘CNN effect’ concept was coined two decades ago, it quickly became a popular shorthand to understand media-conflict interactions. Although the connection has probably always been more complex than what was captured in the concept, research needs to be updated in order to better unders
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O Desenvolvimento nos Media: Percepções e Visões de Jornalistas e Profissionais da área do Desenvolvimento
ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2016), 173 pp.
Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xv, 239 pp.
"This book examines what the diverse roster of celebrity humanitarians are actually doing in and across North and South contexts. Celebrity humanitarianism is an effective lens for viewing the multiple and diverse relationships that constitute the links between North and South. New empirical finding
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Humanitarianism, Communications and Change
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 279 pp.
The Practicalities of Informed Consent in Development Photography
Dhaka: Save the Children (2015), 16 pp.
"Every photography subject deserves to be treated as an autonomous human being, capable of making independent decisions. In case of children, we also need to ensure their parents’ consent. We need to be constantly aware of our position in the power hierarchy — in the development world, in many c
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"These Grey Areas": How and Why Freelance Work Blurs INGOs and News Organizations
Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 8 (2015), pp. 989-1009
"International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are known to employ freelancers to produce multimedia and to pitch it for them to mainstream news outlets. So it seems odd that research about the blurring of news organizations and INGOs has been largely focused upon the practices of full-time s
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"A Horrific Photo of a Drowned Syrian Child": Humanitarian Photography and NGO Media Strategies in Historical Perspective
International Review of the Red Cross, volume 97, issue 900 (2015), pp. 1121-1155
"This article is a historical examination of the use of photography in the informational and fundraising strategies of humanitarian organizations. Drawing on archival research and recent scholarship, it shows that the figure of the dead or suffering child has been a centrepiece of humanitarian campa
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The Freelancer-NGO Alliance: What a Story of Kenyan Waste Reveals About Contemporary Foreign News Production
Journalism Studies, volume 16, issue 2 (2015), pp. 275-288
"This paper explores the impact that emerging partnerships - particularly between freelancers and nonprofits - are having on the practices of contemporary foreign news reporting. Through an exploration of a widely published project on a health crisis in East Africa-funded by the Pulitzer Center on C
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