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Exploring a Practice-Oriented Methodology for Measuring News Media Quality in Tanzania

Christoph Spurk, Abdallah Katunzi

African Journalism Studies (2025), 19 pp.

"Measuring the quality of news media is a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of enabling informed decision-making among citizens. Despite the lack of consensus on its definition and measurement, this paper introduces a practice-oriented methodology for evaluating news media quality across print, ra ... more

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Who Makes the News? Progress on a Plateau. Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) Special Edition: 30-year Findings on Change in Gender Equality In and Through the World News Media
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Sarah Macharia, Maximiliano Dueñas Guzmán, Rodrigo Molina et al.

Toronto: World Association of Christian Communication (WACC); Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) (2025), 123 pp.

"This report presents the findings of the seventh iteration of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) global snapshot, based on 30,049 news articles containing 58,563 people and 26,708 news personnel in 94 countries on the 7th global monitoring day, May 6, 2025. Key Findings: 1. Thirty years a ... go, the report of the first GMMP called for a shift in coverage beyond the male-dominated realms of political and economic power. Not only has the hierarchy of “hard news” in legacy media persisted across time, it has also crossed over into digital outlets. 2. Digitalization did not bring a radical break from the patriarchal norms of traditional journalism. Instead, it continues to reinforce and amplify a news hierarchy that privileges spheres and issues centred on power, namely, those dominated by men. The challenge is threefold. First, to dismantle the “hard news” bias, second, to integrate more intentionally spaces and issues of greater concern to women, and third, to enable visibility and voice to women present in traditionally male-dominated spaces. 3. After a period of slow but steady improvement, progress toward gender parity in the news has flatlined since around 2010, failing to reach 50% in any media type. Thirty years after Beijing, women are 26% of those seen, heard, or spoken about in legacy news (29% on news websites). The needle has shifted 9 points in legacy media since 1995, and 4 points in online news during the past 10 years. Minority groups are five points more likely to be present in digital news than in legacy media. The probability of minority women being featured in the news as the main protagonists or as interviewees is two in a hundred in traditional media (3% for men) and 4% on news websites (5% for men). 4. Women’s visibility in political and economic news beats has increased significantly – by 15 points each – over the past three decades. The severe underrepresentation noted in 1995 (7% in political news, 10% in economic news) has improved. Women’s presence in sports news is abysmal, at only 15% of news subjects and sources. 5. The proportion of women providing expert testimony has grown remarkably over the decades, showing the highest increase (+7 points) in digital news since 2015. In legacy media, the gender gap in authoritative roles as experts and spokespersons has closed at a slower pace than for persons providing testimony based on popular opinion and personal experience – ordinary roles that require no specialized knowledge. 6. Patterns of gender-biased portrayal endure despite decades of change in women’s roles in the real world. Women have remained about twice as likely as men to be portrayed as victims since 2010. Historically, women were most often portrayed as victims of accidents or poverty. This pattern was overturned in 2025, with “other crime” and “domestic violence” (by intimate partners and family members) becoming the top victim categories. Women depicted as survivors in legacy media were most likely to have survived “accidents, natural disasters, poverty, and disease” in previous GMMP studies. In 2025, they are most frequently portrayed as domestic violence survivors in equal proportion to accident/disaster survivors. The over-representation of women as homemakers/parents decreased from 81% in 2000 to 73% in 2025, indicating some progress, albeit a persistent journalistic bias toward defining women by domestic roles, despite women’s current unprecedented engagement in work outside the home. Underrepresentation in occupations and in positions of power has remained consistent. The tendency to describe women by their age and physical attributes has also persisted. They have been photographed more often than men (a 7–9-point difference) over the past two decades, with qualitative analysis continuing to show patterns of sexualised portrayal [...]" (Key findings, pages 2-3) more

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Thomas Hanitzsch, Wiebke Loosen, Annika Sehl (eds.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos (2025), 595 pp.

"Das Handbuch bietet einen Einblick in die Vielfalt der Forschung zu Journalismus in seinen gesellschaftlichen Bezügen. In den Blick genommen werden u. a. Akteure, Organisationen und Institutionen sowie Nachrichten, ihre Entstehung und Nutzung. Der Band spiegelt dabei die thematische, theoretische ... more

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Laboratorio de medios: Alertas mediáticas 2023

Lima: Observatorio de Medios; Calandria; Consejo Consultivo de Radio y Televisión (CONCORTV) (2024), 112 pp.

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African Media Barometer: Botswana 2023

Windhoek; Gabarone: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 63 pp.

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Laboratorio de medios: Alertas mediáticas 2022

Lima: Observatorio de Medios; Calandria; Consejo Consultivo de Radio y Televisión (CONCORTV) (2023), 77 pp.

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African Media Barometer: Uganda 2022

Windhoek; Kampala: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2023), 75 pp.

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Revealing Media Bias in News Articles: NLP Techniques for Automated Frame Analysis

Felix Hamborg

Cham: Springer (2023), xiii, 238 pp.

"This open access book presents an interdisciplinary approach to reveal biases in English news articles reporting on a given political event. The approach named person-oriented framing analysis identifies the coverage's different perspectives on the event by assessing how articles portray the person ... more

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Periodismo libre transformador en tiempo de crisis: Experiencias de periodismo desde la Universidad. Conversatorios sobre los cinco años del Observatorios Universitario de Medios (OUM)

Franklin Cornejo

Lima: Fundación Friedrich Ebert (FES) (2022), 31 pp.

"El presente documento sistematiza las conversaciones virtuales llevadas a cabo el 15, 22 y 29 de setiembre del año 2021, en las cuales reconocidos especialistas, investigadores y académicos nacionales e internacionales expresaron sus preocupaciones y reflexiones en torno al periodismo en Perú y ... more

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Success and Failure in News Media Performance: Comparative Analysis in the Media for Democracy Monitor 2021

Josef Trappel, Tales Tomaz (eds.)

Gothenburg: Nordicom; University of Gothenburg (2022), 360 pp.

"The Media for Democracy Monitor (MDM) assesses the performance of leading news media in mature democracies with regard to the three core dimensions of democracy: freedom, equality, and control. After monitoring 10 countries in 2011, the MDM project expanded to cover the leading news media of 18 dem ... more

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Defining and Measuring News Media Quality: Comparing the Content Perspective and the Audience Perspective

Philipp Bachmann, Mark Eisenegger, Diana Ingenhoff

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 27, issue 1 (2022), pp. 9-37

"High-quality news is important, not only for its own sake but also for its political implications. However, defining, operationalizing, and measuring news media quality is difficult, because evaluative criteria depend upon beliefs about the ideal society, which are inherently contested. This concep ... more

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Produktionswege von potenziell diskriminierenden journalistischen Themen: Systemische Elemente der Medienökosysteme

Andrew Robotham, Annik Dubied

Université de Neuchâtel (2022), v, 38 pp.

"Dieser Bericht vertieft die Ergebnisse einer Medienanalyse, bei der zu pädagogischen Zwecken (gute wie schlechte) Beispiele von Medienberichterstattung im Zusammenhang mit rassistischer Diskriminierung in Schweizer Nachrichtenmedien zusammengetragen wurden. […] Diese Studie stützt sich auf deta ... more

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African Media Barometer: Namibia 2022

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 83 pp.

"On the surface, Namibia’s stellar reputation as the beacon of media freedom remains intact, but the role of the Fourth Estate in speaking truth to power is gradually being eroded as state officials become increasingly intolerant of the media in Namibia. The perceptible decline in the media landsc ... more

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The State of Innovation and Media Viability in East Africa: From Indepth Media House Surveys
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Hesbon Hansen Owilla, Rose Kimani, Ann Hollifield et al.

Aga Khan University, Graduate School of Media and Communications; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 71 pp.

"The fact that about half of the news-producing media organizations categorise themselves as having insufficient newsroom resources as far as equipment, technology and training are concerned suggests that there is still need to look into equipping newsrooms technologically and continuing efforts to ... more

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The State of Journalism Reporting in Tanzania

Abdallah Katunzi, Christoph Spurk

Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam, School of Journalism and Mass Communication (2022), iv, 50 pp.

"The quality of journalistic reporting in Tanzania reveals a twofold pattern. On the one hand, there is a significant increase in quality in 2022 relative to the quality performance reported in 2019. In fact, the performance in many quality criteria for all media types has improved in terms of multi ... more

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State of the Newsroom in Tanzania: A Survey Report

Abdallah Katunzi, Brian Ssenabulya et al.

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 ... more

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Die SPIEGELStandards: Ergebnisse der SPIEGEL-Werkstatt

Hamburg: SPIEGEL-Verlag (2021), 74 pp.

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Información y confianza: Comunicación contra la desinformación

Adriana Amado Suárez, Maximiliano Bongiovanni

Buenos Aires: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS); infociudadana (2021), 79 pp.

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How Kenya’s Media Retooled Peer Review to Address Issues of Trust and Quality in News

Zablon Mark Oloo

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 24 pp.

"Self regulation through peer review is a system whereby journalists hold each other accountable for the quality and accuracy of their content. If the Kenyan experience is anything to go by, this measure can provide an additional layer of scrutiny – additional to a state ombudsman or media houses� ... more

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Monitoring of Media Ethics in Ghana: Report on Findings Covering June 2020 - May 2021

Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2021), 20 pp.

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Who Makes the News? Progress on a Plateau. Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) Special Edition: 30-year Findings on Change in Gender Equality In and Through the World News Media
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The State of Innovation and Media Viability in East Africa: From Indepth Media House Surveys
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