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Teaching Journalism for Sustainable Development: New Syllabi

Fackson Banda (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (2015), 165 pp.

"This work aims to extend the UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education to include new syllabi covering emerging or particularly relevant themes in journalism education globally. As such, it builds on the model curricula – as well as the supplementary UNESCO publication titled A Compendium o ... more

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Model Curricula for Journalism Education: A Compendium of New Syllabi
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Fackson Banda (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (2013), 217 pp.

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Safety and journalism

Erick Fernández Saldaña

In: Model Curricula for Journalism Education: A Compendium of New Syllabi

Fackson Banda (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (2013), pp. 195-207

"This course aims to analyse the context in which journalists and communicators are working at local, national, regional and international level, and to help them to identify potential risks, to learn safe protocols and to know about those institutions and procedures that can help them." (Abstract)

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Media and Information Literacy: Policy and Strategy Guidelines

Alton Grizzle, Penny Moore, Michael Dezuanni, Sanjay Asthana, Carolyn Wilson, Fackson Banda, Chido Onumah

Paris: UNESCO (2013), 196 pp.

"This comprehensive MIL (Media and Information Literacy) Policy and Strategy Guidelines resource is the first of its kind to treat MIL as a composite concept, unifying information literacy and media literacy as well as considering the right to freedom of expression and access to information through ... more

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Negotiating Journalism Ethics in Zambia: Towards a 'Glocal' Ethics

Fackson Banda

In: Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective

Stephen J. A. Ward, Herman Wasserman (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2010), pp. 124-141

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Citizen Journalism and Democracy in Africa: An Exploratory Study

Fackson Banda

Grahamstown: Highway Africa, School of Journalism & Media Studies, Rhodes University (2010), 81 pp.

"The study identifies and analyses two types of citizen journalism: non-institutional and institutional. Exploratory in nature, the study is underpinned by four specific objectives, namely to: analyse the social context of the practice of citizen journalism in Africa; assess the technological basis ... more

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Beyond Broadcasting: The Future of State-Owned Broadcasters in Southern Africa

Guy Berger

Fackson Banda; Jane Duncan; Rashweat Mukundu; Zenaida Machado (contrib.)

Grahamstown: Highway Africa, School of Journalism & Media Studies, Rhodes University; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 65 pp.

"Digital communications technology does many new things. Its spread means that it is no longer a case of a tiny minority of professionals and politicians having a monopoly on mass communication. Implicit in the observations of this report, is the recognition that - amongst other things - digitisatio ... n also disrupts old boundaries between inter-personal and mass communication. What used to be the subject of, or product of, communication between a few individuals, can increasingly be put into the public sphere. Much of this content remains personal in quality, despite it being public in availability. But there is also much that is of public interest. In some ways, this therefore threatens those institutions supposed to be specialising in public interest information. In other ways, it can help them not only reinforce this mission, but to also take a step towards expanding their role into becoming wider public interest content and commun-ications agencies. They can, in short, be the motive force that pulls personal conversations into focussing on journalism that is of common public interest. That image of leading the transformation of mass communication is, however, just one of the scenarios outlined in this report. The others point to lesser roles, even including extinction. It should be noted that scenarios are not predictions of the future, but attempts to highlight a range of possible options. They help guide action in one or other direction. The complication is that digitisation and all that comes with it can deal a surprise to even the best-considered scenario possibilities. Who would have thought that a search engine company (Google) could become such an effective player in the advertising arena? Or that newspaper newsrooms would start hiring video-capable staffers, or that some cell-phone companies would move into distributing content? Could anyone have guessed that a company like Twitter could attract and burn millions of dollars of investment without even a proper business plan about how it intends to make money? The digital revolution, if it is to succeed, needs to have top quality cadres in the newsrooms. In the face of these kinds of developments, it is tempting to throw up one’s hands and take a come-what-may approach. That’s preferable to the illusion of controlling and managing the process. At the same time, between these two extremes of paralysis and over-planning, there is a broad direction that can be identified and pursued. We may not know exactly where we are going, but - as this Report seeks to do - we can look at where we are and what’s immediately ahead. More fundamentally, however, there’s worth in remembering from whence we come. In other words, while looking at the present and near-present, and keeping an eye on what future scenarios we can imagine, we can hold onto our values. In the context of public broadcasting, these values are - in a nutshell - to focus mass communications on deepening democracy and development. These public interest values remain all the more valid in a time when the historical informational “service” model is being expanded to also function as a public interest communicational mode. Keeping these ideals aloft helps state-owned broadcasters steer a course between delivering government-interest and commercial-interest content. They help to define the meaning of universal access in the face of financial pressures and socio-economic divides. They empower people to see the big picture and to bring concerted action to bear on it. In sum, they help us reinvent “public service broadcasting” in a fashion appropriate to its contemporary possibilities. Roll on digitisation in Southern Africa - and the transformation of at least some state-owned broadcasters to become leaders in this process." ("Summing up", page 53-54) more

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Civic Education for Media Professionals: A Training Manual

Fackson Banda

Paris: UNESCO (2009), 87 pp.

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China in the African Mediascape

Fackson Banda

Rhodes Journalism Review, issue 29 (2009), pp. 52-53

"Chinese assistance to African media is not new. What is different now is that it is being administered in the post-Cold War era with a greater degree of openness." (Page 52)

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African Digital Media and the Public Sphere

Okoth Fred Mudhai, Wisdom J. Tettey, Fackson Banda (eds.)

New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xv, 260 pp.

"This book examines, from theoretical and empirical perspectives, the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. Contributors do so from optimist, pragmatist-realist, and pessimist stances through analyses of various forms of evide ... more

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How to Assess Your Media Landscape: A Toolkit Approach

Fackson Banda, Guy Berger, A. S. Panneerselvan, Lakshmi Nair, Mark Whitehouse

Brussels: Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2009), 35 pp.

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China in the African Mediascape: A Critical Injection

Fackson Banda

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 1, issue 3 (2009), pp. 343-361

"This study sets out to historically contextualize Chinese support to the African mediascape, arguing that contemporary Chinese media interventions in Africa must be seen as part of China's long history of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggle in its project of national and international identifi ... more

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African Media Development Initiative: Zambia. Research Findings and Conclusions

Fackson Banda

London: BBC World Service Trust (2006), 77 pp.

"The past five years have seen a mushrooming of media development organisations and media outlets. The period has also seen greater and better-coordinated civic activism in support of media development. There has generally been a diversity of media content, reflecting the plurality of media outlets. ... more

Model Curricula for Journalism Education: A Compendium of New Syllabi Key Guides

Model Curricula for Journalism Education: A Compendium of New Syllabi
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