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Beyond Cheerleading: Navigating the Boundaries of Science Journalism in South Africa
Journalism Studies, volume 24, issue 14 (2023), pp. 1734-1753
"Science journalism faces an issue that is part of a bigger picture of media change. The economic pressures which have seen shrinking resources available for reporting news are contrasted by the relentless rise of corporate communication and public relations. Institutional science communication has
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Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the "Heart of Darkness" to "Africa Rising"
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London; New York: Routledge (2017), xvii, 239 pp.
"Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, esp
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Reporting Humanitarian Narratives: Are We Missing Out on the Politics?
"Suzanne Franks discusses how the visually dominated storytelling of famines in Africa distorted the causes of famine and therefore obscured the most effective solutions. As journalists struggled to document the depths of human suffering, humanitarian communication in these early stages raised compa
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From Pictures to Policy: How Does Humanitarian Reporting Have an Influence?
In: Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media
Peter Lang (2015), pp. 153-166
"In contrast to the contemporary media perception the government aid provided to Ethiopia was pretty much existing money that was reconfigured and, despite appearances, there was no ‘new money’. The UK Government rejected any longer term ongoing engagement and was just concerned with short-term
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Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media
London: Hurst (2013), x, 236 pp.
"The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unprecedented impact, challenging perceptions of Africa and mobilising public opinion and philanthropic action in a dramatic new way. The contemporary international configuration of
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The Neglect of Africa and the Power of Aid
International Communication Gazette, volume 72, issue 1 (2010), pp. 71-84
"Using exclusive access to the BBC archive, the article examines how and why media coverage of Africa has been misleading and misinformed in the postcolonial period. It examines the extent to which the close relationship between media coverage and aid agencies has damaged the cause of informing the
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China-Africa Media Relations
Global Media and Communication, volume 5, issue 1 (2009), pp. 129-136
