OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Siphiwe Mpye: Black Empowerment Through the Eyes of an Earnest Editor	9
The Future of Television in the Global South; Reflections from Selected Countries	9
Exploring Journalists’ Organizational Working Perceptions in the Ethiopian Local Media: A Focus on Amhara Media Corporation	8
Out of Frame: Invisibilisation of Non-Human Nature in Media Framing of a Land Conflict Transformation Policy in Nigeria	8
Teaching Tech by Rote: Socialization into Digital Literacies in a Ghanaian Classroom	7
Radio and Social Media as A Two-Way Communication Tool in Conflict- and Pandemic-Affected Communities in Burkina Faso	6
Sustainability of Select Indigenous-Language Newspapers Through Advertising in Nigeria: Appraising the Success of Alaroye and Aminiya News	6
Media Framing of the First Administration of Devolution in Kenya	6
Digital Newspaper and Journalism Practices in Tanzania: What Are Journalists’ Perspectives?	5
Gatekeeping Rape Culture: Kenyan News Coverage of Sexual Abuse and Femicide	5
Investigating the Phenomenon of “Reportreneurship”: Uncovering the Motivations, Ethics, and Impacts of Cash-for-news Coverage Practices in Nigerian Media	5
“We Are All Migrants”: Ideological Construction of Xenophobia in Nigerian and South African Newspaper Reports	4
Digital Media Literacy in Africa: Towards a Research Agenda	4
Decoding Contradictory Images: The Discursive Construction of Chinese National Oil Companies in Africa in African Media Coverage	4
Decolonising journalism education: critical perspectives	4
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 Maende	4
African women in digital spaces: redefining social movements on the continent and in the diaspora	4
Children and Young People’s Digital Lifeworlds: Domestication, Mediation, and Agency	4
Digital Political Literacy? How Three Community-Based Organisations in Inner-City Johannesburg Miss the Mark on Social Media	3
Media Representation of Youth (-Driven) Innovation Initiatives in Kenya	3
Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression	3
The Framing of Counter-Political Metaphors in Radio Freedom Songs: An Afrocentric Analysis	3
Mediatization and Politics in Nigeria: A Review	2
Zimbabwean News Media’s Framing of Coal-Fired Power Plants	2
African Journalism Education Reimagined Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic: Aftershocks and Seismic Shifts	2

Special Online Article Collection	2
Uptake and Sustainability of Fact-Checking Practice Beyond a Journalism Fellowship in West Africa	2
The Africa Rising Discourse: Tropes, Trophies and Social Actors	2
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice Towards COVID-19 Prevention Messages on Media in North-West, Nigeria	2
Media and Election Monitoring in Africa: Evolving Mechanisms for the 2016 and 2020 Elections in Ghana	2
The Environment of South African Journalism: Are Mainstream Media Organisations Listening to Activists?	1
Cynical or Critical Media Consumers? Exploring the Misinformation Literacy Needs of South African Youth	1
Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News Landscape	1
Watchdog or Lapdog? South African Broadcasting Corporation News in the Coverage of the 2021 Local Government Elections	1
Pernicious Polarization, Journalistic Professionalization, and Interpretive Community Structures Beyond Liberal Democracies: A Case of Zimbabwe	1
The BBC’s Legacy in Africa: Continuities and Change	1
Social movements and digital activism in Africa	1
The Role of Photography in Communicating Climate Change in Zimbabwe	1
Media Framing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)’s Agitation for the Restoration of Biafra in Two Nigerian Newspapers (2017–2022)	1
Digital Literacy in Africa: Exploring its Relationship with Infrastructure, Policy, and Social Inequality	1
Misinformation Literacy of COVID-19 Digital News in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda	1
“I’m Described as Good Journalist Because I Am ‘Tough’”: How Femininity Is Still Considered a Weakness in Zimbabwean Newsrooms	1
Stewards or Manipulators? Knowledge Brokers’ Complex Positionality in Combating the COVID-19 Infodemic in Malawi	1
TV Portrayal and People’s Perceptions on Indigenous Environmental Conservation in Kenya	1
Investigative Journalism in the Nigerian Press: Strong Watchdogs, Weak Investigators?	1
Sustainability Strategies of Digital Media Start-ups in Zimbabwe: Prospects and Challenges	1
“Meaning in the Service of Power”: A Marxist Analysis of Media Discourse on Presidential Elections in South Africa	1
Public Support for Local and Community Media in Three Countries: A Comparative Study	0
In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa	0
“You Cannot Sway Them with Logic”: Journalists’ Responses to Public Support for Censorship in Kenya	0
African language media	0
Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa	0
Business News Coverage of COVID-19-induced Economic Shutdowns in South Africa and Zimbabwe: A Framing Analysis	0
The Robot's “Myths of Nature”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Twitter Social Bots Discussing Climate Change in Africa	0
Exploring a Practice-Oriented Methodology for Measuring News Media Quality in Tanzania	0
Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict	0
Fact-checking the COVID-19 Infodemic in Sub-Saharan Africa	0
Reconsidering the History of South African Journalism: The Ghost of the Slave Press	0
Network Flow of Campaign Discourses and News Frames: The Changing Fortunes of Twitter/X as a Conduit for Frame-Building	0
“When One Finger Picks Oil, It Reaches Others”: An Examination of Nigerian Journalists’ Perspective on Motivations for Online Harassment	0
Teaching Entrepreneurial Journalism: A Comparative Assessment of Zimbabwe and the United States	0
Correction	0
Through the Media Looking Glass: Journalists’ Perceptions on South Africa’s Funded Environmental Journalism	0
Media Coverage of Women’s Involvement in the #EndSARS Protest Movement in Nigeria	0
(Life) Lessons beyond the Lecture Hall: Alumni Reflections on Their Work-Readiness after Completing a South African Postgraduate Journalism Degree	0
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 RFI	0
Towards a Converged Post-Covid Journalism Training in Africa: A Case Study of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini	0
Journalism in Transition: Navigating Threats and Resilience in Ethiopia after the 2018 Political Reform	0
Climate Justice and Other News Frames in the Coverage of Climate Change in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa	0
The Sociotechnical Dynamics of Virtual Work-Integrated Learning in Journalism Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Applying Virtue Ethics, in the Context of Ubuntu, to Soli in Ghana and Brown-Envelope Journalism in Africa	0
Fighting Fake News Proliferation Through Digital Literacy in Africa: Perspectives from Nigerian Netizens	0
Becoming a Journalist: Experiences of Trainee Journalists in Zimbabwe	0
The Fourth Estate in Ghana’s Fourth Republic: From “Culture of Silence” to Fake News and Post-Truth Politics	0
Decoloniality and Language Policy for Journalism Education in Mauritius. A Post-Covid Analysis	0

Journalism and the Representation of Truth in the Nigerian Postcolonial Literature	0
Global–Local Dynamics and Transformative Approaches in Climate Change Reporting in MENA: Insights from Tunisian Journalists	0
Being a Journalist in North Kivu Province, DRC: Negotiating Professional Boundaries with International Development Actors	0
From the Classroom to the African Newsroom: How Journalism Education Can Bridge the Gap between the Classroom and the Shrinking Newsroom	0
SABC News Online (re)framing of xenophobia and migrants from 2019 to 2022	0
Public Perceptions of the Media Channels and Human Sources of Information about the COVID-19 Vaccine in Malawi	0
Radio Still Leads; Others Follow: Media Consumption Patterns of Liberians in the Epicentre	0
Media Literacy's Role in Democratic Engagement and Societal Transformation among University Students	0
Correction	0
Access to Digital Media and Digital Literacy among Ghanaian Youth: An Explore, Engage, Empower Model Study	0
Code Mixing inKwayedza: Language Subversion and the Existence of African Language Newspapers	0
Media and Politics of Representation: A Critical Decolonial Analysis of the Protests Against Addis Ababa’s Integrated Master Plan	0
Reimagining Through Crisis: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed the Fortunes and Futures of Journalism Schools and Graduates	0
Reporting Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis in a Hybrid Media Environment: How Citizen Journalists and Traditional Media Collaborate and Compete	0
Beyond Technological Optimism: Why Legacy and Digital Journalism Converge in Protest Coverage	0
Assessment of Journalistic Framing of Chinese Loans in Selected Nigerian Dailies	0
Representation of the Perceived Severity of Alcoholism in Vernacular Commercial Radio Messages Promoting Behaviour Change in Central Kenya	0
Reporting on the Coronavirus Pandemic in Ghana: How Ghanaian Media Covered Covid-19 and Public Perceptions of How Media Reports Shaped Perceptions Towards the Pandemic	0
S’inspirer du journalisme environnemental pour produire un podcast en Afrique : cas de « La fin du mois et la fin du monde »	0
Press Freedom and Safety of Journalists in Africa: A Scoping Review	0
Covering COVID-19 in the Global South: Political Position-Taking among Ugandan Journalists	0
Media, ethnicity, and electoral conflicts in Kenya	0
Environmental Journalism in the African Context: Continuity and Change	0
Layered Environmental Discourses: Media Representations of Transnational Extractivism in Zimbabwe	0
The Incompleteness of Knowledge Production: An Interview with Francis Nyamnjoh	0
A Frame Analysis of the Discursive Representation of Chinese Enterprises in African Newspapers	0
Analysing Discourse-Stylistics on Peripheral Journalism Platforms: A Context of Indigenous Language News Outlets on Facebook	0
Journalistic Storytelling for Social Justice: A CDA of Global News Coverage of the Otodo Gbame Forced Evictions in Nigeria	0
The Message, the Medium and the Means of Argumentation: Towards a More Holistic Approach to the Rhetorical Criticism of Television News Reports	0
Breaking Barriers for Female Sports Journalists in Covering Sports in Tanzania	0
Radio as Propaganda	0
The Influence of Dedicated Fact-Checking on Journalism Practice in South Africa	0
Media Literacy and Fact-Checking as Proactive and Reactive Responses to Misinformation in Kenya and Senegal	0
Humanitarian journalists: covering crises from a boundary zone	0
Demographic Differences in Digital News Literacy in East Africa	0