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Disaggregating normative commitment under structural fragility: the case of the Afghan media
Cogent Social Sciences, volume 12, issue 1 (2026), pp. 1-20
"Social Responsibility Theory (SRT) of media is considered as one of the oldest normative theories. Despite its importance it has been understudied in post-conflict countries such as Afghanistan. Using a convergent parallel mixed-methods design, this study investigates the extent to which Afghan jou
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Journalismuskulturen in Sierra Leone: Zwischen globalen Normen und lokalen Zwängen
Cham: Springer VS (2026), xxi, 238 pp.
"Dieses Buch bietet neue Einblicke in die Perspektiven von Journalist:innen in Sierra Leone und in ihre Arbeit, indem es ihre journalistischen Werte und die Einflüsse untersucht, die diese prägen. Es betrachtet Journalismus sowohl als berufliche Identität als auch als eine Gemeinschaft, die auf d
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AI-Powered Fact-Checking and Verification Tools
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 23 pp.
"This paper is a practical and critical guide to AI-powered fact-checking and verification tools. It explains how automated fact-checking works as a pipeline; it maps the four families of tools a journalist can use; it assesses their real accuracy and their limits honestly, including the striking fi
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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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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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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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Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: Insights From the Global South
Media and Communication, volume 14 (2026), 19 pp.
"Scholarship on AI and journalism in the Global South has highlighted how digital and data colonialism reproduce global hierarchies of power, labour, and knowledge, often through platform capitalism and externally controlled technological infrastructures. Yet limited empirical research examines how
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AI in the media: Kenya and South Africa
Bonn; Stellenbosch (ZA): Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) (2026), 27 pp.
"This study shows that AI remains largely an underexplored, and often misunderstood, topic for journalism in South Africa and Kenya. Stories can be framed in overly positive terms, such as the potential AI holds for development and social change, or negative terms, by highlighting the extractive nat
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Fact-checking and Investigative Journalism’s Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Journalism Practice (2026), pp. 1-21
"The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in newsrooms has created new opportunities and challenges for journalism. A significant opportunity lies in the use of AI technologies for investigative journalism and fact-checking, core functions of the field. Grounded in technological appropri
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Osint: Wie Sie Informationen Finden, Verifizieren und Verknüpfen
Key Guides
Bonn: Rheinwerk Verlag (2026), 451 pp.
"OSINT steht für Open Source Intelligence: die Kunst, Informationen aus offenen Quellen zu gewinnen, sie auszuwerten und zu verstehen. Jedermann darf das, aber nur wenige können es richtig. In diesem Leitfaden zeigt Ihnen Samuel Lolagar Methoden und Tools für umfassende Recherchen. Sie lernen, wi
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Learning from Indigenous Journalism: A Case for Standpoint Journalism
Journalism Studies, volume 27, issue 4 (2026), pp. 439-459
"This essay examines the similarities and differences between the values underpinning Indigenous and Western journalism. It contributes to broader conversations about the conception and study of journalism through three key contributions. Theoretically, it bridges feminist standpoint and Indigenous
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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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Detecting and Countering AI-Enabled Disinformation
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 18 pp.
"This paper is a practical handbook for detecting and countering AI-enabled disinformation. Itexplains how synthetic media, deepfakes, cloned voices, generated images and persuasive fake text, is produced, amplified and monetised; it presents a four-layer verification stack and the SIFT method for a
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AI-Assisted Journalism and Media: Opportunities and Challenges
Deep Insights
Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 1st (2026), 172 pp.
"This edited volume examines how artificial intelligence is transforming journalism and newsroom practices, balancing practical opportunities with professional and ethical challenges. Its chapters cover AI-supported news gathering, verification, automated content production, audience engagement, new
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Navigating risks and rewards: How South African journalists use AI in the newsroom
Johannesburg; Stellenbosch: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa; Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) (2026), 33 pp.
"This study demonstrates impressively how widely AI is already used in South African newsrooms – often, however, without systematic training, without editorial guidelines, and without tools adapted to African languages and contexts. The interviews make it clear that journalists stand between curio
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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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Sudan Digital Investigation Hub: A practical investigation toolkit designed for Sudanese journalists and civil society actors working in high-risk digital environments
London: Thomson Foundation (2026)
"The Sudan Digital Investigation Hub was created in response to the growing risks posed by information manipulation, online incitement, and the rapid spread of unverified content in conflict settings. Journalists and civil society actors are increasingly required to navigate complex digital environm
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Sustaining hyperlocal journalism with generative AI: Business model innovation and ethical tensions in Indonesian digital newsrooms
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (2026), pp. 1–28
"This article connects GenAI adoption to the financial and editorial pressures facing small Indonesian newsrooms. Its key contribution is showing that productivity and revenue gains can be real but modest, and do not resolve deeper structural precarity. It also gives practical options for responsibl
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A scoping review of anglophone scholarship on trauma and journalism in sub-Saharan Africa
Journalism (2026), 21 pp.
"This scoping review maps anglophone scholarship on trauma and journalism in and/or about sub-Saharan Africa published between 1990 and 2025. Rather than assuming a single universal definition of trauma, the review examines how trauma is implicitly and explicitly conceptualised within this literatur
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AI Adoption in the Global South
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 14 pp.
"This paper examines how artificial intelligence is being adopted, and resisted, in the newsrooms and journalism schools of the Global South, with a close focus on East Africa." (About this paper, page 2)
