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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Future of Television in the Global South; Reflections from Selected Countries37
Siphiwe Mpye: Black Empowerment Through the Eyes of an Earnest Editor25
Teaching Tech by Rote: Socialization into Digital Literacies in a Ghanaian Classroom11
Radio and Social Media as A Two-Way Communication Tool in Conflict- and Pandemic-Affected Communities in Burkina Faso11
Exploring Journalists’ Organizational Working Perceptions in the Ethiopian Local Media: A Focus on Amhara Media Corporation11
Out of Frame: Invisibilisation of Non-Human Nature in Media Framing of a Land Conflict Transformation Policy in Nigeria11
Political Economy, Ethnocentrism and big Brother Mentality in Framing Xenophobia: South African, Zimbabwean and Nigerian Newspapers10
Media Framing of the First Administration of Devolution in Kenya9
Sustainability of Select Indigenous-Language Newspapers Through Advertising in Nigeria: Appraising the Success of Alaroye and Aminiya News9
Gatekeeping Rape Culture: Kenyan News Coverage of Sexual Abuse and Femicide9
Newsroom Disruptions and Opportunities in Times of Crisis: Analysing Southern African Media During the COVID-19 Crisis7
Making News Outside Legacy Media6
Digital Newspaper and Journalism Practices in Tanzania: What Are Journalists’ Perspectives?6
Digital Media Literacy in Africa: Towards a Research Agenda5
Solutions Journalism as a Tool to Erode Polarisation in the Media and Society4
Media Representation of Youth (-Driven) Innovation Initiatives in Kenya4
African women in digital spaces: redefining social movements on the continent and in the diaspora4
Digital Political Literacy? How Three Community-Based Organisations in Inner-City Johannesburg Miss the Mark on Social Media4
“We Are All Migrants”: Ideological Construction of Xenophobia in Nigerian and South African Newspaper Reports4
Making News with the Citizens! Audience Participation and News-making Practices at the AMH Group4
Children and Young People’s Digital Lifeworlds: Domestication, Mediation, and Agency4
Decolonising journalism education: critical perspectives4
African Journalism Education Reimagined Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic: Aftershocks and Seismic Shifts3
Special Online Article Collection3
Mediatization and Politics in Nigeria: A Review3
Technology Innovation and Digital Journalism Practice by Indigenous African-language Newspapers: The Case of uMthunywa in Zimbabwe3
Media and Election Monitoring in Africa: Evolving Mechanisms for the 2016 and 2020 Elections in Ghana2
Stewards or Manipulators? Knowledge Brokers’ Complex Positionality in Combating the COVID-19 Infodemic in Malawi2
The Environment of South African Journalism: Are Mainstream Media Organisations Listening to Activists?2
Indigenous-language Media Research in Africa: Gains, Losses, Towards a New Research Agenda2
Zimbabwean News Media’s Framing of Coal-Fired Power Plants2
The Role of Photography in Communicating Climate Change in Zimbabwe2
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice Towards COVID-19 Prevention Messages on Media in North-West, Nigeria2
Subverting Journalistic Routines: When Political Satire Intervenes to Challenge Public Broadcasting National Discourses2
Cynical or Critical Media Consumers? Exploring the Misinformation Literacy Needs of South African Youth2
Digital Literacy in Africa: Exploring its Relationship with Infrastructure, Policy, and Social Inequality1
Watchdog or Lapdog? South African Broadcasting Corporation News in the Coverage of the 2021 Local Government Elections1
The Mediatization of Politics in Cameroon: A Political Actor-Centric Approach1
Pernicious Polarization, Journalistic Professionalization, and Interpretive Community Structures Beyond Liberal Democracies: A Case of Zimbabwe1
“I’m Described as Good Journalist Because I Am ‘Tough’”: How Femininity Is Still Considered a Weakness in Zimbabwean Newsrooms1
Misinformation Literacy of COVID-19 Digital News in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda1
Exploring Trust/Mistrust in Journalistic Practice: An Actor-network Analysis of a Kenyan Newsroom1
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 Zimbabwe1
Participatory Journalism in Africa: Digital News Engagement and User Agency in the South1
TV Portrayal and People’s Perceptions on Indigenous Environmental Conservation in Kenya1
“Meaning in the Service of Power”: A Marxist Analysis of Media Discourse on Presidential Elections in South Africa1
Media Literacy and Fact-Checking as Proactive and Reactive Responses to Misinformation in Kenya and Senegal1
Analysing Discourse-Stylistics on Peripheral Journalism Platforms: A Context of Indigenous Language News Outlets on Facebook0
Decoloniality and Language Policy for Journalism Education in Mauritius. A Post-Covid Analysis0
The Incompleteness of Knowledge Production: An Interview with Francis Nyamnjoh0
Media Coverage of Women’s Involvement in the #EndSARS Protest Movement in Nigeria0
Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict0
Journalistic Storytelling for Social Justice: A CDA of Global News Coverage of the Otodo Gbame Forced Evictions in Nigeria0
Correction0
“When One Finger Picks Oil, It Reaches Others”: An Examination of Nigerian Journalists’ Perspective on Motivations for Online Harassment0
“Fake News” and Multiple Regimes of “Truth” During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe0
Frames and Marginalisation of Counter-hegemonic Voices: Media Representation of the Land Debate in South Africa0
Fighting Fake News Proliferation Through Digital Literacy in Africa: Perspectives from Nigerian Netizens0
The Influence of Dedicated Fact-Checking on Journalism Practice in South Africa0
“Playing” in the Eyes of the Ferret Team: Examining the Use of Surveillance Strategies by Zimbabwean Journalists0
Journalism and the Representation of Truth in the Nigerian Postcolonial Literature0
Code Mixing inKwayedza: Language Subversion and the Existence of African Language Newspapers0
Network Flow of Campaign Discourses and News Frames: The Changing Fortunes of Twitter/X as a Conduit for Frame-Building0
Being a Journalist in North Kivu Province, DRC: Negotiating Professional Boundaries with International Development Actors0
What is News? A Young Peoples’ Perspective in Kenya0
Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: An Agenda for Journalism Research in Africa0
Media Literacy's Role in Democratic Engagement and Societal Transformation among University Students0
The Rise of Peripheral Actors in Media Regulation in South Africa: An Entry of Social Media Mob(s)0
Media, ethnicity, and electoral conflicts in Kenya0
(Life) Lessons beyond the Lecture Hall: Alumni Reflections on Their Work-Readiness after Completing a South African Postgraduate Journalism Degree0
Towards a Converged Post-Covid Journalism Training in Africa: A Case Study of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini0
Global–Local Dynamics and Transformative Approaches in Climate Change Reporting in MENA: Insights from Tunisian Journalists0
The Robot's “Myths of Nature”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Twitter Social Bots Discussing Climate Change in Africa0
Reimagining Through Crisis: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed the Fortunes and Futures of Journalism Schools and Graduates0
The Practice of Citizen Journalism at Kibera News Network0
Media and Politics of Representation: A Critical Decolonial Analysis of the Protests Against Addis Ababa’s Integrated Master Plan0
Becoming a Journalist: Experiences of Trainee Journalists in Zimbabwe0
The Message, the Medium and the Means of Argumentation: Towards a More Holistic Approach to the Rhetorical Criticism of Television News Reports0
The Fourth Estate in Ghana’s Fourth Republic: From “Culture of Silence” to Fake News and Post-Truth Politics0
Fact-checking the COVID-19 Infodemic in Sub-Saharan Africa0
Humanitarian journalists: covering crises from a boundary zone0
Public Support for Local and Community Media in Three Countries: A Comparative Study0
Mixing “Nonsense with Substance”: Negotiating Satirical and Investigative Journalism Hybrid Genre in Nigeria0
Towards a Journalism for Justice: A Normative Overture0
In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa0
Obituary: Arnold (Arrie) Stephanus de Beer. A Man with a Plan0
Correction0
Teaching Entrepreneurial Journalism: A Comparative Assessment of Zimbabwe and the United States0
Layered Environmental Discourses: Media Representations of Transnational Extractivism in Zimbabwe0
“The New Sheriffs in Town”! Newspapers Visibility of Kenya’s First County Governors0
Access to Digital Media and Digital Literacy among Ghanaian Youth: An Explore, Engage, Empower Model Study0
From the Classroom to the African Newsroom: How Journalism Education Can Bridge the Gap between the Classroom and the Shrinking Newsroom0
The Sociotechnical Dynamics of Virtual Work-Integrated Learning in Journalism Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Through the Media Looking Glass: Journalists’ Perceptions on South Africa’s Funded Environmental Journalism0
African language media0
Public Perceptions of the Media Channels and Human Sources of Information about the COVID-19 Vaccine in Malawi0
Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa0
Demographic Differences in Digital News Literacy in East Africa0
Covering COVID-19 in the Global South: Political Position-Taking among Ugandan Journalists0
Does Black Economic Empowerment Ownership Matter? A Decolonial Analysis of “Black Visibility” in South Africa’s Print Media Content, 1994–20140
News in the Digital Age: A Case Study of CITE as a Digital Public Sphere in Zimbabwe0
Reporting Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis in a Hybrid Media Environment: How Citizen Journalists and Traditional Media Collaborate and Compete0
Climate Justice and Other News Frames in the Coverage of Climate Change in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa0
Searching for a New Kenya: politics and social media on the streets of Mombasa0
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