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Journalists in Kenya
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 8 pp.
"It is fairly informative how journalists view their roles in the Kenyan society. Kenyan journalists found it most important to report things the way they are, to educate the audience and to promote tolerance and diversity. The relevance of these roles was fairly undisputed among the interviewed jou
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Jordanian Journalists’ Awareness of the Concepts and Standards of Journalistic Quality Within Jordanian Media Institutions
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 8, issue 1 (2015), pp. 55-78
"This study aims to identify Jordanian journalists’ awareness of the basic concepts of journalistic professionalism by addressing four sets of media quality standards, as abstracted from several studies. Notable among those sets are journalistic content standards, the performance quality standards
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Professional Roles in News Content
Journalism Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (2015), pp. 596-614
"Over the past 50 years, a large body of research on professional roles has analyzed the different functions that journalism should fulfill in society. However, an examination of how these professional roles materialize in journalistic output remains mostly absent. This is especially critical becaus
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Journalism in Change: Journalistic Culture in Poland, Russia and Sweden
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2015), 333 pp.
"How is professionalization influenced by the constant growth of a network society and social media? How are commercialization and political influences in the media relating to each other? These are some of the issues discussed in this study. It is based on the research project Journalism in Change
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Culture as Constitutive: An Exploration of Audience and Journalist Perceptions of Journalism in Samoa
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 8, issue 1 (2015), pp. 37-54
"Much research implicitly suggests that journalism values arise from culturally removed organizational structures or shared occupational training and few studies examine the perspective of journalism from both audiences and journalists. These omissions are important given the essentiality of mutuall
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Combining Detached Watchdog Journalism with Development Ideals: An Exploration of Fijian Journalism Culture
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 6 (2015), pp. 557-576
"Development journalism has been a key focus of discussion among journalism scholars for around half a decade, but most of the attention has been firmly on African and Asian countries. This article examines the situation on the little-researched island nation of Fiji, which has experienced considera
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Etre journaliste dans les Grands Lacs: Une identité en (re)construction
In: Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)
Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 207-223
"Marie-Soleil Frère propose une analyse de l'identité professionnelle des journalistes en RDC, au Burundi et au Rwanda. Partant d'une perspective historique, elle montre comment la profession a évolué dans les trois pays, de la période du monopole étatique à celle du pluralisme médiatique et
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News Media Landscape in a Fragile State: Professional Ethics Perceptions in a Post-Ba'athist Iraq
Mass Communication & Society, volume 18, issue 4 (2015), pp. 471-497
"During the years of Ba'athist dictator Saddam Hussein, media personnel were under tight control and tortured or executed when they strayed from the government line. In the decade following the fall of the Ba'athist regime, thousands of Iraqi journalists were trained in liberal democratic profession
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Review: Journalistic Ethics and Practices in Conflict Societies
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2015), 74 pp.
"This paper provides a critical review of literature on journalism in conflict societies (‘conflict journalism’), by investigating principal theories, concepts and arguments, as well as empirical research findings concerning journalism and its role in democratisation processes and conflicts [...
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Reconnoitering the role of (citizen) journalism ethics in the emerging networked public sphere
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 4-22
"This study surveys the ethical beliefs of citizen journalists in several sub-Saharan African countries. The research showed that they are driven by a sense of social responsibility and a wish to inform their readers and the general public. Citizen journalists show a clear anti-authoritarian strain
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Digitale Illusio: Online-Journalisten in Argentinien, China, Deutschland und den USA
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2014), 285 pp.
"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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"While development journalism was mainly a top-down form of communication (authoritative) during the socialistic era, in the liberal era the development-oriented journalists draw on both the Social Responsibility and Libertarian Theories of the media. The ‘state–public service’ broadcasters re
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Journalism in a Complicated Place: The Role of Community Journalism in South Africa
Community Journalism, volume 2, issue 1 (2013), pp. 49-67
"In South Africa, a fledgling democratic republic is making concerted efforts to foster media that will help to overcome a history of oppression based on difference. A qualitative analysis of interviews with 62 respondents found that the community journalists see themselves as community educators wh
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Bridging the Cultural Gaps in Journalism Training and Education in Asia
Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), 186 pp.
"Governments in parts of Asia and media scholars have alluded to a form of journalism that should reflect ‘Asian cultural values’ rather than defer to media practices and media cultures of the West. These are commonly attributed to a cultural preference for consensus rather than confrontation, o
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Mind the Gap: Between Journalistic Role Conception and Role Enactment
Journalism Practice, volume 7, issue 5 (2013), pp. 539-554
"The study of journalistic role conceptions rests on the assumption that these conceptions shape the news stories that journalists create. However, limited empirical evidence exists to support this assumed linear relationship between role conception and role enactment. This exploratory study compare
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Outside In: The Practices and Perceptions of Iranian Diaspora Journalists
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication’s Iran Media Program (2013), 31 pp.
"Our findings are based on responses to an online questionnaire completed by 69 Iranian journalists living and working outside Iran. A majority of respondents surveyed left Iran after 2005 and work as journalists for online media outlets [...] Our research indicates that Iranian journalists living a
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Pakistan's Media Landscape: The Effects of Liberalization
Berlin: Vistas; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2013), 196 pp.
"Obwohl die Medienmärkte in Pakistan nach der Liberalisierung 2002 einen regelrechten Boom erlebten, haben Medienschaffende bis heute mit zahlreichen Herausforderungen zu kämpfen. Die neue Meinungsfreiheit traf viele Medienschaffende unvorbereitet - Selbstzensur ersetzte häufig die vorherige staa
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Zwischen Information und Mission. Journalisten in Afghanistan: Berufliche Einstellungen und Leistungen
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 3, issue 2 (2013), 18 pp.
"Die Ermittlung der beruflichen Einstellungen geschah mittels einer vollstandardisierten Befragung, an der 195 Journalisten in Afghanistan teilnahmen. Eine Inhaltsanalyse in den drei wichtigsten afghanischen Zeitungen erbrachte eine Zusammenstellung der Leistungen von Journalisten. Der wichtigste Be
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