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Writing and Rewriting the Reich: Women Journalists in the Nazi and Post-War Press

Deborah Barton

Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press (2023), xvi, 360 pp.

"This book tells the complex story of women journalists as both outsiders and insiders in the German press of the National Socialist and post-war years. From 1933 onward, Nazi press authorities valued female journalists as a means to influence the public through charm and subtlety rather than intimi ... more

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Indian Media Giants: Unveiling the Business Dynamics of Print Legacies

Surbhi Dahiya

New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2022), lxv, 1040 pp.

"Indian Media Giants' is an analytical chronicle of six Indian mega media conglomerates' individual odyssey from their humble, incipient beginnings in the pre-independence era to their transformation into powerful business empires in the digitised world. The book traces Indian Media metamorphosis, t ... he birth, phase-wise contours of growth and development, travails and trajectories, organizational structures, editorial policies and business dynamics of print majors in India, namely, The Times Group, The Hindu Group, The Hindustan Times Limited, The Indian Express Group, Dainik Jagran Limited and DB Corp Limited. It unravels their understanding of the values of co-dependence, collaboration, and competition with their contemporaries. It is an untold story of how these organizations leapt over the perimeters of conventional greatness to achieve unmeasured success that spans the globe. The book analyses how innovations have been brought in the management policies of these print businesses, with respect to production, distribution, consumption, while accrediting the visionary leadership that drives each organisation forward in its endeavours. What the case studies also details, is the wide extent of strategic intent enunciation; the role of product lines, development and diversification into radio, TV, digital and other segments; geographical spread, expansion, regional penetration and international footprint; the role of technological advancements in throwing up unimaginably new business opportunities; strategic alliances, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and takeovers; manpower management policies; CSR activities and financial performance of these media giants. The theoretical implications of the growth of media organisations in terms of the nature of mass media and its products are also underlined. The book focuses on the theoretical framework of media management and pays attention on the changing media management practices from one era to another, gradually orienting and re-orienting the strategic positioning of respective media giants to the pulse of the media market and the opportunities under various regulatory regimes. It is replete with the meticulous analysis of the editorial values and business dynamics upon which their legacies are founded, changing business models adopted by the media moguls, the ripples they have created in the media world and how they are constantly being modified to suit the tastes of the modernising market. With this, and more, Indian Media Giants is a holistic compendium that offers multiple perspectives on how print media organizations in India have grown from strength to strength and have become platform agnostic. The book also details the changing media landscape in India and also underlines the efforts of media giants in retaining print while embracing the digital." (Publisher description) more

História e mídia: Leituras do Brasil

Luis Carlos dos Passos Martins, Mônica Karawejczyk (eds.)

Porto Alegre: Editora Fi (2021), 306 pp.

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Writing the New Nation in a West African Borderland: Ablode Safui (the Key to Freedom)

Holiday Kamedja

Kate Skinner (transl.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), cv, 243 pp.

"This book rethinks the history of decolonisation and new nationhood in the Ghana-Togo borderlands, and speaks to an increasingly urgent debate on the production of knowledge about Africa. It does this through the close reading, translation and analysis of a unique primary source - a newspaper entit ... more

Jornais centenários do Brasil

Hérica Lene

Covilhã (PO): Universidade da Beira Interior (2019), 308 pp.

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Presencia: Una escuela de ética y buen periodismo

Juan Carlos Salazar del Barrio (coord.)

La Paz: Plural Editores;Fundación para el Periodismo (2019), 319 pp.

"La historia del diario católico Presencia está íntimamente ligada a la historia de Bolivia, en una época de grandes turbulencias políticas. Nació en un tiempo nuevo, en pleno parto de la Revolución Nacional, y fue testigo de la lucha de los bolivianos por la conquista de la democracia de las ... more

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Lectores, editores y cultura impresa en Colombia, siglos XVI-XXI

Diana Paola Guzmán Méndez, Paula Andrea Marín Colorado, Juan David Murillo Sandoval, Miguel Ángel Pineda Cupa (eds.)

Bogotá: Editorial Utadeo;Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2018), 496 pp.

"Las contribuciones reunidas en este volumen buscan dar un paso en el esfuerzo por exami-nar las condiciones y problemas que han rodeado y rodean la producción, circulación y usos del libro en un país poco conocedor de su historia libresca y editorial. Los textos reconstruyen diversos momentos en ... more

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Private Print Media, the State and Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe

Sylvester Dombo

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xvii, 277 pp.

"This book examines the role played by two popular private newspapers in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, one case from colonial Rhodesia and the other from the post-colonial era. It argues that, operating under oppressive political regimes and in the dearth of credible opposition political p ... more

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Western Missionaries and Origins of the Modern Chinese Press

Yuntao Zhang

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 67-78

"For over a thousand years, Chinese journalism was dominated by the official gazette called DiBao (Peking Gazette). This organ of the imperial state comprised edicts, news of government appointments and court affairs, and served a small privileged readership. It was not until 1815 that what could be ... more

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When the Subaltern Speaks: Re-Examining Indigenous-Language Media as Alternative Public Sphere During Colonial South Africa

Gilbert Motsaathebe

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 2 (2018), pp. 169-183

"This article attempts to examine the efficacy of indigenous-language newspapers published in South Africa during the colonial era. In doing so, the article is particularly interested to see how the success achieved by those publications could be replicated to boost post-apartheid indigenous-languag ... more

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Médias pionniers au Congo: "Se Kukianga" (1891) et "Minsamu Miayenge" (1892)

Jean-Chrétien Ekambo Duasenge

Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 200 pp.

"La méticulosité et la pugnacité de l'auteur l'ont poussé à croiser les références documentaires. Mais ce n'est pas seulement un récit de l'aventure médiatique de deux magazines et de deux missions protestantes européennes dans le Congo de la fi n du XIXe siècle. On ne peut qu'admirer la ... more

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Justicia profana: El jurado de imprenta en el Perú

Carlos Augusto Ramos Núñez

Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2018), 305 pp.

"La libertad de expresión debe convivir con el respeto al derecho ajeno. Pero, ¿quién determina dónde se ubica exactamente ese límite? En una sociedad democrática como la nuestra que está regida por un Estado de derecho, es la ley la que regula esa dinámica. Aunque bien sabemos que las leyes ... more

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African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century

Derek R. Peterson, Emma Hunter, Stephanie Newell (eds.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2017), x, 447 pp.

"The first of four thematic sections, “African Newspaper Networks,” considers the work that newspaper editors did to relate events within their locality to happenings in far-off places. This work of correlation and juxtaposition made it possible for distant people to see themselves as fellow tra ... more

Nacionalismo y colonaje: Su expresión histórica en la prensa de Bolivia

Carlos Montenegro

La Paz: Biblioteca del Bicentenario de Bolivia, 4th ed. (2016), 248 pp.

"En 1943, con 40 años a cuestas, Carlos Montenegro escribió un ensayo que fue publicado con el sugestivo título de Nacionalismo y coloniaje: Su expresión histórica en la prensa de Bolivia, una obra fundamental para la configuración del discurso del nacionalismo revolucionario que se forjó des ... more

Afrikanisch-Europäische Medienbeziehungen

Medien & Zeit, volume 31, issue 2 (2016), pp. 2-57

"In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country“ (Wainaina, 2012) – was der kenianische Autor und Gründer des Literaturmagazins Kwani Binyavanga Wainaina in seiner satirischen Gebrauchsanweisung How to Write about Africa SchriftstellerInnen empfiehlt, wird in Medienbeiträgen zu Afrika be ... more

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A History of the Press in Nigeria from 1859-2015 and the Origins of the Nigerian Broadcasting and Film Industry

Ifedayo Daramola

Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press (2015), viii, 270 pp.

"This study contends that democracy and political change is deeply rooted in the mass media’s ability to become a major agent of political socialization that was capable of mobilizing local populations into changing longstanding African attitudes about politics and election outcome behaviors." (Pu ... more

A imprensa e o império colonial em São Tomé e Príncipe (1857-1974)

Isadora Fonseca de Ataide

Comunicação Pública, volume 9, issue 16 (2014), 23 pp.

"Analisar a trajectória e o desempenho da imprensa em São Tomé e Príncipe ao longo docolonialismo é o objectivo deste artigo. Observam-se os papéis desempenhados pelo jornalismo no contexto sociopolítico do arquipélago no período colonial, entre 1857 e 1974. Para se compreender o percurso d ... more

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100 años de periodismo en el Perú. Tomo I: 1900-1948

María Mendoza Michilot

Lima: Universidad de Lima, Fondo Editorial (2013), 497 pp.