"During the years of Ba'athist dictator Saddam Hussein, media personnel were under tight control and tortured or executed when they strayed from the government line. In the decade following the fall of the Ba'athist regime, thousands of Iraqi journalists were trained in liberal democratic profession
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al norms, and hundreds of news outlets opened even as some of the old patronage practices and violence continued. This study utilized Shoemaker and Reese's hierarchy of influences model to examine factors influencing a proxy indicator for professional ethics, the value of conflict of interest avoidance among a purposive sample of Iraqi journalists (N = 588). We found that the news media routines and ideological levels, though not strong, had the greatest influences on this conflict of interest avoidance perception criterion indicator, the proxy for professional ethics. The findings suggest a tension between liberal democratic journalism training at the routines level and ideological aspects, in some cases, such as ethnic identity and political ideology. Strong influences on perceptions of conflict of interest avoidance were the type of media platform/Western journalism training, Arab ethnicity over Kurdish ethnicity, ideology of "democrat" over Kurdish nationalist or Islamist. No influence was apparent for Internet use frequency or state versus nonstate media." (Abstract)
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"Through an ethnography of English and Kannada print news media in Bangalore, this ambitious and innovative new study reveals how the expanding private news culture played a critical role in shaping urban transformation in India, when the allegedly public profession of journalism became both an obje
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ct and agent of global urbanization. Building on extensive fieldwork carried out with the Times of India group, the largest media house in India, between 2008-2012, Sahana Udupa argues that the class project of the 'global city' news discourse came into striking conflict with the cultural logics of regional language and caste practices." (Publisher description)
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"Dieses Buch führt in das journalistische Handwerk ein. Seine hohe Praxisorientierung mit vielen Tipps und Arbeitsbeispielen macht es auch für etablierte Journalisten interessant – zum Durchblättern, Nachschlagen, als Arbeitshilfe. Hier wird alles erklärt, was ein guter Journalist können und
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wissen muss: so schreibt man gut; so recherchiert man; so formuliert man Überschriften; so führt man Interviews; so präsentiert man sich und seine journalistischen Arbeiten; so funktionieren Print- und Online-Journalismus. Henning Noskes „Lese- und Lernbuch“ ist ein anderes Journalismus-Buch, das aus dem Alltag und im Alltag einer Redaktion entstanden ist. Noskes journalistische Alltags-Erfahrungen prägen das Buch: Sie geben dem erfahrenen Redakteur Stoff, seine Routinen zu überprüfen, und dem Anfänger die Hilfe, die er für seine Entscheidung braucht, den Beruf zu erlernen. Viele Medien-Karrieren beginnen im Lokalen. Daher ist die neue Auflage des Buches um ein Kapitel zum Lokaljournalismus erweitert worden." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This book makes a new and significant argument that Indian news media are no longer just observers but active participants in the events that direct the nation. It explores the changing role and performance of Indian news media in the past 25 years by examining their coverage of some of the landmar
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k events and issues within the context of the India's ‘globalising’ polity, increased privatisation, new communication technologies and the rise of individualism. The challenges of globalisation have resulted in significant changes in news processes and procedures, which this volume details by scrutinising the media's reportage of several events and issues, such as anti-graft movement, paid news, sting journalism, 24-hour news and coverage of terrorism and politics—media nexus." (Publisher description)
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"Much research implicitly suggests that journalism values arise from culturally removed organizational structures or shared occupational training and few studies examine the perspective of journalism from both audiences and journalists. These omissions are important given the essentiality of mutuall
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y constructed and culturally embedded normative behaviors within journalism. This research examines audiences and journalists in Samoa, a recently independent, postcolonial country that relies upon a very traditional, shared national identity for its relatively nascent cohesion. This study aims to gain a better understanding of how local culture can set parameters and expectations for journalism; how journalists negotiate culture into their own professional ideology; and how audiences understand journalism within a cultural context." (Abstract)
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"This article considers whether thinking about journalism's present set of challenges is best served by the notion of “crisis.” It argues that adopting such a notion to explain a diverse set of technological, political, economic, social, occupational, moral, and legal circumstances misses an opp
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ortunity to recognize how contingent and differentiated the futures of journalism might be. It also raises critical questions about how institutions deal with uncertainty at their core, obscuring a fuller understanding of the permutations that get eclipsed by perceiving crisis as a unitary phenomenon." (Abstract)
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"Despite the generalizations and stereotypes that are often used to describe Africa in popular (and journalistic) discourses, the continent's diversity escapes easy categorization or glib narratives of either the 'Hopeless Continent' or 'Africa Rising' variety - the two poles between which the Econo
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mist's coverage has veered in recent years. Africa is a continent after all, not a country (as the blog www.africasacountry.com so splendidly keeps reminding us in its coverage of the variety of African media and culture). This variety applies to journalism on the continent as well. Africa's journalism is delivered across a wide range of platforms, from legacy media such as newspapers (which do not quite share the same rapid decline as their counterparts in the mediasaturated North) and radio (still the pervasive medium on the continent), to the citizen journalism found in the rapidly growing number of online and mobile platforms. This issue of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies includes research pertaining to the variety of platforms and practices of journalism in Africa, and how the media continue to evolve, merge and mutate." (Introduction)
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"Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance provides an overview of new and traditional media in their political, economic and cultural contexts while exploring the role of journalism practice and media education. The authors examine media systems in 16 countries, including China, Russia a
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nd the United States." (Publisher description)
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"News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries is based on ongoing research at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, and has investigated the rapidly changing nature of the news media in Arab countries. They have investigated the role of newspape
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rs and television in news provision and the impact of new media developments, most especially the emergence of the internet as a platform for news distribution and of international satellite television channels such as Al Jazeera. Examining the constantly developing nature of news, the collection contains separately authored chapters produced by the researchers responsible for each original analysis, covering Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates." (Publisher description)
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