Who's Reporting Africa Now?
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-5103-3 (ISBN)
As news organizations cut correspondent posts and foreign bureaux, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have begun to expand into news reporting. Why and how do journalists use the photographs, video, and audio that NGOs produce? What effects does this have on the kinds of stories told about Africa? And how have these developments changed the nature of journalism and NGO-work?
Who’s Reporting Africa Now?: Non-Governmental Organizations, Journalists, and Multimedia is the first book to address these questions—using frank interviews and internal documents to shed light on the workings of major news organizations and NGOs, collaborating with one another in specific news production processes. These contrasting case studies are used to illuminate the complex moral and political economies underpinning such journalism, involving not only NGO press officers and journalists but also field workers, freelancers, private foundations, social media participants, businesspeople, and advertising executives.
An award-winning journalist, Kate Wright worked on the BBC’s Africa desk. After gaining her PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London, she took up a position as Chancellor’s Fellow in the Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh.
List of Illustrations – Preface – Acknowledgements – Introduction – NGOs, News Organizations, and Freelancers: An Overview – "Good" Journalism and Moral Economies – Photojournalism, Professionalism, and Print Newspapers: The Independent on Sunday and Christian Aid – War Crimes, Witnessing, and Public Service Television: Channel 4 News and Human Rights Watch – Online Slideshows, "Selling In", and Moral Education: BBC News Online and Save the Children – Digital Dialogue, International Development, and Blogging: The Guardian and Internews – African Self-Help, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Positive Features: The Observer and the Kenyan Paraplegic Organization – Conclusion – Index.
“This book traces the increasingly influential role of NGOs in shaping the story about Africa in global media. Kate Wright draws on her own extensive experience as a journalist as well as empirical research into a range of media, from legacy platforms to online outlets, to provide a persuasive account of the interactions between journalists and NGOs and the moral and political economies underpinning these complex relationships. The book breaks new ground in exploring political and ethical questions at the heart of global journalism in a changing media landscape, and in so doing, it contributes to the building of theory about journalism in and about Africa.”
—Herman Wasserman, Professor of Media Studies, University of Cape Town
“Journalism is a much more complex, mixed, and altogether messy form of media work than it is generally made out to be. Kate Wright offers a critical yet respectful view of what this means in both theory and practice. What a great read!”
—Mark Deuze, Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
“This is a unique book that goes beyond any other in exploring how journalists and NGOs produce knowledge about Africa in today’s multimedia environment. With a sharp eye on the changing contexts and interactions of all relevant actors, it gives an illuminating account of the ‘moral economies’ of journalism about Africa, animating the complex struggles of media producers and reflecting on what these may mean for the ways we learn about and understand Africa today. A valuable read.”
—Lilie Chouliaraki, Chair in Media and Communications, London School of Economics
“This book has so many strengths. It is superbly written, as you might hope for from a former journalist. It significantly advances understanding of news and journalism, via excellent empirical case studies. Yet it also makes a major contribution to ethical thinking about the contemporary media via its skillful use of the concept of moral economy.”
—David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.05.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 6 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 225 mm |
| Gewicht | 424 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4331-5103-0 / 1433151030 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4331-5103-3 / 9781433151033 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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