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This book examines the main issues and challenges that science journalism faces in the MENA region while analyzing how journalists in these countries cover science and engage with scientists. Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa region have set an ambitious goal for 2030: to transform their societies and become knowledge economies. This means modernizing institutions and encouraging people to embrace Science, Technology, Engineer...

This book examines the main issues and challenges that science journalism faces in the MENA region while analyzing how journalists in these countries cover science and engage with scientists. Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa region have set an ambitious goal for 2030: to transform their societies and become knowledge economies. This means modernizing institutions and encouraging people to embrace Science, Technology, Engineer...

Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South: A Mouthpiece for Truth examines the way in which foreign aid has shaped professional ideologies of journalism as part of systematic and orchestrated efforts since the beginning of the twentieth century to shape journalism as a political institution of the Global South. Foreign aid pushed for cultural convergence around a set of ideologies as a way of exporting ideology and expanding markets, refl...

This book examines the way foreign aid has shaped journalism in the Global South and argues that it played a central role in defining the core values of news reporting in these countries, which in turn had their own ways of communicating news. These attempts were met with resistance, which at the end created the South's own journalism grammars.

Developing News sets out to describe how development is articulated in the news and used by newspeople as an analytical category to explain the world.

This book offers a comparative exploration of how journalists across different newsrooms around the world access and interpret statistics when producing stories related to crime. Looking at the nature of news sources regularly used by journalists, Lugo-Ocando analyses how these numbers are used to report crime. As the author argues, far from being straightforward, the relationship between numbers and journalists in the context of crime reporti...

An analysis of how poverty is misrepresented in mainstream media, and a look at what really lies behind these narratives.

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We are aware today that notions such as 'knowledge economy' and 'information society', which dominated the discourses of the 1990s, were ideological constructions. But for millions of people in poor parts of the world they still mean unfulfilled promises of progress and modernity in the face of a technological version of the Washington Consensus. This book wants to demystify these promises in light of critical theory and empirical evidence, so...