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Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism: A Step-By-Step Guide

Brigitte Alfter

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xiii, 186 pp.

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Reporting War and Conflict

Janet Harris, Kevin Williams

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xii, 218 pp.

"The book provides an historical and theoretical context to risk culture and the work of war correspondents, paying particular attention to the changing nature of technology, organisational structures and the role of witnessing. The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria are examined to highlight ... more

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China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet
Top Insights

Iginio Gagliardone

London: Zed Books (2019), xi, 192 pp.

"Featuring a wealth of interviews with a variety of actors – from Chinese and African journalists in Chinese media to Chinese workers for major telecommunication companies – this highly original book demonstrates how China is both contributing to the 'Africa rising' narrative while exploiting th ... more

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Refugee News, Refugee Politics: Journalism, Public Opinion and Policymaking in Europe

Giovanna Dell'Orto, Irmgard Wetzstein (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2019), xxiv, 228 pp.

"What is the role of the news media in telling the story of the 2010s refugee crisis at a time of deepening crisis for journalism, as “fake news” ran rampant amid an increasingly distrustful public? This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader original research and candid frontl ... more

Advanced Digital Technology and Genocide and Mass Atrocities Prevention

Steven Livingston, Alice Musabende

In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond

Allan Thompson (ed.)

Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 557-577

"There is no doubt that technology has improved the ability to document war crimes and human rights abuses, even in otherwise inaccessible locations. The world now sees, often in close to real-time, atrocities that would have been lost to the world only a handful of years ago. But does knowing neces ... more

e-Media Toolkit on Migration: Trainer's Manual

FRA – European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2019), 68 pp.

"This pilot toolkit has been devised by journalists and media trainers to help reporters and editors working on international migration. It will be the starting point of a broader project on how to cover news while maintaining respect for diversity and human rights. Its premise is that diversity and ... more

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Public Diplomacy: Messung, Entstehung und Gestaltung von Landesimages

Diana Ingenhoff, Alexander Buhmann

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2019), 269 pp.

"Diana Ingenhoff und Alexander Buhmann führen in den aktuellen Forschungs- und Wissensstand zu Public Diplomacy und insbesondere zu Landesimages ein. Sie reflektieren dabei Fragen der Messung, Entstehung und Gestaltung von Landesimages und geben Antworten auf die folgenden Leitfragen: Welche Aspekt ... more

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International Communication: Continuity and Change

Daya Kishan Thussu

London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, 3rd ed. (2019), xxii, 369 pp.

"This book maps out the expansion of media and telecommunications corporations within the macro-economic context of liberalisation, deregulation and privitisation. It then goes on to explore the impact of such growth on audiences in different cultural contexts and from regional, national and interna ... more

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e-Media Toolkit [on Migration Reporting]. Human News Stories: Learn, Train and Share
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European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA);Ethical Journalism Network (EJN);European Broadcasting Union (EBU) (2019)

"The online e-Media Toolkit provides first-hand assistance to media professionals with learning resources, training courses, and opportunities to share and interact in three sections: 1. Learning: allows users to take courses in which journalists or editors of leading media outlets share their real- ... more

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The Fixers: Local News Workers and the Underground Labor of International Reporting

Lindsay Palmer

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), viii, 226 pp.

"Though news fixers are vital to the practice of international reporting-helping journalists to understand foreign languages, set up compelling interviews, and navigate unfamiliar terrain-their role is rarely made transparent to news audiences. Without news fixers, journalists would struggle to cove ... more

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A Clash of Cultures: Pirate Radio Convergence and Reception in Africa

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara

In: The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media

Chris Atton (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), pp. 494-504

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NGOs as Newsmakers: The Changing Landscape of International News

Matthew Powers

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 ... more

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Understanding Global Media

Terry Flew

London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd ed. (2018), xii, 227 pp.

"Taking a comparative approach to the major theories of global media, Terry Flew looks at the rise of global media production networks and the emergence of 'media cities', multiculturalism, and the question of a global media culture. This engaging book raises the question of whether we are now in a ... more

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Setting the Agenda on Development: A Content Analysis of How Senegalese Newspapers Report on Local and Foreign Aid

Jeslyn Lemke

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 ... more

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Transnationalizing Radio Research: New Approaches to an Old Medium

Golo Föllmer, Alexander Badenoch (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2018), 313 pp.

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Action Steps: A Decade of Civil Society Advocacy in the Information Society. A Baseline Review of the Global Information Society Watch Country Reports (2007-2017)

Alan Finlay

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 80 pp.

"This review looks back over 11 years of civil society advocacy in the information society – a total of 510 country reports published in Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) from 2007 to 2017. It covers a period of important global shifts, from the exponential growth and influence of social ... more

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The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age

Tal Morse

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xvi, 267 pp.

"The book develops the analytics of grievability as an analytical framework that unpacks the ways in which news about death constructs grievable death and articulates relational ties between spectators and sufferers. The book employs the analytics of grievability in a comparative manner and analyses ... more

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Kriegsberichterstattung und Konfliktsensitivität: Qualitätsjournalismus zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit

Mathias Alexander Wolff

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018), xx, 340 pp.

"[...] untersucht, wie konfliktsensitiv die deutsche Qualitätspresse über Kriege berichtet. Die empirische Antwort auf diese Frage ist für die mediale Glaubwürdigkeit elementar - und sie fällt ernüchternd aus. In zentralen Qualitätsdimensionen ist die Kriegsberichterstattung defizitär, was v ... more

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