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Mobile Community Reporting: A Grassroots Perspective on Journalism

Olivier Nyirubugara

Leiden: Sidestone Press (2014), 144 pp.

"In this book, the author presents what he calls the 'Mobile Community Reporting' approach based on a six-year training experiment [of the Voices of Africa Media Foundation] in which he was involved as trainer and coach in eight African countries. The main argument underlying the MCR approach is the ... more

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Media Content in the Central African Crisis: An Overview and Solutions for Further Peace-Building and Governance Interventions

Karim Bernard-Dende

Internews Network (2014), 70 pp.

"News represents 23% of the total schedule on the six radio stations monitored [...] The situation of conflict had a direct influence on the subjects treated in news and information content with a focus 1) on the conflict (more than one third of news and information content) but not on grassroots co ... more

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Foreign Correspondents Report from Africa: Pulitzer Prize Winning Articles and Pictures

Heinz-Dietrich Fischer

Wien; Münster: Lit (2014), 189 pp.

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Theatre for Peace: CPS Work in Cameroon, DR Congo, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Uganda

Kasereka Lusenge Joshua, Claus Schrowange, Charlie Haffner, Jean Blaise Kenmogne, Silvia Stroh, Jeanne Medom, Anne Dirnstorfer

Bafoussam; Berlin: Brot für die Welt;Civil Peace Service (CPS) (2014), 143 pp.

"This manual is an opportunity for the Civil Peace Service (CPS) networks to share the experiences of some of the people and organisations who use theatre as a tool for communication, change and peace. You will find theoretical bases, concrete examples related to the contents and some techniques and ... more

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Le rôle des médias communautaires dans la stabilisation des régions de post–crise en Afrique. Étude de cas: La spécificité des radios de proximité en Côte d’Ivoire

Magali Siaudeau

London: Internews Europe;Fondation Roi Baudouin (2014), 40 pp.

"Transformer des radios existantes en radios «communautaire» n’est pas un modèle envisageable à large échelle. Toutefois, le lien créé avec les communautés à travers les groupes d’écoute dans l’ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire a con tribué au processus de rapprochement social entre les ... more

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The Variety of Platforms and Practices in African Journalism

Herman Wasserman (ed.)

African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 1-103

"Despite the generalizations and stereotypes that are often used to describe Africa in popular (and journalistic) discourses, the continent's diversity escapes easy categorization or glib narratives of either the 'Hopeless Continent' or 'Africa Rising' variety - the two poles between which the Econo ... more

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Performing Patriotic Citizenship: Zimbabwean Diaspora and Their Online Newspaper Reading Practices

Tendai Chari

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 91-110

"This article focuses on the psycho-social dimension of the diaspora through an examination of the online news consumption practices of the Zimbabwean diaspora. The objective is to contribute on theoretical debates about the way in which the diaspora imagine their citizenship in the digital age. Dat ... more

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A Clash Between Journalistic and Capitalist Values? How Advertisers Meddle in Journalists’ Decisions at the Nation Media Group in Kenya

Jacinta Mwende Maweu

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 27-42

"Grounded in the critical political economy of the media tradition, it is argued in the article that, in the highly commercialized media environment in Kenya today, market forces pose the greatest threat to media freedom and responsibility. Through in-depth qualitative interviews of twenty journalis ... more

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Assessing Impact, Evaluating Adaptability: A Decade of Radio La Benevolencija in Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC

Lauren Kogen

Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS);Altai Consulting (2014), 38 pp.

"RLB’s interventions in Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC have achieved significant knowledge, attitude, and behavior changes. Among the most notable of these: With respect to gains in knowledge, members of RLB’s audience have gained better understandings of the cycle of violence and methods used by ... more

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Africa's Media Boom: The Role of International Aid
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Mary Myers

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 35 pp.

"Since the early 1990s, media outlets in Sub-Saharan Africa have proliferated extraordinarily, freeing Africa's press and liberating the airwaves from monopoly by the state. This paper summarises these developments and analyses in how far foreign donors were catalysts of this development. Myers desc ... more

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Third-party complaints in the system of press regulation: Inviting the reader to take part in journalistic accountability and securing press freedom

Julie Reid

African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 2 (2014), pp. 58-74

"The system of self-regulation for the press was subject to contentious debates in South Africa from 2010 to 2012. The Press Council of South Africa and the accountability mechanism for the press (self-regulation) underwent two separate processes of review during this period, subsequently altering t ... more

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Puppets for Social and Political Change in South Africa

Marie Kruger

International Journal of Social Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, volume 9, issue 3 (2014), pp. 63-73

"This paper explores the characteristics of the puppet which can be utilized to generate critical thinking and informed choices in a troubled society with reference to projects of historical and contemporary importance. As an animated performance object the puppet has an imagined life which enables ... more

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Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries

Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi (ed.)

Lanham: Lexington Books (2014), xvi, 240 pp.

"This publication analyzes the ways in which health services, public health administration, and healthcare policies are managed in developing countries and how intercultural, intergroup, and mass communication practices are weakening those efforts. If developing countries are to reach their developm ... more

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Potential Uses of Community Radio in Political Awareness: A Proposal for Nigeria

Michael Aondo-verr Kombol

New Media and Mass Communication, volume 24 (2014), pp. 12-24

"This paper examines the potential uses of community radio in political awareness, especially in Nigeria where community radio is not yet in existence. The existence of community radio in other parts of Africa but not Nigeria leaves a void because there may be a lot of uses to which community radio ... more

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Comparing the United Kingdom's Guardian Newspaper with its Co-Owned South African Mail & Guardian Online: Towards Productive Global North–South Collaborations in the Digital World Information Order

Bella Mody

African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 1 (2014), pp. 74-91

"This article highlights how one online news organisation in the global south, with no more than three staff and no foreign correspondents, strategically used multiple wire service feeds to successfully cover a significant story more comprehensively than its better-endowed co-owner. It compares the ... more

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Communication Theories in a Multicultural World

Clifford Christians, Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), xiii, 325 pp.

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Assessing the Impact of TMF on the Tanzanian Media: A Practical Approach

Sanne van den Berg

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 11 pp.

"The Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) supports individual journalists and media institutions to produce quality public interest and investigative journalism content that better informs the public, contributes to debate and thereby increases public demand for greater accountability in Tanzania. TMF has used ... more

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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies

Ineke Buskens, Anne Webb (eds.)

London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.

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Developing Media Diversity: Baseline Study of State Support for Independent Print Media in West Africa, South America and Scandinavia

Julia Plessing

Johannesburg: Association of Independent Publishers (AIP);Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2014), 37 pp.

"The practicability and effectiveness of state support schemes would have to be assessed on the basis of the economic and sociopolitical context in which the different types of support and subsidies are implemented. The expansive press subsidy schemes of Northern Europe cannot be directly compared t ... more

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Journalist in Africa: A high-risk profession under threat

Marie-Soleil Frère

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 2 (2014), pp. 181-198

"Every year, several international organizations monitoring press freedom worldwide issue reports in which they underline the occupational hazards faced by journalists while reporting. Some African countries, such as Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia or Equatorial Guinea, have been regularly pinpointed at the ... more

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