"Despite the generalizations and stereotypes that are often used to describe Africa in popular (and journalistic) discourses, the continent's diversity escapes easy categorization or glib narratives of either the 'Hopeless Continent' or 'Africa Rising' variety - the two poles between which the Econo
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mist's coverage has veered in recent years. Africa is a continent after all, not a country (as the blog www.africasacountry.com so splendidly keeps reminding us in its coverage of the variety of African media and culture). This variety applies to journalism on the continent as well. Africa's journalism is delivered across a wide range of platforms, from legacy media such as newspapers (which do not quite share the same rapid decline as their counterparts in the mediasaturated North) and radio (still the pervasive medium on the continent), to the citizen journalism found in the rapidly growing number of online and mobile platforms. This issue of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies includes research pertaining to the variety of platforms and practices of journalism in Africa, and how the media continue to evolve, merge and mutate." (Introduction)
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"Um primeiro olhar sobre os resultados da pesquisa demonstra claramente o ainda pequeno interesse da imprensa a respeito do tema. A cobertura do financiamento de atividades produtivas sustentáveis na Amazônia é escassa, irregular e sazonal. Os 46 jornais analisados na presente pesquisa publicaram
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, ao longo do ano, 179 matérias, o que significa uma matéria publicada a cada três meses por jornal. Vale destacar que em pesquisa semelhante realizada pela ANDI a respeito da cobertura da imprensa sobre desmatamento da Amazônia, a média mensal de matérias publicadas foi de seis matérias por veículo. Além disso, a cobertura é feita de forma mais contundente pelos jornais considerados de alcance mais abrangente. Na prática, a média anual de matérias veiculadas em cada jornal de circulação nacional foi de 11,2 – pouco menos de uma matéria por mês. Entre os regionais, essa média foi de 2,8 matérias – cerca de uma matéria a cada quatro meses." (Página 5)
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"This article utilizes new institutional theory and its principle – coercive isomorphism – to examine explicit and implicit pressures exerted on news organizations by a regional government in Russia in 2009 and 2010. The study found that while empowering regional reporters by the myth of helping
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underprivileged citizens, the authorities divert the media from scrutinizing the government. The political officials outsource media relations to media themselves, turning them into public relations agents. This mission seems to homogenize the content of regional newspapers since the government becomes the main source of information." (Abstract)
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"Acknowledgement of the increasingly central role of data in decision making at all levels of society is increasingly visible. The High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda called for “A New Data Revolution” that would help track progress toward development goals and ensure the inclus
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ion of all people in human development. But for data to truly forge inclusiveness in development, multilateral organizations, governments, NGOs, companies, and citizens will increasingly need “infomediaries” to chase down and make sense of the most relevant data of interest to people. This new data can be an important building block for creating sustainable media institutions, stimulating wider demand for fact-based policy and decision making, and measuring progress. Today, more transparency in budgets, spending data, or service provision statistics can likewise be a critical raw material for enterprising media [...] But all of these promises will not be realized just by training journalists and providing them with the latest digital tools. The specter of all of the other well-known challenges to practicing journalism–censorship, attacks on journalists, criminal libel laws, and collapsing business models–is a reminder that in the absence of a stable, enabling, and supporting environment, data journalism is likely to remain an unfulfilled promise. The international development community should work more closely with media developers to ensure that the critical role of media is well understood and factored into overall development planning." (Conclusion)
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"This paper compares and contrasts four centers: The Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina (CIN), The Journalism Training and Research Initiative in Bangladesh (JATRI), the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in Jordan (ARIJ), and The Caucasus Media Investigations Center (
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CMIC) in Azerbaijan. No officials or funders ever announce failures or label projects like these failures. But this paper posits that those centers designed and run by journalists to actively report are more effective in fulfilling their role as watch-dogs, as well as more sustainable. They perform better at developing future practitioners and instilling an investigative reporting tradition in new places. This examination suggests that donors hoping to implant successful centers increase their chances when they match ambitions to the political and legal climate of host countries, commit to multi-year involvement, and select passionate leaders with clout in the eyes of other journalists in their host regions. This study suggest that centers designed by outsiders and run by non-journalists tend to evolve into generalized research, resource and training centers." (Introduction)
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"This toolkit is designed for journalists working in any media – newspapers, radio, and television – as well as bloggers and other information professionals who need to get access to information held by public bodies for their stories. The toolkit is for journalists making requests in their own
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country or considering submitting a request in another country. It is based on a comparative analysis of the access to information laws in the region covered by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which has 56 participating states in Europe, Central Asia and North America; of these 48 have legal provisions on the right of access to information held by public bodies; the law of Kosovo is also analysed." (Overview, page 7)
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"This groundbreaking new book presents the most important examples of world-changing journalism, spanning one hundred years and every continent. Carefully curated by prominent international journalists working in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, Global Muckraking includes Ke
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n Saro-Wiwa's defense of the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta; Horacio Verbitsky's uncovering of the gruesome disappearance of political detainees in Argentina; Gareth Jones's coverage of the Ukraine famine of 1932-33; missionary newspapers' coverage of Chinese foot binding in the nineteenth century; Dwarkanath Ganguli's expose; of the British "coolie" trade in nineteenth-century Assam, India; and many others." (Publisher description)
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"Führen Globalisierung und Digitalisierung bei Journalisten zu einer weltweit einheitlichen Rollenvorstellung (= Illusio)? Rund 70 Leitfaden-Interviews mit Online-Journalisten zeigen das Fortbestehen nationaler und internationaler Unterschiede - aber auch eine klare Tendenz: Auf der Suche nach mög
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lichst vielen Klicks verlieren die Journalisten den Glauben an die klassische Gatekeeper-Rolle; sie werden "Gatepusher'." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This study aims to examine journalistic convergence in China. Using qualitative data drawn from the case study of Shenzhen Press Group in Guangdong, South China, we argue that the media's response to the Chinese government's push for media convergence is simply a gesture of compliance. While media
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management do not consider convergence as a prime concern, rank-and-file editors and journalists respond to media convergence with non-cooperation or non-acceptance. The study concludes, on the basis of the specific contexts in which China's media convergence operates, that social context and, in particular, the relationship between media and state should be fully taken into consideration in studies of media convergence." (Abstract)
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"This study (a) investigates the complex set of emergent meanings from Al-Jazeera's visual narratives about itself, and (b) analyzes how Al-Jazeera's visual texts articulate a broader set of nationalist meanings concerning Qatar, its home country. Rather than a content analysis of language, visual e
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lements are emphasized, which transcend the news story or program content. The "content" here involves not just events themselves but the metatextual meanings emerging from the images woven among programs, promotional videos, and commercial advertisements." (Abstract)
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"This guide has been created to provide a practical resource to media professionals interested in reporting on the issues facing people with disabilities in Indonesia. It is a ‘one-stop’ source for information on global disability statistics, and provides practical guidance on appropriate termin
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ology, tips on reporting, references to key national and international standards with a particular focus on the right to training and employment of people with disabilities. It also provides contact details of organizations working on disability issues. This pocket guide is intended for people working as editors, journalists, broadcasters, producers, programme makers and presenters. They are also relevant to people working as web editors, and on interactive multimedia products." (Page 10)
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"Veteran journalist Keith Hayes, who has worked for such organizations as Reuters, PBS, the BBC, CBC, and CNBC, provides a quick reference to journalistic practice that covers everything from how to meet a deadline to getting answers from company or government officials who would rather not talk. It
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also provides background on specific knowledge that journalists should have to report on the business and the economy accurately and with insight. That includes understanding the major markets and how they work, learning to read a balance sheet, and getting the story even when a company or government sets up roadblocks. As Hayes demonstrates, effective journalists are story tellers who need to tell the story well while making certain they are providing the facts as they find them and understand them. Among other things, readers will also learn: how to write a business news story; how to report business news on television; how to report in a globalized business world; how to get usable information from press conferences and briefings; the basics of macroeconomics, the financial markets, and company-specific financial data; how to dig for facts and get the story." (Publisher description)
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"The KAS Media Program South East Europe has [...] developed a training course in self-employment for online journalists, which took place for the first time from 23rd to 25th October 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia. The findings from this training are presented in a compact form in this handbook. It is es
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pecially suitable for journalistic start-ups on the Internet, but also gives freelance journalists in other media divisions valuable suggestions. Of course, many tips are not limited to South Eastern Europe, but are of universal application." (Foreword)
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"The book contains profiles of 12 women between the ages of 18 and 26 that were selected to follow a 3-month journalism fellowship and work at community radio stations. The program was designed and implemented by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) in cooperation with 11 comm
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unity radio stations across Bangladesh and supported by Free Press Unlimited. During the fellowship the women received training and mentoring and afterward started reporting and producing programs and articles reflecting the problems and everyday life of women, children, disadvantaged groups and poor from rural and remote areas [...] Though this program the fellows have not only developed their personal and professional skills. 10 out of the 12 fellows are already employed in media, and some have even become station managers." (Preface)
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