Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2022.2096090
Prinola Govenden
ABSTRACT Ownership is identified as one of the major factors that influence the production of news. South Africa’s print media transformation situation presents an important Global South case study for journalism debates about ownership effects on news. The country’s media transformation agenda is based on the premise that transformation of ownership will automatically lead to a transformation of content on these levels. This study empirically examines whether the racial changes in print media ownership facilitated by black economic empowerment in the first 20 years of South Africa’s democracy (1994–2014) led to transformation of content with a focus on racial stereotypes of blackness. It conducts a decolonial analysis of the representation of blackness in three issues that have framed post-apartheid South Africa: socioeconomic rights; labour issues and protests; black government vs. big business or “white economic elite”. The findings show that despite an increase in black ownership, “inferential racism” of blackness pervades content. The nature of representation also coincides with decolonial theory’s concept of “non-being” and its enunciation of the colonised subject being the “damned of the earth”, in the near invisibility of black people’s struggles, hypervisibility of black leadership shortcomings, and in the depiction of protestors as inherently violent, disorderly, deviants, and criminals. The study concludes that in the case of South Africa ownership does not matter, a change from white ownership to considerable black ownership since 1994 did not significantly “transform” historical racist tropes of blackness in content.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2022.2071961
Albert Chibuwe, Allen Munoriyarwa, Gilbert Motsaathebe, S. Chiumbu, William O. Lesitaokana
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging the world has brought massive disruptions to every facet of life. However, a crisis can present revolutionary change and growth opportunities for both individuals and institutions. This study is a cross-country study that examines the disruptions and opportunities that the pandemic has wrought to mainstream news reporting practices. Utilising data from Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, we seek to answer the question: in what ways did the pandemic disrupt news production, and what opportunities to the mainstream media did the pandemic open? To answer this question, we utilise in-depth interviews with practising journalists and draw on the interaction of Schudson‘s sociological view of news production and Bourdieu‘s field theory. We note that the pandemic disrupted news sourcing routines in ways that compromised the quality of news production. Paradoxically, amidst this disruption, we notice that media–state relations and trust in mainstream media improved dramatically. This makes us argue that the pandemic represented an opportunity for mainstream media to “reset” their existential purpose, considering how they revitalised their relations and how they reclaimed declining trust in them. We conclude that COVID-19 may have breathed a new lease of life into a declining journalism industry.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2022.2033289
Mandla J. Radebe, S. Chiumbu
ABSTRACT The South African commercial press marginalises alternative and counter-hegemonic voices partly due to its location in the capitalist power structures. Notwithstanding its transformation post-apartheid, the ethos of this media remains rooted in apartheid-like economic and ideological rationalities. This media still functions within Western news values and a neoliberal paradigm; hence, the reporting of ideological discourses delegitimises the concerns of the dispossessed. This paper uses the critical political economy of the media in conversation with decolonial theories to analyse the media’s representation of the land debate by assessing economic and political interrelations that shape its structures and practice. Stories in the South African English-language print media in 2018 are analysed using thematic and framing approaches. It emerges that the land debate is framed negatively. The media employed a narrow neoliberal frame in the stories and thus failed to support a legitimate discourse. Instead, the media gave voice to individuals located in capitalist production structures who defended the status quo.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2021.2009000
L. Tshuma, M. Msimanga, M. N. Sibanda
ABSTRACT The Zimbabwean state has in recent years stepped up its surveillance efforts on citizens, civil society and journalists who are viewed as the “enemies of the state”. This state surveillance has been argued to infringe on citizens’ right to privacy and access to information. We are mindful that the “Second Republic” or the “New Dispensation” government has invested heavily in surveillance to silence its critics, among them activists, opposition leaders and journalists. Based on this, the study critically examines the use of surveillance strategies by Zimbabwean journalists and assesses the challenges and opportunities. The study uses in-depth interviews with selected journalists from Zimpapers, Alpha Media Holdings and freelance journalists around the country. The data show that journalists in Zimbabwe use different surveillance strategies, while some are benefiting from state sources for surveillance. Journalists further indicated that they live in fear of the state, which tracks them down. As a result, however, journalists have resorted to various means of security, which include “hunting in packs” and deploying digital security strategies. Findings further demonstrate that newsrooms are poorly equipped with technology for surveillance.
摘要近年来，津巴布韦政府加大了对被视为“国家敌人”的公民、民间社会和记者的监视力度。这种国家监控被认为侵犯了公民的隐私权和获取信息的权利。我们注意到，“第二共和国”或“新豁免”政府在监视方面投入了大量资金，以压制其批评者，其中包括活动家、反对派领导人和记者。基于此，该研究批判性地考察了津巴布韦记者使用监控策略的情况，并评估了其中的挑战和机遇。这项研究对Zimpanies、Alpha Media Holdings和全国各地的自由记者进行了深入采访。数据显示，津巴布韦的记者使用不同的监视策略，而一些记者则从国家来源的监视中受益。记者们进一步表示，他们生活在对追踪他们的国家的恐惧中。然而，因此，记者们采取了各种安全手段，包括“打包狩猎”和部署数字安全策略。调查结果进一步表明，新闻编辑室缺乏监控技术。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2022.2044877
Danford Zirugo
ABSTRACT Using textual analysis, this study compares and contrasts how newspapers from Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa—countries at the centre of the September 2019 xenophobic attacks in South Africa—under different ownership patterns defined the problem of xenophobia, its causes and solutions. Understanding how xenophobia was framed is important, for it has implications on policy formulations in dealing with immigration. The study finds that although there were common frames across the newspapers, there were also significant differences between newspapers from sending and receiving countries. Privately controlled newspapers also framed the crisis differently as compared to government or publicly controlled newspapers.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2021.2004436
Jimmy Ochieng, K. Ireri
ABSTRACT Content-analysing 2794 news stories in four national newspapers, the present study examines variables that predicted the coverage of 47 county governors between 2013 and 2017—the first term of Kenya’s devolved system of governance. Findings show that variables related to coverage as a “mirror of political reality” are the main predictors of the governors’ visibility in the newspapers news. To be specific, commenting on the topics of devolution and corruption are the strongest predictors, followed by criticizing the national government. County size (an institutional characteristic related to coverage based on news values) is also a predictor, although not as strong as devolution, corruption and criticizing the central government.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2021.2009533
Phillip Santos, Khulekani Ndlovu
ABSTRACT In thinking about how African journalism can serve society better, one has to pay attention to the moment in which humanity finds itself today. Arguably one of the most exigent issues in contemporary society is that of social justice, whose dimensions have been exposed by the denudational forces of an equally potent malignant force, the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the crucial role of the media as a vector of social change, an appraisal of contemporary journalisms’ potency in fostering the transformation of society towards a just configuration is imperative. This article argues that the limitations of the morally indifferent objectivist journalism and the parochial focus of “corrective journalisms” are not adequate to meet the demands of multidimensional and imbricated justice questions in contemporary society. Drawing on both Fraser’s Justice Theory and Crenshaw’s Intersectional Theory as well as an empirical institutional analysis of the online journalism platforms New Frame and The Conversation Africa, this article argues that a journalism that is oriented towards justice would provide the optimum tools for nuanced discourses on extant, emerging and imbricated questions of social justice at both the local and international levels.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2022.2044876
Christian Nounkeu Tatchou
ABSTRACT This article examines the connection between political parties’ perceptions of the importance of news media as source of political information, and the extent to which they adapt their communications to the standards, routines, formats and logic of the news media in Cameroon. This, with the objective of being attractive to the news media and gain coverage. The contextual focus of the study is the 2018 presidential election campaign in Cameroon. Theoretically, the study is guided by the mediatization of politics hypothesis. Empirically, it utilizes in-depth interviews with spokespersons of political parties which presented candidates to the election. The findings show that most parties cared very little about adapting their campaign communications to the news media logic, because they believe the news media in Cameroon have a negligible significance for election performance. Instead, political parties largely focalized their strategies on oral face-to-face rallies and door-to-door canvassing, which they perceive as more effective and efficient for reaching the electorate.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2021.1999840
Ammina Kothari, Sally Ann Cruikshank
ABSTRACT Globally, newsrooms are adopting various forms of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of the newsgathering, production and distribution process. Western countries and China, in particular, are leading the innovation of AI in newsrooms—testing technologies that include machine learning, automated content creation and moderation and speech-to-text programs. The adoption of AI in newsrooms, and research of its impact, has predominantly focused on Western countries. Although some African countries have begun incorporating AI into sectors such as government agencies, health, education and finance, little information exists about how newsrooms on the continent are using AI technologies. In this paper, we propose a research agenda to advance the scholarship and understanding of the use of AI in African newsrooms and its implications for journalism in Africa. Through a systematic search of databases, we examine the current use of AI in newsrooms in Africa, along with a review of the opportunities and challenges it presents for journalists. We also present a comprehensive examination and discussion about the theoretical frameworks being used to examine newsroom processes—and the opportunities to adapt those theories to analyse the use of AI in African-led scholarship. Also included in the study are recommendations for addressing methodological challenges related to the use of AI in newsrooms.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-25DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2021.1998787
T. Tshabangu, A. Salawu
ABSTRACT Research on indigenous-language media in Africa is often neglected for several reasons, such as an obsession with research on mainstream media that uses colonial languages of English, French and Portuguese and a general lack of scholarly interest. This semi-systematic review paper looks at the research trajectory of the last two decades, identifying gaps and proposing a new research agenda. Available research conducted from a cultural studies and critical theory perspective reveals the intersection of indigenous-language media with gender and health communication; democracy and development; economics and management; and digitalisation. A broadened new research agenda that follows the critical theory tradition is proposed to critique the dominance of mainstream media together with a decolonial reform agenda that appreciates the importance of indigenous-language media in Africa. Research highlighting new case studies, representations, audiences, business models, innovation and digital journalism by indigenous-language media is proposed.
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