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Decolonisation: The media challenge
International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) (2024), 28 pp.
Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 127 pp.
"Based on a 5-year study, involving over 150 in-depth interviews, this book examines the political, economic and social forces that sustain and influence humanitarian journalists. The authors argue that – by amplifying marginalised voices and providing critical, in-depth explanations of neglected
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Communicating Development Through US News: Toward Decolonizing “News About Development”
Journalism Studies, volume 24, issue 6 (2022), pp. 738-762
"Drawing on a content analysis of 263 news articles on US development assistance from 2011 to 2020 across three US media outlets, the study investigates the media's performance in covering and representing US development assistance to the public. The analysis reveals that the media focus their cover
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Panser les solidarités internationales: (re)penser la communication solidaire
Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 278 pp.
Meinungsmonitor Entwicklungspolitik 2021: Medieninhalte, Informationen, Appelle und ihre Wirkung auf die öffentliche Meinung
Bonn: Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval) (2021), xxii, 116 pp.
"Die Medieninhaltsanalysen in Kapitel 2 zeigen, dass Entwicklungspolitik absolut und anteilig betrachtet in den Medien nur eine geringe Rolle spielt. Während der ersten Monate der Corona-Pandemie Anfang 2020 ging die Aufmerksamkeit, die TV-Nachrichten und Beiträge in Printmedien auf das Themenfeld
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How to Write About Africa in 8 Steps: An Ethical Storytelling Handbook
Key Guidance
Africa No Filter (2021), 31 pp.
"Storytelling is the most powerful way for donor and non-governmental organisations to convey their work because stories allow audiences to connect on both intellectual and emotional levels. However, much of the storytelling about development work in Africa is unethical and perpetuates harmful and s
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Neutral Press, Negative Opinions: Development Cooperation and the Dutch Media
Development in Practice, volume 30, issue 6 (2020), pp. 825-836
"Recent high-profile scandals raise concerns about how development cooperation is represented. This article examines how the subject gets in the media, examining the tone of voice and framing in newspaper articles and NGO advertisements in the Netherlands. It reveals a remarkable difference between
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La pauvreté dans le monde & les enjeux de développement: La consommation des médias en France
Development Engagement LAB (2020), 93 slides
"C’est par le biais des actualités portant sur les questions migratoires et les conflits armés que les Français sont le plus à même de s’informer à propos de la pauvreté dans le monde. Le public français préfère être informé sur la pauvreté dans le monde à l’occasion des actualit
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Democratic Openings and Country Visibility: Media Attention and the Allocation of US Democracy Aid, 1975-2010
Foreign Policy Analysis, volume 16, issue 3 (2020), pp. 373-396
"Late in the twentieth century, the United States embraced democracy promotion as a foreign policy priority, a central component of which involved allocating democracy aid to governments, political parties, and nongovernmental organizations around the world to support and encourage democratization.
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African Narratives: A Gloomy Picture, with Some Emerging Positive Trends. Literature Review of Academic Writing on African Narratives
Africa No Filter (2020), 12 pp.
"In 2018 the fictional country Wakanda from the film Black Panther was the fourth most mentioned African country on Twitter, after Egypt, South Africa and Kenya. The fact that Africa’s 4th most talked about country doesn’t exist tells us two things: pop culture is a powerful tool for narrative w
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Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2019), x, 288 pp.
"The chapters in this collection offer original interrogations of the representation of humanitarian crisis and catastrophe, and the refraction of humanitarian intervention and action, from the mid-twentieth century to the present, across a diverse range of media forms: traditional and contemporary
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Meinungsmonitor Entwicklungspolitik 2019: Medien, Mediennutzung und Berichterstattung zu weltweiter Armut
Bonn: Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval) (2019), xv, 102 pp.
"In dieser Studie wird untersucht, welche Medien die Bevölkerung nutzt, inwieweit sie diesen und den Sendern von entwicklungspolitischen Informationen vertraut (z. B. Bundesregierung oder Entwicklungsorganisationen) und in welchem Maß sie über die Medien in Kontakt mit dem für die Entwicklungspo
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Bad news: Seeing communication for and about development through an exposé of Swedish aid to Zambia
Journal of International Communication, volume 25, issue 2 (2019), pp. 254-274
"Communication for and about development are significant components of international development cooperation, interlinked in practice though separated in research. This article examines their interaction in donor-driven aid through the lens of journalism. How is bilateral development cooperation com
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NGOs as News Organizations
Oxford University Press (2019)
"Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, the predecessors of NGOs—pressure groups—tried to advance their cause by cultivating close relations with the mainstream press, and/or publishing their own periodicals. But from the late 20th century onward, many NGOs started routinely producing their
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Hierarchies of Editorial Power in International NGOs
Journalism Studies, volume 20, issue 12 (2019), pp. 1764-1781
"International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) have long been recognised as major contributors to the construction of Africa's image in the West through their impact stories, fundraising and advocacy campaigns. Yet although there has been considerable academic inquiry into these messages, res
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The State of Humanitarian Journalism
Humanitarian-journalism.net;University of East Anglia (2018), 36 pp.
"Very few international news organisations routinely cover humanitarian affairs. Only 12 news outlets reported on all four of the humanitarian events we analysed in 2016. Because of the high costs of producing regular, original journalism on humanitarian issues, commercial news organisations do not
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The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa: Whose News?
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 266 pp.
"Closely examining the relationship between foreign correspondents of international news media and humanitarian organisations, Lena von Naso shows how the aid and media sectors cooperate in Africa in a unique way. Based on more than 70 interviews with foreign correspondents and aid workers operating
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Setting the Agenda on Development: A Content Analysis of How Senegalese Newspapers Report on Local and Foreign Aid
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 61-74
"The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid in the economies of sub-Saharan Africa often overlooks how the local journalists of a region report on aid. This study is a quantitative content analysis assessing how newspapers in Senegal write about different forms of aid received within the country
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Developing News: Global Journalism and the Coverage of "Third World" Development
London; New York: Routledge (2017), vii, 178 pp.
Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xiii, 165 pp.
"Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering. The book highlights what NGOs seek to achi
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