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State of the Newsroom in Tanzania: A Survey Report
African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2022), iv, 27 pp.
"This report offers an upstream view of the newsroom in the country. It looks at the newsroom environment and operations. Specifically, it looks at the newsroom staffing, revenue sources, specialisations, in-house training, and quality assurance, as well as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on new
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A Portrait of Tanzanian Journalists: A Survey Report
Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2022), iv, 27 pp.
"This study profiles Tanzanian journalists at a time when the role of the media occupies the centre stage. Specifically, it seeks to answer this critical question who are Tanzanian journalists? In terms of socio-demographics, work environment, specialisation, editorial autonomy, professional attitud
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Promoting Peace: The Role of Radio Journalism in Conflict Prevention
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 19, issue 1 (2021), pp. 175-196
"This article examines the role of radios in conflict by exploring the tenets of peace journalism in the United Nations sponsored Radio Okapi (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Radio Ndeke Luka (Central African Republic) run by the Swiss Fondation Hirondelle. It is a qualitative research that interv
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Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective
New York; London: Routledge (2021), xix, 299 pp.
"The book brings together scholars from Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, reporting findings based on data collected from democratic, transitional, and non-democratic contexts to produce thematic chapters that address how journalistic cultures vary around the globe,
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Analyzing Journalist Perceptions of Democracy and State Corruption: The Case of Iraq
Arab Media & Society, issue 29 (2020), pp. 1-22
"The paper argues that journalists' perceptions of their role in challenging corruption and developing democracy will give us some insight into Iraq's "crisis of democracy". The theory of democratic participation focuses on the centrality of media and communication institutions, founded on the princ
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Rationalizing the Gap: How Journalists in a Nondemocratic Regime Make Sense of Their Professional Work
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 4781-4802
"This article investigates how news professionals in a nondemocratic regime rationalize their institutional roles and daily reporting practices, negotiate boundaries of their work, and make sense of their professional activities. This study used qualitative interviewing to explore personal experienc
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Entre periodistas
Bogotá: Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano (2020), 128 pp.
"En las páginas de este libro encontrarán las entrevistas hechas por periodistas en formación del Politécnico Grancolombiano, que buscaron a periodistas profesionales para preguntarles sobre su vida laboral. Encontrarán anécdotas, conceptos personales de los personajes entrevistados, consejos
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Soft Power, Hard News: How Journalists at State-Funded Transnational Media Legitimize Their Work
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 25, issue 4 (2020), pp. 607-631
"How do journalists working for different state-funded international news organizations legitimize their relationship to the governments which support them? In what circumstances might such journalists resist the diplomatic strategies of their funding states? We address these questions through a com
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Media Accountability and Journalists: To Whom Do Spanish Professionals Feel Responsible?
Journalism Practice, volume 14, issue 7 (2020), pp. 812-829
"This paper analyses to whom Spanish journalists feel responsible. To achieve this objective, we sent out a survey to Spanish journalists to ascertain their opinion on this question. The journalists’ point of view was then compared with that of the general public though six focus groups consisting
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Gazing Past the Glass Ceiling: Indian and South African Female Journalists’ Perceptions of Their Role and Power in the Newsroom
Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 57-74
"This article analyses female journalists’ perceptions of their own role, their power in the newsroom, their influence over the news agenda and the challenges they face on a daily basis in two large media-saturated countries and emerging democracies, India and South Africa. India and South Africa
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Polish Media System in a Comparative Perspective: Media in Politics, Politics in Media
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2019), 286 pp.
"The main subject of this work is the dynamically evolving Polish media system, which is under the influence of institutions and external stakeholders. Thanks to this, it is easier to understand that the "crossroads" is not only a problem of the Polish media system, but a global one. For this reason
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Presse francophone en Afrique de l’Ouest: Expériences et réflexions de pionniers
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 50 pp.
Journalismus in Burundi: Erfahrungswelten in Konflikt und Transformation
Wiesbaden: Springer (2019), xvii, 469 pp.
"Das Buch befasst sich mit der Rolle von Medien in einem politischen Ausnahmezustand. Bettina Haasen hat in Burundi Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu ihrem beruflichen Rollenselbstverständnis befragt und diese Aussagen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer sozialen Herkunft und den Zielen der internation
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The Interaction of Journalism and Public Relations in Russia: A Self-Perception
Global Media and Communication, volume 15, issue 1 (2019), pp. 3-25
"There is an increasing amount written on the decline of professional journalism around the world. One of the factors that are used to illustrate the decline of journalism is the interaction and collaboration between journalists and public relations (PR) practitioners in the production of mass media
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Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures Around the Globe
Deep Insights
New York: Columbia University Press (2019), xi, 434 pp.
"How do journalists around the world view their own function and role in society? Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 25,000 journalists in 66 countries between 2012 and 2015, Worlds of Journalism examines the different ways journalists conceive of their responsibilities
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État des lieux de la presse aux Congos
Congo-Brazzaville; Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 155 pp.
"Joseph Okania fait ici l'autopsie, voire une intervention chirurgicale, de ce mal récurrent qu'est l'amateurisme de nos journalistes, lequel, bien que décrié par tous, gangrène le corps de la presse congolaise, rives droite et gauche confondues. Après une immersion complète et une laborieuse
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State of the Newsroom 2017: Fakers and Makers
Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Journalism (2018), iv, 60 pp.
"The fourth annual report looks at jobs in the newsroom, fake news and fact-checking journalism, and highlights the problem of threats to media freedom in South Africa. In a survey conducted across a range of newsrooms both big and small, it found that young, black women journalists are more likely
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Journalistic Performance in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Professional Roles in News Content
Journalism, volume 18, issue 9 (2017), pp. 1087-1106
"Comparative research across the world has shown that nation-level variables are strong predictors of professional roles in journalism. There is, however, still insufficient comparative research about three key issues: cross-national comparison of journalistic role performance, exploration of how -
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Journalists in Brazil
Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 6 pp.
"With regards to professional role orientations, Brazilian journalists found it most important to report things as they are, to promote tolerance and cultural diversity, to be a detached observer, to let people express their views, and to provide analysis of current affairs (see Table 1). These resu
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