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Quid Pro Quo: How Donor-Funded Journalism Redefines Job Descriptions

Mia Malan

African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 121-129

"Donor-funded journalism is a complex sphere, frequently characterised by balancing acts between the priorities of two vastly different environments. The health desk of one of South Africa’s legacy media outlets, the Mail & Guardian, owes its existence to philanthropy. Launched in 2013, the Bhekis ... more

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Questioning the Role of Foreign Aid in Media System Research

Suzanne Temwa Gondwe Harris

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa

Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 401-412

"While the internal dynamics or the role of the state has had a significant bearing on how media systems evolve and change, both internal and external factors have contributed to the type of media that exists in Malawi today. Although Hallin and Mancini did not include at length the role of external ... more

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Reporting on Zimbabwe’s 2018 Elections: A Post-Election Analysis

Media Monitors;International Media Support (IMS) (2018), 40 pp.

"During the 2018 electoral period in Zimbabwe, Media Monitors monitored mainstream media to assess the nature of election coverage with a focus on three issues: Fair and balanced coverage of political players, the media’s role in informing the public on electoral processes, and professional and et ... more

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Can Machine Learning Help Us Measure the Trustworthiness of News?

Samhir Vasdev

Washington, DC: IREX (2018), 34 pp.

"IREX partnered with Lore.Ai to test whether machine learning software can automatically detect news articles that contains journalists’ own opinions. This matters because impartial, fact-based news is a powerful indicator for the quality of media and the vibrancy of an information ecosystem. A te ... more

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Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa

Michael Wolf Thomas, Alessandro Jedlowski, Aboneh Ashagrie (eds.)

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2018), xx, 295 pp.

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"Hispano-Lusophone" Community Media: Identity, Cultural Politics and Difference

Ana Stela Cunha, Miguel de Barros, Rosana Martins (eds.)

Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2018), 216 pp.

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Financial Inclusion Youth Toolkit

Cape Town: Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2018), 121 pp.

"Between August 2017 and July 2018, CRF implemented the Kilimo Mtaji project (“agriculture makes sense” in Swahili) in Tanzania and DRC. The aim of the project was to seize the power of youth-produced radio shows and outreach events in order to share key messages that raise awareness around fina ... more

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Mapping Digital Rights and Online Freedom of Expression in East, West and Southern Africa

Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (2018), 100 pp.

"This report maps the current landscape in respect of digital rights and online freedom of expression in East, West and Southern Africa. It looks at the trends regarding law and policy developments, as well as recent litigation, within these regions. The report focuses on 18 countries – 6 per regi ... more

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The Future of Radio in South Africa: Innovations and Trends
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Sarah Beham

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2018), 43 pp.

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Quality of News Content in Two Radio Stations in Addis Ababa: Case Study of Abay FM 102.9 and Bisrat FM 101.1

Berhanu Tessema

Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University, Master Thesis (2018), vii, 57 pp.

"My research focuses on two FM radio stations in Ethiopian capital-Abay FM 102.9 and Bisrat FM 101.1 in serving their audiences by providing content deliveries in news writing and reporting. The study based on what listeners of the mushrooming FM radio stations complaints on lacking content from the ... more

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Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa

Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, Marie Rodet (eds.)

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2018), ix, 320 pp.

"Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa is one of the first volumes to put new media and old media into significant conversation with one another, and also offers a rare comparison between Christianity and Islam in Africa. The contributors find many previously unacknowledged correspondenc ... more

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Global Photographies: Memory – History – Archives

Sissy Helff, Stefanie Michels (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2018), 208 pp.

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Discourses of Power and Counter-Power in the Zimbabwean Politico-Religious Communication in Online News Media

Nyasha Mapuweyi, Janina Wozniak

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 273-295

"Christianity as the predominant religion in Zimbabwe consists of several faith groupings, each of which responds to public events through the mass media. Mainline churches uphold a conventional human rights approach to faith-based political criticism, while Mapostori or Apostolic churches follow an ... more

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Dangerous Disinformation

D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue May (2018), pp. 23-38

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Mapping the Ethiopian Media

Wazema Radio (2018), 16 pp.

"In a nutshell, the nascent print media of Ethiopia is in danger of a complete collapse. This is not the effect of the digital tsunami; it is primarily because of unprofessionalism and authoritarianism. Undoubtedly, the spread of mobile telephones and the Internet further endangers their existence. ... more

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Women in News Somalia

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2018), 5 pp.

"Women in News Somalia aims to increase women’s leadership and voices in the media. It does so by equipping women journalists and editors with the skills, strategies, and support networks to take on greater leadership positions within their media. Through a two-year programme (2015-2017) twelve wo ... more

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Community Safety Toolkit

Cape Town: Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF);Gun Free South Africa (GFSA) (2018), 234 pp.

"This guide will support you in creating exciting and impactful content for the airwaves and community outreach activities around gun violence and community safety. Children’s Radio Foundation has partnered with Gun Free South Africa (GFSA) to build the capacity of youth to influence and shape beh ... more

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The Professional Election Reporter: Guidelines for Journalists Covering Elections in Zimbabwe

Henrik Keith Hansen, Vincent Kahiya, Admire Mare, Simbiso Marimbe

International Media Support (IMS);Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) (2018), 48 pp.

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State of the Newsroom 2017: Fakers and Makers

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Journalism (2018), iv, 60 pp.

"The fourth annual report looks at jobs in the newsroom, fake news and fact-checking journalism, and highlights the problem of threats to media freedom in South Africa. In a survey conducted across a range of newsrooms both big and small, it found that young, black women journalists are more likely ... more

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Online Supplement to Working Paper 2018.1. Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw, Philip N. Howard

Oxford: University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute;Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.

"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s ... more

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