Title:
Newsmaking cultures in Africa : normative trends in the dynamics of socio-political & economic struggles
Author:
Mabweazara, Hayes Mawindi, 1977- editor.
ISBN:
9781137541086
Physical Description:
xxv, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
1. Reinvigorating 'Age-Old Questions': African Journalism Cultures and the Fallacy of Global Normative Homogeneity / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara -- 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 / Ibrahim Seaga Shaw -- 3. African Journalism Cultures: The Struggle for Free Expression Against Neo-Patrimonial Governance / Robert A. White and Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara -- Part II. Professional Practices, Cultures and Identity : 4. The Nairobian and the 'Politics' of Tabloidisation in Kenya's Print Media / George Ogola -- 5. When Your 'Take-Home' Can Hardly Take You Home: Moonlighting and the Quest for Economic Survival in the Zimbabwean Press / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara -- 6. Press Freedom in the African Great Lakes Region: A Comparative Study of Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo / Anke Fiedler and Marie-Soleil Frère -- 7. Newsmaking Practices in Uganda: A Comparative Framing Analysis of Two Leading Newspapers / Brian Semujju -- Part III. Ethical and Professional Dilemmas : 8. Brown Envelope Journalism: The Contradication Between Ethical Mindset and Unethical Practice / Terje Skjerdal -- 9. Poor Capitalisation and Corruption Within the Nigerian Press / Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u -- 10. 'Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place'? A Comparative Study of How Business Journalists Negotiate Ethical Policies in Kenya and South Africa / Admire Mare -- 11. Media Ethics and Journalism in Tanzania / Ammina B. Kothari -- Part IV. Politics, Political Parallelism and Partisanship : 12. Journalism, Politics and Professionalism in Zimbabwe / Wallace Chuma -- 13. Ideology as News: Political Parallelism in Botswana's Public Media / Letshwiti Batlhalefi B. Tutwane -- 14. The Journalistic Field in Ethiopia: Where Partisanship and Credibility Cohabit / Abdissa Zerai and Fitih Alemu -- 15. From Watchdogs to Hostages of Peace: The Kenyan Press and the 2013 General Election / Denis Galava -- Part V. New Media and Emerging Professional Cultures : 16. 'We Cannot Bite the Finger the Feeds Us': Journalists' Dilemmas and the Appropriation of 'Alternative' Media in Nigerian Print Newsrooms / Motilola Olufenwa Akinfemisoye -- 17. Reality Check: The Nigerian Press and the Potential of the Internet in the Domestication of International News / Mercy Ette -- Index.
Abstract:
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.