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Journalism under Duress: Worlds of Journalism Study Report (Wave 3: 2021–2025)
Top Insights
Munich: WJS Center Ludwig-Maximilian Universität (LMU) (2025), 371 pp.
"This report presents findings from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS3), conducted between 2021 and 2025. In this iteration, we focused on journalists’ perceptions of risk and uncertainty in their profession and sought to identify key factors that shape how journalists navigate
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Media and religion in Ethiopia
Addis Ababa: Fojo Media Institute (2024), 59 pp.
"The content analysis shows that polarization is still a major problem in the reporting of religion in the Ethiopian media. Stories are often biased towards the journalist’s political and ethnic stance. Claiming that they are ’secular’, the state media (’public media’) tend to ignore impor
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The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiv, 491 pp.
"Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opp
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The Ethnification of the Ethiopian Media
Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University; Fojo Media Institute; International Media Support (IMS) (2021), 59 pp.
"[...] The press situation in the country is deeply disconcerting. The reason for this is that the media landscape is as polarized as never before, and that parts of the media are being blamed for playing a pivotal role in the turbulence which have erupted in various parts of the country since 2019.
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Citizen Journalism in China
Global Media and China, volume 4, issue 1 (2019), pp. 3-124
Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures Around the Globe
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New York: Columbia University Press (2019), xi, 434 pp.
"How do journalists around the world view their own function and role in society? Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 25,000 journalists in 66 countries between 2012 and 2015, Worlds of Journalism examines the different ways journalists conceive of their responsibilities
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Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles
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London: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxv, 396 pp.
"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 governanc
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The Ethiopian Journalist: Loyalist and Change Agent
Addis Abeba: [author] (2017), 27 pp.
"The report is based on interviews with 350 journalists from all parts of the Ethiopian media. The study detects some important changes which have occurred in the Ethiopian journalist fraternity recently. In just a few years, the local journalist population has become one of the most educated in the
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Journalists in Ethiopia
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.
"With regards to professional role orientations, Ethiopian journalists found it most important to support national development, promote tolerance and cultural diversity, provide analysis of current affairs, and educate the audience. The relevance of these roles was fairly undisputed among the interv
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Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent
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London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 308 pp.
"This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of t
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Building Capacity for a Changing Media Environment in Africa: A Focus on Training Needs and Gender Concerns
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 3 (2016), pp. 247-318
China's Media and Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 237 pp.
"This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines and nations to examine and assess the effectiveness of China's soft power initiatives in Africa. It throws light not only on China's engagement with Africa but also on how China's increasing influence is received in the African media."
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The International History of Communication Study
New York; London: Routledge (2016), xvii, 527 pp.
Why the 'African' Still Matters in African Journalism Studies
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 57-64
"I have scrutinised five volumes of three media journals which all have ‘African’ in their title, in order to uncover the tendencies in their cultural and geographical orientation. The three journals are scholarly related, although they vary from a specific focus on journalism (Ecquid Novi: Afri
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Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures
London; New York: Routledge (2014), x, 273 pp.
The Three Alternative Journalisms of Africa
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 7 (2012), pp. 636-654
"Much African journalism scholarship has had a critical stand towards ‘Western’ journalism models. The criticism has resulted in the submission of alternative African journalism models such as ujamaa journalism, ubuntu journalism and oral discourse journalism. The present article reviews a numbe
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The Somali Media and Their Peace-Building Potential
Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies, volume 11 (2012), pp. 27-50
"One of the key issues to be interrogated by media researchers in relation to conflicted societies is the extent to which the media serve to escalate or reduce the overall conflict situation. The argument goes that the media either escalate the conflict by accentuating disagreements, foregrounding c
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Development Journalism Revived: The Case of Ethiopia
African Journalism Studies, volume 32, issue 2 (2011), pp. 58-74
"In 2008, Ethiopian authorities presented a draft policy document which established development journalism as the official reporting style for the state media. The policy prescribes that the media an journalists should play an active role in the country's development scheme. Assigning such a role th
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Journalists or Activists? Self-Identity in the Ethiopian Diaspora Online Community
Journalism, volume 12, issue 6 (2011), pp. 727-744
"This study investigates the role of the diaspora online media as stakeholders in the transnational Ethiopian media landscape. Through content analysis of selected websites and interviews with editors, the research discusses how the sites relate to recognized journalistic ideals and how the editors
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Teaching Journalism or Teaching African Journalism? Experiences from Foreign Involvement in a Journalism Programme in Ethiopia
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 5, issue 1 (2011), pp. 24-51
"Journalism programmes across the African continent have different attitudes to the issue of universal vs. local values in journalism. This article discusses the issue in light of a post-graduate journalism programme that opened at Addis Ababa University in 2004. In its 5-year implementation phase,
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