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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Future of Television in the Global South; Reflections from Selected Countries12
Siphiwe Mpye: Black Empowerment Through the Eyes of an Earnest Editor10
Exploring Journalists’ Organizational Working Perceptions in the Ethiopian Local Media: A Focus on Amhara Media Corporation9
Teaching Tech by Rote: Socialization into Digital Literacies in a Ghanaian Classroom9
Out of Frame: Invisibilisation of Non-Human Nature in Media Framing of a Land Conflict Transformation Policy in Nigeria8
Radio and Social Media as A Two-Way Communication Tool in Conflict- and Pandemic-Affected Communities in Burkina Faso8
Media Framing of the First Administration of Devolution in Kenya7
Investigating the Phenomenon of “Reportreneurship”: Uncovering the Motivations, Ethics, and Impacts of Cash-for-news Coverage Practices in Nigerian Media6
Digital Newspaper and Journalism Practices in Tanzania: What Are Journalists’ Perspectives?6
Gatekeeping Rape Culture: Kenyan News Coverage of Sexual Abuse and Femicide6
Sustainability of Select Indigenous-Language Newspapers Through Advertising in Nigeria: Appraising the Success of Alaroye and Aminiya News6
Decolonising journalism education: critical perspectives5
Digital Media Literacy in Africa: Towards a Research Agenda5
African women in digital spaces: redefining social movements on the continent and in the diaspora5
“Proper and Mindful Use of GenAI Should be a Shared Goal”: Audience Perceptions of GenAI Adoption and Regulation in Kenyan Newsrooms4
Children and Young People’s Digital Lifeworlds: Domestication, Mediation, and Agency4
Decoding Contradictory Images: The Discursive Construction of Chinese National Oil Companies in Africa in African Media Coverage4
Media Representation of Youth (-Driven) Innovation Initiatives in Kenya4
Conflit armé, contraintes de production de l’information et « journalisme humanitaire » face au deuxième épisode du M23 au Nord-Kivu et au Sud-Kivu, RDC : le cas de Radio Maende4
Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression4
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
Mediatization and Politics in Nigeria: A Review3
African Journalism Education Reimagined Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic: Aftershocks and Seismic Shifts3
The Framing of Counter-Political Metaphors in Radio Freedom Songs: An Afrocentric Analysis3
The Africa Rising Discourse: Tropes, Trophies and Social Actors3
Special Online Article Collection2
Zimbabwean News Media’s Framing of Coal-Fired Power Plants2
Stewards or Manipulators? Knowledge Brokers’ Complex Positionality in Combating the COVID-19 Infodemic in Malawi2
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice Towards COVID-19 Prevention Messages on Media in North-West, Nigeria2
Cynical or Critical Media Consumers? Exploring the Misinformation Literacy Needs of South African Youth2
TV Portrayal and People’s Perceptions on Indigenous Environmental Conservation in Kenya2
Uptake and Sustainability of Fact-Checking Practice Beyond a Journalism Fellowship in West Africa2
Media and Election Monitoring in Africa: Evolving Mechanisms for the 2016 and 2020 Elections in Ghana2
The Environment of South African Journalism: Are Mainstream Media Organisations Listening to Activists?2
Renewed Perspectives on Media, Journalism and the Circulation of Knowledge in “Francophone” and “Anglophone” Africa2
Media Framing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)’s Agitation for the Restoration of Biafra in Two Nigerian Newspapers (2017–2022)1
The Role of Photography in Communicating Climate Change in Zimbabwe1
Misinformation Literacy of COVID-19 Digital News in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda1
Social Media, Socio-Technical Affordances and News Sourcing in Kenya’s Evolving Print Media1
“Meaning in the Service of Power”: A Marxist Analysis of Media Discourse on Presidential Elections in South Africa1
Access to Digital Media and Digital Literacy among Ghanaian Youth: An Explore, Engage, Empower Model Study1
Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News Landscape1
Social movements and digital activism in Africa1
Targeted in Platformed Spaces: Online Harassment and the Recalibration of Journalistic Role Conception in Kenya1
Reciprocal Journalism in the Mediated Public Sphere: Examining Op-Ed Debate in Ethiopian Media1
Digital Literacy in Africa: Exploring its Relationship with Infrastructure, Policy, and Social Inequality1
Towards a Converged Post-Covid Journalism Training in Africa: A Case Study of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini1
Pernicious Polarization, Journalistic Professionalization, and Interpretive Community Structures Beyond Liberal Democracies: A Case of Zimbabwe1
Sustainability Strategies of Digital Media Start-ups in Zimbabwe: Prospects and Challenges1
Investigative Journalism in the Nigerian Press: Strong Watchdogs, Weak Investigators?1
Journalism for People, for Elite: Redefining the Protest Paradigm Through the Lens of Peace-oriented Journalism1
Watchdog or Lapdog? South African Broadcasting Corporation News in the Coverage of the 2021 Local Government Elections1
The BBC’s Legacy in Africa: Continuities and Change1
Media Coverage of Women’s Involvement in the #EndSARS Protest Movement in Nigeria1
Silencing Dissent in Digital Kenya: State Strategies of Surveillance, Legal Harassment and the Illusion of Media Freedom0
Public Support for Local and Community Media in Three Countries: A Comparative Study0
Applying Virtue Ethics, in the Context of Ubuntu, to Soli in Ghana and Brown-Envelope Journalism in Africa0
Decoloniality and Language Policy for Journalism Education in Mauritius. A Post-Covid Analysis0
Representation of the Perceived Severity of Alcoholism in Vernacular Commercial Radio Messages Promoting Behaviour Change in Central Kenya0
Layered Environmental Discourses: Media Representations of Transnational Extractivism in Zimbabwe0
“When One Finger Picks Oil, It Reaches Others”: An Examination of Nigerian Journalists’ Perspective on Motivations for Online Harassment0
Environmental Journalism in the African Context: Continuity and Change0
Media and Politics of Representation: A Critical Decolonial Analysis of the Protests Against Addis Ababa’s Integrated Master Plan0
The Fourth Estate in Ghana’s Fourth Republic: From “Culture of Silence” to Fake News and Post-Truth Politics0
Public Perceptions of the Media Channels and Human Sources of Information about the COVID-19 Vaccine in Malawi0
Reporting on the Coronavirus Pandemic in Ghana: How Ghanaian Media Covered Covid-19 and Public Perceptions of How Media Reports Shaped Perceptions Towards the Pandemic0
Journalism Sustainability in the Digital Age: Application and Viability of Membership Business Model in Nigeria0
Network Flow of Campaign Discourses and News Frames: The Changing Fortunes of Twitter/X as a Conduit for Frame-Building0
Generative AI in African news media: opportunities and challenges; Critiquing generative AI in Africa’s media ecosystems0
Media Literacy's Role in Democratic Engagement and Societal Transformation among University Students0
Analysing Discourse-Stylistics on Peripheral Journalism Platforms: A Context of Indigenous Language News Outlets on Facebook0
Journalistic Storytelling for Social Justice: A CDA of Global News Coverage of the Otodo Gbame Forced Evictions in Nigeria0
Media Literacy and Fact-Checking as Proactive and Reactive Responses to Misinformation in Kenya and Senegal0
Fact-checking the COVID-19 Infodemic in Sub-Saharan Africa0
Reporting Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis in a Hybrid Media Environment: How Citizen Journalists and Traditional Media Collaborate and Compete0
Being a Journalist in North Kivu Province, DRC: Negotiating Professional Boundaries with International Development Actors0
The Influence of Dedicated Fact-Checking on Journalism Practice in South Africa0
African language media0
Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict0
Reconsidering the History of South African Journalism: The Ghost of the Slave Press0
Fighting Fake News Proliferation Through Digital Literacy in Africa: Perspectives from Nigerian Netizens0
A Frame Analysis of the Discursive Representation of Chinese Enterprises in African Newspapers0
S’inspirer du journalisme environnemental pour produire un podcast en Afrique : cas de « La fin du mois et la fin du monde »0
Correction0
Business News Coverage of COVID-19-induced Economic Shutdowns in South Africa and Zimbabwe: A Framing Analysis0
The Message, the Medium and the Means of Argumentation: Towards a More Holistic Approach to the Rhetorical Criticism of Television News Reports0
News Framing of Service Delivery Protests by the City Press in South Africa: 2005–20150
Climate Justice and Other News Frames in the Coverage of Climate Change in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa0
Correction0
In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa0
Journalism in Transition: Navigating Threats and Resilience in Ethiopia after the 2018 Political Reform0
Teaching Entrepreneurial Journalism: A Comparative Assessment of Zimbabwe and the United States0
Humanitarian journalists: covering crises from a boundary zone0
Breaking Barriers for Female Sports Journalists in Covering Sports in Tanzania0
Exploring a Practice-Oriented Methodology for Measuring News Media Quality in Tanzania0
The Sociotechnical Dynamics of Virtual Work-Integrated Learning in Journalism Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Framing Transit Migration: Media Discourses and Power in North Africa0
“You Cannot Sway Them with Logic”: Journalists’ Responses to Public Support for Censorship in Kenya0
The Robot's “Myths of Nature”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Twitter Social Bots Discussing Climate Change in Africa0
Press Freedom and Safety of Journalists in Africa: A Scoping Review0
Global–Local Dynamics and Transformative Approaches in Climate Change Reporting in MENA: Insights from Tunisian Journalists0
From the Classroom to the African Newsroom: How Journalism Education Can Bridge the Gap between the Classroom and the Shrinking Newsroom0
From Civic Consciousness to Social Accountability: Community Radio’s Role in Enhancing Local Governance Outcomes in Northern Ghana0
La résurgence du M23 dans l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo: Cadrage et récit médiatique d’un conflit armé sur Top Congo FM et RFI0
Becoming a Journalist: Experiences of Trainee Journalists in Zimbabwe0
Assessment of Journalistic Framing of Chinese Loans in Selected Nigerian Dailies0
Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa0
Through the Media Looking Glass: Journalists’ Perceptions on South Africa’s Funded Environmental Journalism0
Radio as Propaganda0
Beyond Technological Optimism: Why Legacy and Digital Journalism Converge in Protest Coverage0
Covering COVID-19 in the Global South: Political Position-Taking among Ugandan Journalists0
Journalism in Crisis? Framing Presidential Political Scandals in South African Media0
(Life) Lessons beyond the Lecture Hall: Alumni Reflections on Their Work-Readiness after Completing a South African Postgraduate Journalism Degree0
Radio Still Leads; Others Follow: Media Consumption Patterns of Liberians in the Epicentre0
SABC News Online (re)framing of xenophobia and migrants from 2019 to 20220
Reimagining Through Crisis: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed the Fortunes and Futures of Journalism Schools and Graduates0
Code Mixing inKwayedza: Language Subversion and the Existence of African Language Newspapers0
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