The local in the global: Challenges of teaching global journalism

A teaching philosophy of journalism education in the global South: A South African case study

“…While there are huge differences, there are also many similarities and lessons to be learnt from how the news media has developed in these societies that could point the way towards a better understanding of the development of the news media post-apartheid and future trajectories thereof (Rodny-Gumede, 2013: 133, 2015bSparks, 2011: 6).…”

“…Sreberny (2000: 116), however, argues that the global and the local should not be seen as binaries, and while scholarship in the global South, as well as the global North in recent years, have started to pay more attention to the polarization of North and South, less attention has been paid to a 'Southernization' (Rodny-Gumede, 2013, 2015b of the media and communications discipline and a theory from the South that can contribute to both the global South and the global North (Chasi and RodnyGumede, in press;Comaroff and Comaroff, 2012;Connell, 2007) and, more importantly, be put at the heart of a truly global research agenda and curriculum.…”

“…There is a real imperative to make curricula more reflective of local realities and developments, particularly with a view to common issues facing the news media and journalism in young democracies, transitional and post-colonial countries in the global South (Rodny-Gumede, 2013). This is also made ever more important in the light of calls for the decolonization of the higher education system and in recognizing the experiences and scholarship of the global South as not only equal to the global North (Sreberny, 2000: 114-115) but also necessary for journalism scholarship as a whole, as set out in relation to the broader field of communications by Chasi and Rodny-Gumede (in press), and to advance radical epistemic change 'to counter the current insularity of communication scholarship steeped in archaic, patriarchal and decidedly racialised ideas of the West and the rest' (Chasi and Rodny-Gumede, 2016).…”

Intercultural Competencies Needed for Evolving Media Professions: Educating the Next Generation of Globally Minded Communicators

“…An expanded perspective helps young journalists to contextualize national and international events and to consider effects on populations outside the United States (Deuze, 2001). Strategies for doing this have included exposing students to international reporting experiences (Duffield, 2014; Weaver & Willnat, 2012) and teaching them about press operations in other countries (Rodny-Gumede, 2013).…”

Smash-and-grab, truth and dare …

“…Notwithstanding calls by scholars for 'de-Westernizing' (Curran and Park, 2000) and 'Southernizing' (Rodny-Gumede 2015, 2013) communication studies and attempts at validating theory form the South (Comaroff and Comaroff, 2011;Connell 2007), communication studies remain mired in paradigmatic approaches that cement the global North as the norm upon which communication theories are founded.…”