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Ubuntu Journalism and Nation-Building Magic

Colin Chasi, Ylva Rodny-Gumede

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 30, issue 5 (2016), pp. 728-744

"This article explores ideas around nation building, as constructed through the ethos as well as practice of ubuntu journalism. We make the argument that by invoking ubuntu as an underlying ethos for a reporting ethic and practice, the news media contribute to a magical idea of nationhood and nation ... more

Journalism in a Small Place: Making Caribbean News Relevant, Comprehensive, and Independent

Juliette Storr

Calgary: University of Calgary Press (2016), xxv, 267 pp.

"Juliette Storr traces the history of news media, from its inception under British colonial rule to its development in the post-independence period, uncovering the political, economic, social, and technological factors driving current trends in Caribbean journalism. Interviews with journalists, edit ... more

Periodismo y democracia en el entorno digital

Madrid: Sociedad Española de Periodística (SEP) (2016), 164 pp.

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Journalismes d'Afrique
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Marie-Soleil Frère

Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck (2016), 386 pp.

"Cet ouvrage explore les systèmes médiatiques d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone et propose des clés pour aborder leurs spécificités via nombre d’éléments historiques, politiques, sociologiques, juridiques, économiques et technologiques, indispensables pour les replacer dans leur contex ... more

Diálogos lusófonos em comunicação e política

Hélder Prior, Liziane Guazina, Bruno Araújo

Covilhã (PO): Universidade da Beira Interior (2016), 703 pp.

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Ukrainian Media After the EuroMaidan: In Search of Independence and Professional Identity

Dariya Orlova

Publizistik, volume 61, issue 4 (2016), pp. 441-461

"The EuroMaidan protests that shook Ukraine in late 2013 to early 2014 triggered a chain of events that brought numerous changes and challenges for the Ukrainian society. The Ukrainian media landscape has also been affected by the new challenges and impetus for democratization. The post-Maidan perio ... more

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Diccionario de la prensa paraguaya: Itinerario, periódicos, periodistas, periodismo

Alcibíades González Delvalle

Asunción: Servilibro (2016), 266 pp.

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What Can Nonprofit Journalists Actually Do for Democracy?

Magda Konieczna, Elia Powers

Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 12 (2016), pp. 1542-1558

"At a time when news organizations are struggling to define and promote their own relevance, some argue that journalists should make explicit their efforts to contribute to democracy as well as the results of those efforts. This study focuses on one prominent nonprofit news organization, the Interna ... more

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Etre journaliste dans les Grands Lacs: Une identité en (re)construction

Marie-Soleil Frère

In: Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)

Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)

Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 207-223

"Marie-Soleil Frère propose une analyse de l'identité professionnelle des journalistes en RDC, au Burundi et au Rwanda. Partant d'une perspective historique, elle montre comment la profession a évolué dans les trois pays, de la période du monopole étatique à celle du pluralisme médiatique et ... more

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Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation

Chris Paterson (ed.)

London: Routledge (2015), x, 136 pp.

"Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news. Whilst social media demonstrates an unprecedented ability for ... more

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Motivations Behind Donors' Contributions to Crowdfunding Journalism

Lian Jian, Jieun Shin

Mass Communication & Society, volume 18, issue 2 (2015), pp. 165-185

"Crowdfunded journalism is a new model for funding journalism in which reporters solicit micropayments from readers to finance their reporting. In the present study, we seek to identify the major motivations behind readers' donations to a pioneering crowdfunded journalism website, Spot.Us. Under the ... more

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Publishing for Peanuts: Innovation and the Journalism Start-Up

J. J. Robinson, Kristen Grennan, Anya Schiffrin

Columbia University, School of International and Political Affairs;Open Society Foundation (2015), 200 pp.

"Our remit was to look for innovative media outlets that are producing high-quality news, that are technologically innovative and that might actually survive financially. Accordingly, we spent three months interviewing media innovators around the world and reading what others have written on the sub ... ject. This report is divided into seven sections: 1) this introduction, 2) our main findings, 3) two sets of recommendations, one for the media development community and another set for people starting a media outlet, 4) an “Innovation Index” listing practices that we found around the world, 5) a description of our methodology, 6) a review of practitioner reports we read, 7) write-ups describing 35 media outlets, based on interviews we conducted [...] We were inspired and encouraged by what we saw. All over the world, independent media outlets are innovating and overcoming obstacles. Globally, start-ups are demonstrating the drive to take risks for the sake of a good idea. The challenges facing these outlets—and the innovations employed to tackle them—broadly fall into four categories: editorial, business, distribution and security. Operating with agility, media start-ups are finding creative ways to gather and disseminate information. In India, Gram Vaani uses a mobile phone social network to connect the rural poor and circumvent legislative prohibitions on radio broadcasting. In Zimbabwe, The Source survives in the repressive media climate by focusing on business journalism. Oxpeckers in South Africa uses geomapping to report on rhino poaching. Crikey in Australia has built a successful business model based on soliciting tips and scandal from the same audience it reports on and Kenya’s African SkyCAM deploys drones to avoid negotiating with police for access to disaster zones [...] Instead of finding a clear model for what works, we found confirmation of many things we knew or suspected. Independent media outlets vary in size, ambition and model. Few have fully succeeded, while many do one thing well, which typically reflects the founder’s particular strength—usually in journalism or technology [...] Most media outlets we found are small, run by a few full-time staff supplemented by volunteers and freelancers, and supported by a combination of grants, donations and haphazard business endeavors. The leaders at most organizations we interviewed were motivated by a desire to produce high-quality journalism rather than meet particular financial or audience goals." (Executive summary, page 5-7) more

Journalism: Principles and Practice
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Tony Harcup

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2015), 271 pp.

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Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
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Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2015), xviii, 486 pp.

"The study of Chinese media is a field that is growing and evolving at an exponential rate. Not only are the Chinese media a fascinating subject for analysis in their own right, but they also offer scholars and students a window to observe multi-directional flows of information, culture and communic ... more

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Wandel im Journalismus autoritärer Regime: Das Beispiel Jordanien

Judith Pies

Bielefeld: transcript (2015), 415 pp.

"Wie verändert sich Journalismus in autoritären Regimen angesichts technischer, wirtschaftlicher und politischer Entwicklungen? Inwieweit können Medienakteure Wandel anstoßen? Mit welchen Mitteln versucht das Regime, steuernd einzugreifen? Judith Pies beantwortet diese Fragen anhand einer detail ... more

Journalism Under Pressure: The Case of Kosovo

Kenneth Andresen

Oslo: University of Oslo, Doctoral Thesis (2015), xvi, 221 pp.

"Using Kosovo as its case, this dissertation discusses links between journalism’s historical development, daily practice and potential in a post-war society. In theory on media in post-communist Eastern Europe, journalists and editors are criticized for being unprofessional and for not contributin ... more

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Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach

Shelton A. Gunaratne, Mark Pearson, Sugath Senarath (eds.)

New York et al.: Routledge (2015), viii, 239 pp.

"This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "mindful journalism"-drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles-as a fresh approach to journalism ethics. It suggests that Buddhist mindfulness strategies can be applied purposively in journalism to add clarity, fairness and equity to news ... more

The Dragon's Voice: How Modern Media Found Bhutan

Bunty Avieson

St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, updated ed. (2015), 227 pp.

"In The Dragon's Voice, Australian journalist Bunty Avieson provides a glimpse of life beyond the country's exotic exterior. As a consultant to local newspaper Bhutan Observer, she admires the paper's strong social conscience, but finds her expectations challenged in a country where spirituality and ... more

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