Beyond Puppet Journalism: The Bridging Work of Transnational Journalists in a Local Field

Moon, Ruth

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2019.1638293

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“…I jotted field notes in real time and supplemented them later each day with memos and observations; I then organized field notes and interview transcripts through an open coding process to better identify and understand relevant observations (Moon, 2019(Moon, , p. 1718.…”

Section: Field Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of the Participant Observation Method in Journalism: Designing and Reporting

Shin

Miller

2022

rev commun res

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The participant observation method involves numerous methodological competencies and procedures, yet no systematic research has been found to date that evaluates the qualitative practice. The method has played a foundational role in the field of journalism and is growing in use among researchers. Despite its contributions to knowledge about organizations, movements, and cultures, the procedures that encompass the method may be unfamiliar or unclear for some researchers according to the literature. The study analyzed journalism researchers’ reporting of methodological information in studies involving news contexts and assessed scholars’ adherence to methodological reporting best practices in 150 journal articles. The results showed participant observation researchers employed data trustworthiness techniques by primarily using qualitative formal interviews and they also provided site selection logic. The results, however, also showed evidence of methodological conceptual ambiguity when referring to participant observation method techniques and low reporting of several specific recommended techniques associated with participation observation. The narrative reflects our desire to help other researchers learn more about the method, while also encouraging methodological transparency to improve the collective understanding of the method. We put forth eight participant observation reporting recommendations rooted in anthropology and sociology to consider when reporting methodological practices. The hope is this introduction and the proposed measures will initiate discussions and support community around the practice of participant observation.

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Section: Field Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of the Participant Observation Method in Journalism: Designing and Reporting

Shin

Miller

2022

rev commun res

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“…The policy approach to journalism also reflects the influence of the genocide. Media policy over the past two decades aimed to promote peace (Allen and Stremlau, 2005); as a result, the journalism field is governed by strong regulations (Moon, 2019; Cruikshank, 2017). These policies guarantee press freedom, but they also outlaw defamation, discussions of ethnicity, and discrimination, and these terms are vaguely defined (Harber, 2014).…”

Section: Content Production As Negotiationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preparing to publish: How journalists negotiate content restrictions in semi-authoritarian states

Moon

2022

International Communication Gazette

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Journalists act strategically in response to their political environments, using practices like self-censorship to avoid negative repercussions from powerful actors. But what does self-censorship look like in practice? Grounded in theories of policy response and media sociology, this study uses journalistic narratives to examine three strategies journalists employ to publish news while safeguarding themselves in semi-authoritarian contexts with restricted media freedom. Journalists choose among these based on several factors, including the relative power available to them in a particular organizational context, story idea, or angle. The analysis shows that self-censorship is more negotiated and less one-directional than the current literature suggests. The negotiation lens also shows how power dynamics can change on a situational basis, even in contexts where one actor clearly has significantly more power than the other.

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“…As a theory, it allows for the excavation of the uniqueness, intricacies, and shifts in journalism's coverage of events. This excavation necessitates the taking into account of nation-specific "historical and sociopolitical dynamics" (Moon 2019(Moon :1716 that influence where actors within the field are positioned (Banda 2008;Nothias 2020). Therefore, it is not enough to focus on African journalism fields without understanding the context within which they operate and the nexus between western and local articulations of their doxa (Cheruiyot 2021;Mabweazara 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The use of field theory to study African journalism has shown promise in pushing back against normative assumptions about how African journalism operates (see, for example, McIntyre and Sobel 2018; Moon 2019). As a theory, it allows for the excavation of the uniqueness, intricacies, and shifts in journalism's coverage of events.…”

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Making African Suffering Legible: Co-Constructing Narrative of the Darfur Atrocities

Wahutu

2022

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Although the last two decades have seen a concerted effort to understand the role and place of African journalism in covering events on the continent, there has been little focus on who journalists chose to quote as sources in their stories. This despite scholarship on sources being vital to our understanding of how journalists gain the “raw materials” to produce stories about events. Thus, while scholarship has begun taking Africa's coverage of itself seriously, there has been a slower uptick in focusing on whom African journalists give voice to as co-constructors of events. This silence is even more perplexing, considering that scholars and observers have been critical of who is quoted as a source when the global north covers events unfolding in Africa. This paper shows that African suffering was made legible for African audiences through a combination of American, English, and Sudanese voices. Specifically, it finds that African journalists are –counterintuitively - vital players in silencing some African voices in their construction of knowledge about the atrocities in Darfur. Despite the criticism leveled at journalism fields in the global north over their perceived silencing of African voices, African journalists are similarly engaged in this silencing as well.

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Beyond Puppet Journalism: The Bridging Work of Transnational Journalists in a Local Field

Cited by 20 publications

References 34 publications

A Review of the Participant Observation Method in Journalism: Designing and Reporting

A Review of the Participant Observation Method in Journalism: Designing and Reporting

Preparing to publish: How journalists negotiate content restrictions in semi-authoritarian states

Making African Suffering Legible: Co-Constructing Narrative of the Darfur Atrocities

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