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The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa: Whose News?
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 266 pp.
"Closely examining the relationship between foreign correspondents of international news media and humanitarian organisations, Lena von Naso shows how the aid and media sectors cooperate in Africa in a unique way. Based on more than 70 interviews with foreign correspondents and aid workers operating
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Development Vs Peace? The Role of Media in the Law of Victims and Land Restitution in Colombia
Media, War & Conflict, volume 11, issue 3 (2018), pp. 336-357
"The Law of Victims and Land Restitution, ratified in June 2011 and enforced since January 2012, constitutes an unprecedented attempt to end armed conflict in Colombia by applying a transitional justice framework and fostering rural development. Drawing on a methodology that integrates framing and r
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"Exploring Journalism Practice and Perception in Developing Countries is a crucial reference source for the latest scholarly material on the impacts of development journalism on contemporary nations and the media’s responsibility to inform citizens of government and non-government activities. High
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The Critical Role of Mass Media in International Norm Diffusion: The Case of UNDP Human Development Reports
International Studies Perspectives, volume 18, issue 3 (2017), pp. 343-364
"What role does mass media play in the promotion of global norms? We address this question through an analysis of Human Development Reports (HDRs) produced by the United Nations Development Programme. Although HDRs have promoted human development ideology over the past twenty-five years, little is k
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Developing News: Global Journalism and the Coverage of "Third World" Development
London; New York: Routledge (2017), ix, 178 pp.
"Developing News sets out to describe how development is articulated in the news and used by newspeople as an analytical category to explain the world. It is about examining development as a discourse that is based on the harmful contrast between the developed and the developing (or the underdevelo
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Journalists’ Development Journalism Role Perceptions: Select Countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa
Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 576-594
"Development journalism remains an important concept in the journalism studies literature, but it has, at the same time, suffered from a lack of empirical research. Drawing on a survey of 2598 journalists from eight South Asian, Southeast Asian, and sub-Saharan African countries, which was conducted
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La télévision ivoirienne (RTI) de 1963 à 2011: Média de développement ou instrument du pouvoir?
Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 223 pp.
"Plus d'un demi-siècle après sa création sous Félix Houphouët-Boigny, la RTI a-t-elle atteint l'objectif fixé au départ, renforcer la cohésion sociale, positionner le pays sur la scène internationale et promouvoir le développement ? A-t-elle été un organe de développement souhaité, où
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Canadian Media and the Developing World: A Critical Mapping of Key Issues, Events, and Actors
Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) (2017), 48 pp.
"The literature review indicates: media coverage remains the major source of news and information about the developing world for Canadians and can exert a strong influence over policymaking; there is a dearth of Canadian scholarship examining media coverage of international development issues; there
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Binary Opposites – Can South African Journalists be Both Watchdogs and Developmental Journalists?
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2016), pp. 35-53
"This article challenges the traditional role ascribed by liberal and developmental media theory that journalists should either be watchdogs or developmental journalists but not both at the same time. As part of the South African leg of the Worlds of Journalism (WJS) project this article argues that
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Combining Detached Watchdog Journalism with Development Ideals: An Exploration of Fijian Journalism Culture
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 6 (2015), pp. 557-576
"Development journalism has been a key focus of discussion among journalism scholars for around half a decade, but most of the attention has been firmly on African and Asian countries. This article examines the situation on the little-researched island nation of Fiji, which has experienced considera
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"This handbook provides a distinctly African perspective on how to create direct linkages between consumers of information and development projects by using words and images that communicate and resonate with ease. Development issues can seem dull and flat but they can create a huge impact in societ
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"While development journalism was mainly a top-down form of communication (authoritative) during the socialistic era, in the liberal era the development-oriented journalists draw on both the Social Responsibility and Libertarian Theories of the media. The ‘state–public service’ broadcasters re
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Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media
London; New York: Routledge (2014), xiv, 264 pp.
"Through its accessible and provocative chapters, Popular Representations of Development introduces the idea that while the issue of 'development' - defined broadly as problems of poverty and social deprivation, and the various agencies and processes seeking to address these - is normally one that i
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Reflexive Engagements: The International Development Blogging Evolution and its Challenges
Development in Practice, volume 23, issue 4 (2013), pp. 455-467
"Writing weblogs (blogs) has become a substantial part of how development is discussed on the Internet. Based on research with development bloggers and the authors' own social media practice, this article is an exploratory case study to approach the impact of blogging on reflective writing, work pra
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Ten Practical Tips for Covering Development
Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2013), 10 pp.
"By definition, development stories are big news in developing countries. The problem is media reports are typically just government announcements of infrastructure development – roads, bridges, hospitals, etc. – and official claims that lives will improve. Those articles turn off the reading an
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Entwicklung oder Profit? Die staatliche und private Presse in Ghana
Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2012), 146 pp.
"Im subsaharischen Afrika orientieren sich die Medien am Entwicklungsjournalismus und am westlichen Journalismusverständnis. Daniel Kuehnhenrich untersucht mit verschiedenen Methoden die Ausprägung dieser Konzepte in den ghanaischen Zeitungen. Seine umfassende Analyse beruht auf der ersten Journal
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Fight for Democracy: The ANC and the Media in South Africa
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2012), xiv, 250 pp.
"Glenda Daniels examines the pattern of paranoia that has crept into public discourse about the media and the ANC, and their conflictual relationship. She analyses this fraught relationship through various popular media stories, such as Manto and Mondli, Zapiro and Zuma. Her argument ist that there
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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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