The Racial Dynamics of Reporting Africa

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.

This book critically considers how and why centring race in the analysis of journalism deepens our understanding of how race is constructed and experienced in society. In doing so, it 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 dominant Western 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 identities and journalism studies, The Racial Dynamics of Reporting Africa contributes to decolonising journalism, media and communication studies. It is recommended reading for students, academics and practitioners in these areas.

Autorentext

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 the 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: A Critical Theoretical Approach to Global Journalistic Practice (Routledge, 2022).

Inhalt

Preface

Acknowledgements

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' experiences of reporting on Africa for Western news

Chapter 5. INGO sources for Western international news on Africa

Chapter 6. Black journalists, INGOs and representations of Africa

Chapter 7. Conclusion

Index