Working at the End of the Assembly Line: A Conversation with Joris Luyendijk about the Impossibility of Doing Western-style Journalism in Arab Countries

Kester, Bernadette

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“…Researchers have therefore called repeatedly for adaptation of the curricula to societal needs (Galal, 2005; Kamel & Abbasi, 1997) and the de-westernizing of media curricula, as echoed in many studies of media teaching in the Global South. In Arab settings, there are tensions between the teaching of western-oriented courses and local political contexts; even western faculty maintain that importing curricula is an inauthentic practice and fails to incorporate media examples from local contexts (Freeman, 2015; Kester, 2008; O’Rourke, 2011). Critical journalism education has been described as “subversive” because it does not align with an authoritarian context (Napoli, 1986).…”

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How Higher Education Faculty in Egypt Perceive the Effects of Covid-19 on Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication: Perspectives From the Global South

Badr

Elmaghraby

2021

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator

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The article critically examines how faculty in journalism and mass communication perceive the Covid-19 impact on higher education in Egypt. Using an online survey ( N = 135) and 14 in-depth interviews in spring–summer 2020, the article contextualizes the faculty’s ambivalent perceptions within the diffusion of innovation theory. The article bridges a gap in the existing literature by localizing this disrupted delivery in relation to the broader challenges and opportunities for diffusion of digital innovations in higher education. The results nuance the debate on digital education beyond a techno-determinist focus on digital skills to encompass societal awareness of regional and culture-specific digital inequalities.

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How Higher Education Faculty in Egypt Perceive the Effects of Covid-19 on Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication: Perspectives From the Global South

Badr

Elmaghraby

2021

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator

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“…Of course this is easier in democratic countries than in police states. Davies's exposé, though, illustrates that on a practical level, it is not that easy, and on a philosophical level there are even fewer differences (Kester, 2008;Luyendijk, 2006Luyendijk, , 2008.…”

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The Unbearable Limitations of Journalism

Broersma¹

2010

International Communication Gazette

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Though the impossibility of a mimetic and purely objective representation of reality is commonly accepted, it is striking that journalism's claim to truth and authenticity is still so vivid in journalism and in public discourse. Its supposed ability to to mirror reality by verifying true facts remains the basic assumption underlying press critique, as becomes clear in for example the books of Nick Davies and Joris Luyendijk who both criticize journalism for its inability to represent social reality accurately. This article contends that to go beyond the unbearable limitations of journalism and understand how it works, we should not approach journalism as a descriptive discourse but on the contrary as a performative discourse designed to persuade readers that what it describes is real. By successfully doing so, journalism transforms an interpretation into truth — into a reality the public can act upon. It is furthermore argued that journalism does not derive its performative power from its contents (the facts), but merely from its forms and style. News consumers tend to believe the contents that come with professional routines and conventions, justifying and masking the subjective interpretation and news selection of the individual journalist. If we acknowledge that journalism is a performative discourse it is impossible to be transparent about its limitations and its inability to discover the truth and introduce structural ambiguity in news writing as is suggested by press critics.

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“…It is beyond doubt that the aforementioned changes have had consequences for the quantity as well as for the quality of foreign news. Not only has the quantity of foreign news diminished, particularly in the US (Cottle, 2009;Hannerz, 2004;Hess, 1996;Utley, 1997;Wu and Hamilton, 2004), it is also argued that the quality has deteriorated (Kester, 2008;Louw, 2004;Luyendijk, 2006;Paterson and Sreberny, 2004;van Ginneken, 1996).…”

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The Art of Balancing

Kester

2010

International Communication Gazette

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/ This article examines the problems foreign correspondents encounter when working under conditions that differ considerably from those in their home country. In order to illustrate some of the problems, in particular with regard to the accessibility and trustworthiness of sources, the article takes as a case study the experiences of 11 Dutch correspondents posted in Moscow between 1982 and 2007, and examines their strategies to cope with the restrictions encountered working in a (neo-)authoritarian state.

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Working at the End of the Assembly Line: A Conversation with Joris Luyendijk about the Impossibility of Doing Western-style Journalism in Arab Countries

Cited by 7 publications

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How Higher Education Faculty in Egypt Perceive the Effects of Covid-19 on Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication: Perspectives From the Global South

How Higher Education Faculty in Egypt Perceive the Effects of Covid-19 on Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication: Perspectives From the Global South

The Unbearable Limitations of Journalism

The Art of Balancing

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