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Annual Report 2014

Dar es Salaam: World Family of Radio Maria Africa (2014), 21 pp.

Business Journalism Thrives - Even Under Repressive Regimes

Don Podesta

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 8 pp.

"Even as a growing number of authoritarian regimes crack down on the political press, business news is thriving. And the coverage is more vigorous than might be expected. Enterprising journalists are exposing mismanagement and unearthing shady business deals, and — even at times exposing official ... more

Deconstructing Terror: Assessing Media’s Role in Religious Intolerance and Radicalisation

Amos Kibet

Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2014), xiii, 52 pp.

"The study examined various sampled media content and interviewed key informants to understand professional and ethical considerations informing media coverage of terror, religious extremism and radicalisation. From the findings, it is evident that the media somehow contributes to the propagation of ... more

Análise da cobertura de saúde na mídia moçambicana 2013

Rui Lamarques

Maputo: IREX (2014), 32 pp.

"Se quisermos caracterizar o perfil das fontes às quais os jornalistas recorreram, poder-se-á dizer que esta é masculina, oficial e com fala desenraizada de um lugar geográfico específico – portanto, de nível nacional. É o caso do ministro da Saude, Alexandre Manguele, que é uma fonte reco ... more

State of the Newsroom: South Africa 2014. Disruptions Accelerated

Glenda Daniels (ed.)

Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Journalism (2014), x, 134 pp.

Somaliland Press Freedom: Opportunities and Challenges

Social Research and Development Institute (SORADI);Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2014), 139 pp.

"Somaliland needs legal, policy and institutional reforms in order to avoid arbitrary and politically motivated interference with the dissemination of information and opinions to the public. This is the conclusion of one of the papers presented at the 4th Annual Conference organized by the Social Re ... more

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Media, Participation and Constitution-Making in Ethiopia

Nicole Stremlau

Journal of African Law, volume 58, issue 2 (2014), pp. 231-249

"In the early 1990s, Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), drafted one of Africa’s most ambitious constitutions, allowing for ethnic federalism, decentralization and democratic reforms. The constitution has been highly controversial and many of ... more

Women and Media: Africa in Focus

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2014), 35 slides

"Education and language skills are the main factors that influence which platform women access most frequently. Daily TV use is similar for men and women but women tend to lag men in frequent radio and internet use. Once a country reaches a critical mass in mobile penetration, gaps between both male ... more

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South Africa’s Protection of State Information Bill: What Are the Lessons Learned for Africa?

Christian Echle, Justine Limpitlaw

KAS International Reports, issue 4 (2014), pp. 23-35

"The highly debated Protection of State Information Bill (POSIB) in South Africa represents the first attempt of a sub-Saharan African country to create security legislation which is not based on Colonial law. It can be assumed that this law will have a significant impact on similar legislative refo ... more

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Transitional Justice, Culture, and Society: Beyond Outreach

Clara Ramírez-Barat (ed.)

New York: Social Science Research Council (SSRC);International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) (2014), 560 pp.

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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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Die orientalischen Christen: Eine unterdrückte und verfolgte Minderheit

Heinz Finger, Werner Wessel (eds.)

Rudolf Solzbacher; Nadim K. Ammann (collab.)

Köln: Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek (2014), 361 pp.

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New Media and the Developmental State in Ethiopia

Iginio Gagliardone

African Affairs, volume 113, issue 451 (2014), pp. 279-299

"The Ethiopian government, led by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has developed one of the most restrictive systems for the regulation of new media in Africa. So far, most discussion has focused on the measures employed by the EPRDF to prevent the Internet and mobile p ... more

Internet Freedom and Freedom of Expression in South Africa

Johannesburg: Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI);Raith Foundation (2014), 31 pp.

"In a rapidly changing civil-political and socio-economic environment, the internet has emerged as one of the primary mechanisms that influence and continue to redefine the practice of democracy. Internet freedom is therefore an increasingly important safeguard towards advancing not only freedom of ... more

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In Service of Two Masters: A Political History of Radio in Pre-Independence Botswana

James Zaffiro

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 28, issue 6 (2014), pp. 958-976

"This study identifies and critically analyses the major imperial (global and regional) political and economic factors and decisions that influenced and shaped the development of pre-independence radio broadcasting in the Bechuanaland Protectorate. With little or no consideration of the needs of the ... 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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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