Towards an African Journalism Model

Shaw, Ibrahim Seaga

doi:10.1177/1748048509339792

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“…This tracks with a longer history of journalism model exportation, whereby models for practice are exported to contexts where journalism professionalization is thought to be particularly malleable (Golding 1977). However, because peace journalism has emerged in a mainly Euro-American academic context, there is reason to believe that its principles may not be extended to contexts like East Africa without modifications (Mabweazara 2018; Shaw 2009). This study engages this tension by examining peace journalism as individuals understand it in the contexts in which they are situated.…”

Section: Journalists’ Perceptions and The Hierarchy-of-influences Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

For People, For Policy: Journalists’ Perceptions of Peace Journalism in East Africa

Doll

2022

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Compared to studies on peace-journalism content, little research examines journalists’ perceptions of peace journalism despite theoretical suggestions that individuals influence content production. To address this relative disparity, this study examines the social conditions shaping journalists’ perceptions of peace journalism using a hierarchy-of-influences perspective and data from 20 in-depth interviews with East African journalists, conducted between September 2020 and February 2021. Findings suggest that journalists generally understand peace journalism in one of two ways, each with distinct intended audiences, aims, and reporting interventions. Moreover, when examined alongside respondents’ professional situations, these perceptions tend to be stratified by varying degrees of professional precarity.

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Section: Journalists’ Perceptions and The Hierarchy-of-influences Modelmentioning

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For People, For Policy: Journalists’ Perceptions of Peace Journalism in East Africa

Doll

2022

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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“…Misgivings over the Western model of journalism have increased calls for adoption of regionally suitable models of journalism, one of which is the call for a reflection on Afrocentric-style journalism. Shaw (2009: 492) argues that approaches suggesting the ‘non-existence of any journalistic precept unique to Africa’ problematically convey ‘the impression that what obtains, or remains, of journalism practice in Africa, is nothing but a holistic replica of the western liberal democracy model’. In Africa, the call for journalistic practices and pedagogies that recognise local cultural traditions reflects the growing anxieties over the inadequacies of the Western model of journalism as an appropriate lens through which to understand the African situation, particularly as that Western model was based on a different cultural understanding (Kasoma, 1996).…”

Section: Towards An Inclusive Approach To De-westernising African Jou...mentioning

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“…Rodny-Gumede (2013: 131) highlights how scholars (e.g. Motsaathebe, 2011; Nyamnjoh, 2005; Sesanti, 2009), among others, have suggested that ‘African theory of journalism must be developed and that journalism training and curricula in Africa need to become more African and Africanised in such a way that journalism training can reflect the theory of journalism based on African values and moral philosophy, and African culture.’ Journalism scholars such as Shaw (2009) and Skjerdal (2012) suggest that common deep-rooted beliefs and traditions such as the Ubuntu philosophy may be a promising way to approach journalism education in Africa and address issues unique to the socio-cultural and political making of various African countries. Later, we highlight some shortcomings of the concept of Ubuntu as an approach to de-Westernising journalism on its own.…”

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Journalism education, research, and practice in Africa: Toward a transformative approach

Obijiofor

Oelgemoeller

2022

International Communication Gazette

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Western conceptualisation of journalism as a profession and an academic discipline fundamentally represents systemic challenges to how journalism could be theorised, researched, and practised in ways that address and reflect the specificities of non-Western contexts such as Africa. It is in this context that calls for recognition of locally relevant epistemologies of journalism have generated vigorous debates among journalists, journalism educators, and communication academics. The authors argue that, in a rapidly changing world that recognises diverse perspectives, communities, cultures, national differences, and various ways of doing things, journalism education and practice should no longer be viewed through the linear and dominant lens of Western theoretical and practical ways of knowing. The comparative analysis presented in this paper provides critical insights into new approaches to theoretical and methodological developments that inform the discipline, with the aim to inspire and encourage wider debate in international communication field across cultures.

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“…Journalism in Africa has often been theorised from the prism of Global North's epistemology, ontology and methodology largely due to its colonial ancestry (Shaw 2009(Shaw , 2018. Thus, the actors, organizational routines, cultures and practices of journalism in Africa are viewed using a professional gaze that often fails to acknowledge the sociocultural dynamics within which it is practised, consumed and distributed.…”

Section: Genres Of Peripheral Journalism(s) In Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

Making News Outside Legacy Media

Cheruiyot

Wahutu

Mare

et al. 2021

African Journalism Studies

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One of the recurrent questions in journalism scholarship is whether journalism as a profession and institution can grow and thrive outside the traditional newsroom (especially, with the dominant agenda-setting media in most African countries being either state-or privately run press). In introducing this special issue, we revisit this pertinent question, while also considering the implications of today's digitally networked continent, and the question of the ever-expanding communication ecology that is a dynamic space for media production by both human and nonhuman actors. First, we acknowledge that the current peripheralization of journalism is a global phenomenon, and that digital technologies seem to reproduce similar trends and patterns in various journalistic cultures across the world, and therefore the increasingly connected continent cannot be understood in isolation. The case studies featured in our special issue show that digital technologies have clearly fast-tracked the changes in media production and intensified the disruptive effects of the operations of non-journalistic actors within the continent's communication ecology. We then argue that when carefully considered, these changes in media production and journalistic practices are merely part of a continuation of trends that preceded the digital age. Non-traditional ways of making news have been driven mainly by non-journalistic actors' perpetual need to challenge or question traditional actors, in media and politics, as the exclusive disseminators, the dominant voices, or the sole arbiters in spaces of deliberation within the communication ecology.

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Towards an African Journalism Model

Cited by 47 publications

References 23 publications

For People, For Policy: Journalists’ Perceptions of Peace Journalism in East Africa

For People, For Policy: Journalists’ Perceptions of Peace Journalism in East Africa

Journalism education, research, and practice in Africa: Toward a transformative approach

Making News Outside Legacy Media

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