Newsmaking Cultures in Africa 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 1137541091
• ISBN-13: 9781137541093
• Author: Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara

This book contributes to a broadened theorisation of journalism by exploring the intricacies of African journalism and its connections with the material realities that underpin the profession on the continent. It pulls together theoretically driven studies that collectively deploy a wide range of evidence to shed some light on newsmaking cultures in Africa – the everyday routines, defining epistemologies, as well as ethical dilemmas. The volume digs beneath the standardised and universalised veneer of professionalism to unpack routine practices and normative trends shaped by local factors, including the structural conditions of deprivation, entrenched political instability (and interference), pervasive neo-patrimonial governance systems, and the influences of technological developments. These varied and complex circumstances are shown to profoundly shape the foundations of journalism in Africa, resulting in routine practices that are both normatively distinct and equally in tune with (imported) Western journalistic cultures. The book thus broadly points to the dialectical nature of news production and the inconsistent and contradictory relationships that characterise news production cultures in Africa.

Table contents:

1. Reinvigorating ‘Age-Old Questions’: African Journalism Cultures and the Fallacy of Global Normative Homogeneity
Part I. Issues and Conceptual Debates
2. Towards a Journalism Education Model Curricula in Africa: A Call for a ‘Glocal’ Rather than Global (Universal) Journalism Model
3. African Journalism Cultures: The Struggle for Free Expression Against Neo-Patrimonial Governance
Part II. Professional Practices, Cultures and Identity
4. The Nairobian and the ‘Politics’ of Tabloidisation in Kenya’s Print Media
5. When Your ‘Take-Home’ Can Hardly Take You Home: Moonlighting and the Quest for Economic Survival in the Zimbabwean Press
6. Press Freedom in the African Great Lakes Region: A Comparative Study of Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo
7. Newsmaking Practices in Uganda: A Comparative Framing Analysis of Two Leading Newspapers
Part III. Ethical and Professional Dilemmas
8. Brown Envelope Journalism: The Contradiction Between Ethical Mindset and Unethical Practice
9. Poor Capitalisation and Corruption Within the Nigerian Press
10. ‘Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place’? A Comparative Study of How Business Journalists Negotiate Ethical Policies in Kenya and South Africa
11. Media Ethics and Journalism in Tanzania
Part IV. Politics, Political Parallelism and Partisanship
12. Journalism, Politics and Professionalism in Zimbabwe
13. Ideology as News: Political Parallelism in Botswana’s Public Media
14. The Journalistic Field in Ethiopia: Where Partisanship and Credibility Cohabit
15. From Watchdogs to Hostages of Peace: The Kenyan Press and the 2013 General Election
Part V. New Media and Emerging Professional Cultures
16. ‘We Cannot Bite the Finger that Feeds Us’: Journalists’ Dilemmas and the Appropriation of ‘Alternative’ Media in Nigerian Print Newsrooms
17. Reality Check: The Nigerian Press and the Potential of the Internet in the Domestication of International News

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