African Journalism Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of African Journalism Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Subordinating Freedom of Expression to Human Dignity: Promoting or Undermining Journalism—A Case of Zimbabwe24
Layered Environmental Discourses: Media Representations of Transnational Extractivism in Zimbabwe18
Children and Young People’s Digital Lifeworlds: Domestication, Mediation, and Agency12
Teaching Entrepreneurial Journalism: A Comparative Assessment of Zimbabwe and the United States9
Music and messaging in the African political arena9
Code Mixing inKwayedza: Language Subversion and the Existence of African Language Newspapers8
News in the Digital Age: A Case Study of CITE as a Digital Public Sphere in Zimbabwe8
Exploring Journalists’ Organizational Working Perceptions in the Ethiopian Local Media: A Focus on Amhara Media Corporation8
Does Black Economic Empowerment Ownership Matter? A Decolonial Analysis of “Black Visibility” in South Africa’s Print Media Content, 1994–20148
Humanitarian journalists: covering crises from a boundary zone7
Digital Political Literacy? How Three Community-Based Organisations in Inner-City Johannesburg Miss the Mark on Social Media7
Some Random Thoughts on the South African Communication Association7
Fact-checking the COVID-19 Infodemic in Sub-Saharan Africa7
Siphiwe Mpye: Black Empowerment Through the Eyes of an Earnest Editor6
Global–Local Dynamics and Transformative Approaches in Climate Change Reporting in MENA: Insights from Tunisian Journalists5
The Role of Photography in Communicating Climate Change in Zimbabwe5
The Future of Television in the Global South; Reflections from Selected Countries5
African Journalism Studies: Mapping four Decades of African Journalism and Media Research4
Cynical or Critical Media Consumers? Exploring the Misinformation Literacy Needs of South African Youth4
Tabloid journalism in Africa4
Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict4
Political Economy, Ethnocentrism and big Brother Mentality in Framing Xenophobia: South African, Zimbabwean and Nigerian Newspapers4
Mediatization and Politics in Nigeria: A Review3
The Influence of Dedicated Fact-Checking on Journalism Practice in South Africa3
Analysing Discourse-Stylistics on Peripheral Journalism Platforms: A Context of Indigenous Language News Outlets on Facebook3
African language digital media and communication3
The Sociotechnical Dynamics of Virtual Work-Integrated Learning in Journalism Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic2
The Practice of Citizen Journalism at Kibera News Network2
The Rise of Peripheral Actors in Media Regulation in South Africa: An Entry of Social Media Mob(s)2
Teaching Tech by Rote: Socialization into Digital Literacies in a Ghanaian Classroom2
Ecological Civilisation Discourse in Xinhua’s African Newswires: Towards a Greener Agency?2
“Fake News” and Multiple Regimes of “Truth” During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe2
Radio and Social Media as A Two-Way Communication Tool in Conflict- and Pandemic-Affected Communities in Burkina Faso2
Media, ethnicity, and electoral conflicts in Kenya2
Journalism and the Representation of Truth in the Nigerian Postcolonial Literature2
Ideal Victims and Familiar Strangers: Non-Intimate Femicide in South African News Media2
“What is the News About Journalism?” An Interview with Arnold S. de Beer1
Natural Disaster or Crime? The Struggle between Mainstream Media and Facebook in Discursive Deletion of Responsibility from Environmental Crimes1
Reporting Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis in a Hybrid Media Environment: How Citizen Journalists and Traditional Media Collaborate and Compete1
Becoming a Journalist: Experiences of Trainee Journalists in Zimbabwe1
Misinformation Literacy of COVID-19 Digital News in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda1
Gatekeeping Rape Culture: Kenyan News Coverage of Sexual Abuse and Femicide1
Partners or Predators? A Corpus-Based Study of China’s Image in South African Media1
“Playing” in the Eyes of the Ferret Team: Examining the Use of Surveillance Strategies by Zimbabwean Journalists1
Participatory Journalism in Africa: Digital News Engagement and User Agency in the South1
Watchdog or Lapdog? South African Broadcasting Corporation News in the Coverage of the 2021 Local Government Elections1
Public Support for Local and Community Media in Three Countries: A Comparative Study1
Decoloniality and Language Policy for Journalism Education in Mauritius. A Post-Covid Analysis1
Media Framing of the First Administration of Devolution in Kenya1
The Historicity of Media Regulation in Zambia; Examining the Proposed Statutory Self-Regulation1
Exploring Trust/Mistrust in Journalistic Practice: An Actor-network Analysis of a Kenyan Newsroom1
Digital Literacy in Africa: Exploring its Relationship with Infrastructure, Policy, and Social Inequality1
The Fourth Estate in Ghana’s Fourth Republic: From “Culture of Silence” to Fake News and Post-Truth Politics1
Out of Frame: Invisibilisation of Non-Human Nature in Media Framing of a Land Conflict Transformation Policy in Nigeria1
“I’m Described as Good Journalist Because I Am ‘Tough’”: How Femininity Is Still Considered a Weakness in Zimbabwean Newsrooms1
(Life) Lessons beyond the Lecture Hall: Alumni Reflections on Their Work-Readiness after Completing a South African Postgraduate Journalism Degree0
Competing or Complimentary Actors in the Journalistic Field? An Analysis of the Mediation of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Mainstream and Peripheral Content Creators in Zimbabwe0
Media Literacy's Role in Democratic Engagement and Societal Transformation among University Students0
What is News? A Young Peoples’ Perspective in Kenya0
Network Flow of Campaign Discourses and News Frames: The Changing Fortunes of Twitter/X as a Conduit for Frame-Building0
Demographic Differences in Digital News Literacy in East Africa0
Pɔhim Zuɣu: Understanding Indigenous Language News Audiences in Ghana0
Mixing “Nonsense with Substance”: Negotiating Satirical and Investigative Journalism Hybrid Genre in Nigeria0
The Incompleteness of Knowledge Production: An Interview with Francis Nyamnjoh0
Subverting Journalistic Routines: When Political Satire Intervenes to Challenge Public Broadcasting National Discourses0
Access to Digital Media and Digital Literacy among Ghanaian Youth: An Explore, Engage, Empower Model Study0
Media and Election Monitoring in Africa: Evolving Mechanisms for the 2016 and 2020 Elections in Ghana0
Zimbabwean News Media’s Framing of Coal-Fired Power Plants0
Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: An Agenda for Journalism Research in Africa0
Through the Media Looking Glass: Journalists’ Perceptions on South Africa’s Funded Environmental Journalism0
Indigenous-language Media Research in Africa: Gains, Losses, Towards a New Research Agenda0
“When One Finger Picks Oil, It Reaches Others”: An Examination of Nigerian Journalists’ Perspective on Motivations for Online Harassment0
Covering COVID-19 in the Global South: Political Position-Taking among Ugandan Journalists0
Sustainability of Select Indigenous-Language Newspapers Through Advertising in Nigeria: Appraising the Success of Alaroye and Aminiya News0
The Environment of South African Journalism: Are Mainstream Media Organisations Listening to Activists?0
Media Literacy and Fact-Checking as Proactive and Reactive Responses to Misinformation in Kenya and Senegal0
Decolonising journalism education: critical perspectives0
The Mediatization of Politics in Cameroon: A Political Actor-Centric Approach0
“The New Sheriffs in Town”! Newspapers Visibility of Kenya’s First County Governors0
Digital Media Literacy in Africa: Towards a Research Agenda0
How Government Responses to Misinformation in Africa Restrict Freedom of Expression and Do Little to Tackle the Problem0
Through the Lens of a Camera: Photojournalism and the Crises of Zimbabwe’s “Second Republic”0
Searching for a New Kenya: politics and social media on the streets of Mombasa0
Media Coverage of Women’s Involvement in the #EndSARS Protest Movement in Nigeria0
The Message, the Medium and the Means of Argumentation: Towards a More Holistic Approach to the Rhetorical Criticism of Television News Reports0
Fighting Fake News Proliferation Through Digital Literacy in Africa: Perspectives from Nigerian Netizens0
Paradigm Shift in the Work of Arnold de Beer and Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies (1980–2020)0
Digital Newspaper and Journalism Practices in Tanzania: What Are Journalists’ Perspectives?0
Media and Politics of Representation: A Critical Decolonial Analysis of the Protests Against Addis Ababa’s Integrated Master Plan0
Newsroom Disruptions and Opportunities in Times of Crisis: Analysing Southern African Media During the COVID-19 Crisis0
African language media0
Pernicious Polarization, Journalistic Professionalization, and Interpretive Community Structures Beyond Liberal Democracies: A Case of Zimbabwe0
African women in digital spaces: redefining social movements on the continent and in the diaspora0
Propositions for Decolonising African Journalism and Media Research0
Public Perceptions of the Media Channels and Human Sources of Information about the COVID-19 Vaccine in Malawi0
Data Journalism Practice in Sub-Saharan African Media Systems: A Cross-National Survey of Journalists’ Perceptions in Zambia and Tanzania0
From the Classroom to the African Newsroom: How Journalism Education Can Bridge the Gap between the Classroom and the Shrinking Newsroom0
Journalism, the Coming of Television, and the New South Africa0
Correction0
Obituary: Arnold (Arrie) Stephanus de Beer. A Man with a Plan0
Journalistic Storytelling for Social Justice: A CDA of Global News Coverage of the Otodo Gbame Forced Evictions in Nigeria0
Being a Journalist in North Kivu Province, DRC: Negotiating Professional Boundaries with International Development Actors0
Solutions Journalism as a Tool to Erode Polarisation in the Media and Society0
Making News with the Citizens! Audience Participation and News-making Practices at the AMH Group0
Stewards or Manipulators? Knowledge Brokers’ Complex Positionality in Combating the COVID-19 Infodemic in Malawi0
Climate Justice and Other News Frames in the Coverage of Climate Change in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa0
The (Other) Anglophone Problem: Charting the Development of a Journalism Subfield0
Towards a Journalism for Justice: A Normative Overture0
Reimagining Through Crisis: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed the Fortunes and Futures of Journalism Schools and Graduates0
Making News Outside Legacy Media0
Towards a Converged Post-Covid Journalism Training in Africa: A Case Study of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini0
Technology Innovation and Digital Journalism Practice by Indigenous African-language Newspapers: The Case of uMthunywa in Zimbabwe0
Fighting for the Man in the Blue Overalls—Daily Sun as a Project in Demarginalisation0
African Journalism Education Reimagined Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic: Aftershocks and Seismic Shifts0
Correction0
Frames and Marginalisation of Counter-hegemonic Voices: Media Representation of the Land Debate in South Africa0
Towards a Decolonised South African Journalism History0
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