The Racial Dynamics of Reporting Africa

Colonial and Decolonial Practices in Mainstream Western News Media
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-56945-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Journalism

This book critically considers how and why centring race in analysis of journalism deepens our understanding of how race is constructed and experienced in society and offers a theoretical framework for unpacking and dismantling racism within journalism practice and representation.
Linking race critical, post-, and decolonial theories to the structural-constructivist framework of journalistic field theory, this book examines the role of Black journalists and INGOs in reporting on sub-Saharan Africa in dominant British news organisations. This study goes beyond journalistic representation to consider the racial dynamics informing the production of Western news and the complex relations between journalists of colour and the institutional culture of news organisations. Through a case study and in-depth original interviews, the author addresses the racialisation of mainstream UK news production and news representations of Africa and shows how and why mediated racialised discourses occur and recur, as well as what to do about them.
Advancing studies of race, representation, Black (British) identity and journalism studies, The Racial Dynamics of Reporting Africa contributes to decolonising journalism, media, and communication studies. It is recommended reading for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in these areas.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Douglas, Omega

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface

Chapter 1. Media-INGO relations in a post- and decolonial frame

Chapter 2. Decolonial Journalistic Field Theory: A toolkit for unpacking colonial and decolonial practices in dominant Western journalism

Chapter 3. In the newsroom: being ‘diverse’, being Black, being included?

Chapter 4. In the field: Black journalists experience of reporting on Africa

Chapter 5. INGO sources for Western international news on Africa

Chapter 6. Black journalists, INGOs and representations of Africa

Chapter 7. Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Omega Douglas is a lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students across theory and practice and convenes the BA Journalism programme. Her research interests include race, representation and role of diasporic and transnational communities, as well as international institutions, such as INGOs, in global communications. Prior to this book, she co-authored Journalism, Culture and Society (Routledge, 2022).