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Title:Risk and journalism in the digital age
Author:Hadland, AdrianISNI
Year:2015
Periodical:African journalism studies (ISSN 2374-3689)
Volume:36
Issue:1
Pages:129-134
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:journalism
political violence
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2015.1008179
Abstract:In this article the author investigates the relationship between journalism and conflict, in light of the beheadings of several Western journalist, and the dissemination of these acts via social media, in 2014. The author argues that as long as journalists are too cosy and close with the state, with elites and with big business, they render themselves profoundly vulnerable to being identified as the most convenient and effective ambassador of that very alliance. He then poses the question how African journalism scholars can critique this new phenomenon, and also the context in which this has been allowed to happen. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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