Mapping Communication Patterns between Romani Media and Romani NGOs in the Republic of Macedonia

Plaut, Shayna

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“…On an individual level, one journalist may choose to highlight or diminish his or her transnational identity in particular pieces, stories, and news outlets (personal communication: Dervišbegovic´; Furuly; Papinot; Svala). Rather than see this as inconsistent, one can see it as a strategic use of one's identity and a calculated reading of one's audience(s) (Plaut 2010(Plaut , 2012a. In the end, what matters is what is going to be the most effective for short-and long-term goals (Brysk 2013b, 8-9, 10).…”

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“…This was confirmed in interviews with donors and grant administrators (personal communication: Javonovic and Rethy; Struthers; Skopljanac). The result is unprofessional and marginalized Romani media outlets that provide ethnic and linguistic pride rather than a source of news and information (Lange 2006, 6, 50;Plaut 2010). Therefore, when Romani audience members were surveyed by funders about their daily news and information consumption, nearly all referenced the mainstream media (Walter 2010).…”

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“…This is very different from the stated goals of Romani media as noted in the internal foundation evaluations which surveyed Romani audiences as well as producers (Pietikäinen 2003(Pietikäinen , 2008bStruthers 2008). All Roma interviewed noted that although community-based media is helpful, especially given the increase in racism in Europe, what was needed was to have more Roma in the mainstream media in order to shape and change the perception of the mainstream population about Roma (Lange 2006;Plaut 2010;personal communication: Papinot;Moricz).…”

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“…According to those interviewed and my own observations, Romani media is produced in Romani and in the state language and is most often a mixture of both. 14 Nearly all Saami and Roma speak the majority, state language and consume majority-language media (Skogerbø 2003;Lange 2006;Markelin and Husband 2007;Plaut 2010;personal communication: Struthers).…”

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“…Occasionally languages may be mixed with other minority languages such as Albanian and Turkish in the southern Balkans (especially Macedonia, Kosovo, and Bulgaria) or Hungarian in parts of Slovakia (Gross 2006;Lange 2006;Plaut 2010).…”

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The Saami and the Roma are both transnational peoples with robust journalistic practices. Although vastly different in socio-economic standing and relationship to the state, both groups choose to develop journalism and journalists to share their perspective of the world; and do so while remaining true to the distinction between journalism and propaganda. This requires access and ability to frame issues and actors, problems and solutions while maintaining professional journalistic standards. Media-both having one's "own" media and creating stories that appear in the "mainstream" media-is key to this practice. Saami and Romani journalists very clearly show there is a way to be objective without being neutral. By interviewing 45 journalists, journalism educators, funders, and evaluators across six countries, as well as examining primary source documents, I show that although emerging from radically different contexts, the Saami and Roma are both distinct nations stretching over two or more states-transnational-which allows, and indeed requires, a unique approach to journalism. I identify two distinct strategies in approaching the goals and practice of, "transnational peoples' journalism": nation building/speaking within and intervening/speaking outside.

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Section: But Is There Transnational Peoples' Journalism?mentioning

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