"This article argues that constructive journalism scholarship should look to service journalism and its subfields, cultural journalism and lifestyle journalism, to understand the key characteristics of this newer type of journalism. Though constructive journalism is typically associated with the rep ... orting of political and social issues, it is also seen to challenge the traditional ways of writing about such hard news topics due to its positive and solution-oriented approach. In this respect, constructive journalism seems to reuse some of the approaches known from service journalism, especially in terms of audience address and an expanded social role for journalists. However, service journalism emerged in the increasingly commercialized and globalized media landscape of the post-World War II period, whereas constructive journalism has emerged in the digital media landscape of the 2010s. These historical contexts provide particular circumstances for both types of journalism." (Abstract) more

"One in a series of collections from the Nigerian Book Fair Trust containing the opening addresses, keynote speeches, and papers presented at the Nigeria International Book Fair, held annually since 2002, each fair focusing on a special topic or to ... pics. The proceedings of the 2003 book fair, which had the theme “Women Empowerment Through Publishing”, contain the keynote address delivered by the Indian feminist publisher Urvashi Butalia, together with papers on the challenges and obstacles faced by women writers and the experience of African women in publishing, including those by Unni Nielsen of the Norwegian Authors’ Association, Akoss Ofori-Mensah of Sub-Saharan African Publishers in Accra, and Nigerian publisher Bimpe Aboyade." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2397) more