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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2026), xiii, 292 pp.
"Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World examines reportage as an important aesthetic form of cultural production in the Sinophone world. Originating as a proletarian nonfiction form in interwar Europe, reportage spread around the world, coming into its own in the Sinophone world from the 1930s to t
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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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Critiquing Generative AI in Africa's Media Ecosystems
London; New York: Routledge (2026), 215 pp.
"The book argues that as technology is a social construct reflecting existing power dynamics, those in the Global South, and in Africa in particular, are bound to be marginalised and have their knowledge, systems overlooked as the Global North dominates technological developments. The birth of AI ha
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Generative AI in Journalism
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper is a practical and critical guide to creating with generative AI in journalism. It maps the four modalities, text, image, audio and video, and what generative tools genuinely do in the newsroom; it sets out the disclosure and labelling standards now hardening into law, from the EU AI Act
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AI, Data Journalism and Investigative Reporting in Africa
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 32 pp.
"This paper examines AI, data journalism and investigative reporting in Africa. It sets out the data-investigation pipeline and where AI genuinely helps; it surveys the African data-journalism ecosystem, from Code for Africa to GIJN to InfoNile; it documents real investigations, from East African pr
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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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AI in the Newsroom: Practices and Case Studies
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 16 pp.
"This paper is a grounded account of how AI is really used in newsrooms today, not how it is imagined. It maps AI across the five stages of the news value chain; it documents the adoption paradox in which usage races ahead of strategy and confidence; it compares three institutional paths (Reuters, t
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