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Public Support for Local and Community Media in Three Countries: A Comparative Study
African Journalism Studies, volume 44, issue 4 (2023), pp. 310-326
"In the discussion of possible solutions to the business crisis facing legacy media, insufficient attention has been paid to existing arrangements that channel public money to media serving marginalised audiences, particularly in Global South countries. Argentina and South Africa are upper middle-in
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Disrupted Media - Disrupted Academy: Rethinking African J-Schools
Politics and Public Policy Shorenstein Center on Media (2022), 37 pp.
"The question at the core of this discussion paper is what are the implications for African journalism schools of the international crisis facing journalism and the specific needs of local audiences? More specifically, what are the implications in terms of curriculum, target groups and modalities? O
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"A summary of the forthcoming policy paper Greening Africa's news deserts: The search for sustainable local media in sub-Saharan Africa, soon to be published. The policy paper has been written with support from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Fojo Media Institute. It focuses on local and communit
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Greening Africa’s News Deserts: The Search for Sustainable Local Media in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2022), 38 pp.
"Among principles that should underpin policy choices are: a focus on systemic impact; particular attention on the areas where information poverty is greatest; platform-neutrality, while preferring platforms used most commonly; ongoing monitoring of developments in and around media at local levels t
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Strings Attached: Sustainability and Dependence in Five Models of Local and Community Media
Top Insights
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 2 (2022), pp. 179-197
"Sustainability is a key issue for local and community media in the Global South as well as the Global North, albeit in different ways. After identifying significant gaps in the sustainability literature, the article presents and discusses a taxonomy of ‘models’ – the relationships that arise
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"Sustainable journalism addresses two intertwined challenges of our time: * The sustainability crisis of society, e.g. environmental crises, democratic crises, poverty, financial crises, armed conflicts, etc. Obviously, journalism has a crucial role to play here since it contributes greatly to the p
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The Healthy Community Radio Station
Key Guidance
"This publication is a diagnostic tool for a "health check" or assessment of the sustainability of community radio stations. The check includes five areas: mission and governance of a community radio station; management and staffing; infrastructure and finances; programming; and community involvemen
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News Broadcasting on South African Community Radio: In Search of New Public Spheres
African Journalism Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (2011), pp. 61-79
"The South African community station movement, consisting now of around 100 such stations, situates itself explicitly in the international tradition of alternative, grassroots and (in some cases) radical media. The stations aspire - and are mandated to - cater for poor and marginalised communities,
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Media Courts of Honour: Self-Regulatory Councils in Southern Africa and Elsewhere
Top Insights
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 50 pp.
"What emerges from the discussion of the Southern African media councils is a picture of relatively new institutions, struggling to find their place in a changing, difficult media and political terrain. They share many common challenges, as they contend with hostile governments, poor journalistic pr
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Black, White and Grey: Ethics in South African Journalism
Cape Town: Double Storey (2004), xi, 291 pp.
