Newsmaking Cultures in Africa
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This book contributes to a broadened theorisation of journalism by exploring the intricacies of African journalism and its connections with the material realities that underpin the profession on the continent. It pulls together theoretically driven studies that collectively deploy a wide range of evidence to shed some light on newsmaking cultures in Africa – the everyday routines, defining epistemologies, as well as ethical dilemmas. The volume digs beneath the standardised and universalised veneer of professionalism to unpack routine practices and normative trends shaped by local factors, including the structural conditions of deprivation, entrenched political instability (and interference), pervasive neo-patrimonial governance systems, and the influences of technological developments. These varied and complex circumstances are shown to profoundly shape the foundations of journalism in Africa, resulting in routine practices that are both normatively distinct and equally in tune with (imported) Western journalistic cultures. The book thus broadly points to the dialectical nature of news production and the inconsistent and contradictory relationships that characterise news production cultures in Africa. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Reinvigorating ‘Age-Old Questions’: African Journalism Cultures and the Fallacy of Global Normative Homogeneity (Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara)....Pages 1-27 Front Matter ....Pages 29-29 Towards a Journalism Education Model Curricula in Africa: A Call for a ‘Glocal’ Rather than Global (Universal) Journalism Model (Ibrahim Seaga Shaw)....Pages 31-52 African Journalism Cultures: The Struggle for Free Expression Against Neo-Patrimonial Governance (Robert A. White, Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara)....Pages 53-76 Front Matter ....Pages 77-77 The Nairobian and the ‘Politics’ of Tabloidisation in Kenya’s Print Media (George Ogola)....Pages 79-97 When Your ‘Take-Home’ Can Hardly Take You Home: Moonlighting and the Quest for Economic Survival in the Zimbabwean Press (Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara)....Pages 99-117 Press Freedom in the African Great Lakes Region: A Comparative Study of Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Anke Fiedler, Marie-Soleil Frère)....Pages 119-143 Newsmaking Practices in Uganda: A Comparative Framing Analysis of Two Leading Newspapers (Brian Semujju)....Pages 145-160 Front Matter ....Pages 161-161 Brown Envelope Journalism: The Contradiction Between Ethical Mindset and Unethical Practice (Terje Skjerdal)....Pages 163-183 Poor Capitalisation and Corruption Within the Nigerian Press (Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u)....Pages 185-205 ‘Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place’? A Comparative Study of How Business Journalists Negotiate Ethical Policies in Kenya and South Africa (Admire Mare)....Pages 207-228 Media Ethics and Journalism in Tanzania (Ammina B. Kothari)....Pages 229-248 Front Matter ....Pages 249-249 Journalism, Politics and Professionalism in Zimbabwe (Wallace Chuma)....Pages 251-267 Ideology as News: Political Parallelism in Botswana’s Public Media (Letshwiti Batlhalefi B. Tutwane)....Pages 269-289 The Journalistic Field in Ethiopia: Where Partisanship and Credibility Cohabit (Abdissa Zerai, Fitih Alemu)....Pages 291-312 From Watchdogs to Hostages of Peace: The Kenyan Press and the 2013 General Election (Denis Galava)....Pages 313-334 Front Matter ....Pages 335-335 ‘We Cannot Bite the Finger that Feeds Us’: Journalists’ Dilemmas and the Appropriation of ‘Alternative’ Media in Nigerian Print Newsrooms (Motilola Olufenwa Akinfemisoye)....Pages 337-356 Reality Check: The Nigerian Press and the Potential of the Internet in the Domestication of International News (Mercy Ette)....Pages 357-376 Back Matter ....Pages 377-396
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