Chikaire Ezeru's Accepted Article on The Continued Domination of Western Journalists in Global African News Telling - The Imperatives and Implications.pdf (227.55 kB)
The continued domination of Western journalists in Global African news telling: The imperatives and implications
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posted on 2021-03-16, 13:48 authored by Chikaire EzeruWho reports Africa in the British press? This longitudinal study is aimed at addressing this issue. It
applied content analysis methodology, the use of four British national newspapers and a sample
duration that spanned between 1992 and 2017. It uncovered that Western journalists consistently
dominated the reportage of Africa without any exception throughout the sample period. Apart from
Western journalists, other journalists or sources involved in the media coverage - African local
journalists, Afro-Western journalists, joint journalists, and news agencies’ African reports were
insignificantly used. Also, this study further revealed that the use of news agencies’ African reports
had a continuous decline from 1997 to 2017. Therefore, the domination of the British press coverage
of Africa over the years by Western journalists results in the portrayal of Africa from an imbalanced
single prism of Westernised perspective, thereby resulting in the likelihood of the poor coverage of
Africa and the spread of further ignorance of the continent to the global audience, which hampers
both tourism and Western business investments to Africa. This study concludes that who reports
Africa in the UK press is embedded in neo-colonialism, white hegemony, and inequality.
History
School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- Communication and Media
Published in
African Journalism StudiesVolume
42Issue
1Pages
36-55Publisher
Informa UK LimitedVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in African Journalism Studies on 04 Mar 2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1886961Acceptance date
2021-02-03Publication date
2021-03-04Copyright date
2021ISSN
2374-3670eISSN
2374-3689Publisher version
Language
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