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African Media Barometer: South Africa 2013

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 74 pp.

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Access to Information in Africa: Examining Progress Since the APAI Declaration

Windhoek: African Platform on Access to Information (APAI);Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 91 pp.

"Out of the twelve countries surveyed, only four have specific access to information laws. These countries are: Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe. However, a significant indication of the shifting tide on the continent is that six of the countries surveyed have some form of specific access to ... more

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Investigative Journalism in Grassroots Independent Print Media in South Africa: A Baseline Study of the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and Limpopo

Eastern Cape Communication Forum (ECCF);Association of Independent Publishers (AIP);Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2013), 20 pp.

"In summary, the findings show that more than half of the analysed newspapers do in fact seek to expose potential wrong doings of government and business and as such are important actors in promoting local accountability. Yet, the findings also show that a lot of the reporting is not as extensive, a ... more

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Media Mapping Briefing Note

African Union (2013), 60 pp.

"The objective of this IST Briefing Note issue is to provide an up to date list of Somali media outlets. The aim of this paper is to help relevant actors understand the landscape of Somali media and use this information in order to guide their engagement and approach with Somali media outlets. Based ... more

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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Tanzania

Dickson Nyariki, Caleb Otieno, Doreen Sinare, Alinda Lema

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2013), 78 pp.

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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Malawi

Lizzie Chikoti, Jameson Ndawala, Rosario Kamanga

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2013), 56 pp.

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Improving Communication Between Humanitarian Aid Agencies and Crisis-Affected People: Lessons from the Infoasaid Project

Carole Chapelier, Anita Shah

London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) (2013), 26 pp.

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Malawi Reporting: Covering the Tripartite Elections

Ivor Gaber

London: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2013), 48 pp.

"This Course Handbook has been produced to accompany the USAID/NDI/IWPR Course in Election Reporting, which is being run for Malawian journalists in the run-up to the 2014 Elections. The Handbook, which follows the day-by-day course programme, contains copies of the slides used during the course plu ... more

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The Media in Society: Religious Radio Stations, Socio-Religious Discourse and National Cohesion in Tanzania

Francis Xavier Ng’atigwa

Bayreuth: Bayreuth University, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Doctoral Thesis (2013), xiv, 215 pp.

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Safety and Protection of Kenyan Journalists: Is it Common Sense or Common Cents?

John Gachie

Kenya Media Programme;Hivos (2013), 48 pp.

"This national baseline survey sets out to achieve two main objectives. First, it seeks to shed more light on and generate awareness of safety and protection issues for journalists within the profession and the public. Secondly, it seeks to provide a knowledge-based platform with which to lay future ... more

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The Impacts of an Entertainment-Education Radio Serial Drama in Botswana on Outcomes Related to HIV Prevention Goals in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

L. Meghan Mahoney, Benjamin R. Bates

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 3 (2013), pp. 353-367

"This study examines the effectiveness of an entertainment education (EE) programme, Makgabaneng, in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Botswana. If successful, this communication intervention should result in greater self-report of attitudes, actions and knowledge related to risk reduction goals am ... more

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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (ed.)

Wiley;Bloomberg Press (2013), 304 pp.

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State of the Newsroom: South Africa 2013. Disruptions and Transitions

Glenda Daniels

Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Journalism (2013), vii, 100 pp.

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Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa, Vol. 2

Justine Limpitlaw

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), pp. 397-707

"A practical guide for journalists practising in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. The handbook not only contains a comprehensive overview of applicable media laws for each country reviewed, it also contains suggestions on possible law reforms to improve ... more

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Citizen Watchdog Report: November 2012-April 2013

Edna Ipalei

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2013), 35 pp.

"For six months between November 2012 and April 2013, fifty citizen watchdog monitors carefully noted incidents of hate speech and dangerous speech broadcast by five radio stations in Kenya. It was part of Internews in Kenya’s Free and Fair Media (FFM) programme aimed at working with the media to ... more

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Promoting Children's Rights: Coverage of Children in South African and Zambian Media

Musa Oswald Rikhotso, Lister Namumba, Kgalalelo L. Morwe, Lethabo T. Dibetso

Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa (2013), 41 pp.

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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman, Francis Nyamnjoh (eds.)

Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa;African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.

"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s ... more

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Dimensions of Advertising Theory and Practice in Africa

Rotimi Williams Olatunji, Beatrice A. Laninhun (eds.)

Dakar: Amalion Publishing (2013), xxii, 256 pp.

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Village Voices for Development: A Study in the Use of Radio to Promote Human Rights and Enable Citizens to Act on Their Rights to Information and Freedom of Speech in Southern Madagascar

Yvonne Orengo, Nicola Harford

Tolagnaro (RM); London: Andry-Lalana-Tohana (ALT);Andrew Lees Trust (2013), 62 pp.

"The purpose of this report is to share the key findings of the VVD radio project in Southern Madagascar after six months of broadcasts in 2012, in particular to document the design and evolution of the pilot project; feedback the outcomes to participating stakeholders; inform the donor community ab ... more

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The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas

Mette Hjort (ed.)

New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiv, 302 pp.