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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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Political economy of disinformation and misinformation electioneering uptake in Ghana’s 2024 general election
African Journal of Social Issues, volume 9, issue 1 (2026), 361–381 pp.
"Disinformation and misinformation have become pervasive in electoral processes, influencing voter behaviour, party strategies, and democratic governance. This paper examines the socio-political dynamics that influence the uptake of disinformation and misinformation during the 2024 election period i
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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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Why we tell stories: Reports by journalists from Southeast Europe
Sofia: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Programme Southeast Europe (2026), 149 pp.
"We asked 17 journalists in twelve countries in South East Europe and beyond to write personal testimonies about why they are in journalism in these difficult times. These are media people of all ages and backgrounds, young budding writers, greyhaired seniors, war correspondents, television anchors
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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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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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Automated Disinformation and Malicious AI Swarms: Risks for Democracy and Development in Africa
Online: arXiv, First (2026), 26 pp.
"Generative artificial intelligence is reshaping how information is produced, accessed, and circulated, while enabling disinformation campaigns of increasing scale and sophistication. There is currently no clear evidence that fully autonomous AI swarms conduct influence operations at scale, but thei
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Los mundos del periodismo: Seguridad, autonomía profesional y resiliencia entre los periodistas en América Latina
Austin, Texas: Universidad de Texas en Austin, Centro Knight para el Periodismo en las Américas (2026), 107 pp.
"Basado en los resultados de 11 países latinoamericanos incluidos en la tercera ronda del estudio global Worlds of Journalism Study, este libro ofrece a periodistas, educadores y responsables políticos una visión única de lo que significa ser periodista en América Latina hoy en día. Cabe desta
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Understanding journalism impact: A multi-dimensional taxonomy for professional, organizational and societal change
Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2025), pp. 255 - 280
"How should we measure the impact of investigative journalism? Media scholars and practitioners have turned their attention towards understanding the causal effect of media reports on a range of social, political and economic outcomes. Their interest has been spurred by the increased availability of
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"The regional approach of the fact-checking organisations in the Balkans gives hope that they will be able to deal with crises. Milena Popovic from Istinomer shared the opinion that collaboration through joint investigations and coordinated responses to disinformation must be enhanced. In her view,
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
Deep Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2025), 170 pp.
"• Engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows. This is particularly the case in the United States where polling overlapped with the first few weeks of the new Trum
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Checking the Fact-Checkers: A Global Perspective
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xviii, 319 pp.
"Scholars from different regions, fields, and disciplines provide a unique global and multi-disciplinary perspective for understanding the landscape of fact-checking initiatives and formulating effective and context-dependent strategies. Drawing on diverse international case studies, the authors exp
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Generative AI & Journalism: Content, Journalistic Perceptions, and Audience Experiences
Melbourne: RMIT University (2025), 39 pp.
"This report brings together six discrete research and engagement activities over a three-year period (2022-24), drawing on fieldwork in seven countries (Australia, Germany, USA, UK, Norway, Switzerland, and France), and focuses on AI in journalism within three broad domains: AI-generated content in
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Mental health in Latin American journalists: Psycho-social impact and protective factors. A preliminary overview
Amsterdam; Mexico, DF: Free Press Unlimited; National Autonomous University of Mexico, Faculty of Psychology (2025), 33 pp.
"This report presents preliminary results from an online survey of 282 journalists across 18 countries, with a qualitative phase planned to deepen these insights. Our focus was on symptoms related to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and burnout, as well as organizational a
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Artificial Intelligence and Journalism in Four African Countries: Optimists, Pessimists, and Pragmatists
Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 10 (2025), pp. 2249–2265
"This study examines how journalists in four African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa) perceive and utilise AI tools in news production. The study draws on “imagined affordance” as a theoretical framework and semi-structured interviews with journalists in the four countries. Th
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