Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict Rwanda

Journalists working in authoritarian countries contend with competing institutional logics. This is particularly the case in post-conflict...
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Author: Ruth Moon
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Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict Rwanda by Moon, Ruth

Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict Rwanda

$100.23

Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict Rwanda

$100.23
Author: Ruth Moon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Journalists working in authoritarian countries contend with competing institutional logics. This is particularly the case in post-conflict countries, where journalistic practice is simultaneously shaped by historical antagonisms, global development initiatives, and the authoritarian state. While journalism schools and professional organizations speak a Western logic of objectivity and independence, political history instills a logic of subordination, and organizational business models instill a logic of financially motivated censorship. As more countries move away from democratic models, more and more journalists will face these seemingly irreconcilable pressures.

Building on months of ethnographic work, Ruth Moon looks at journalistic practice in Rwanda, a country where journalism has developed into a stable field in the two and a half decades since the nation's 1994 genocide. At the same time, its journalists, facing pressure to please the State, have lost confidence in themselves, and readers have lost faith in local media. Can the nation's news media reinvigorate itself, either from within or with assistance from global journalism actors? This book examines journalism practice in Rwanda to draw conclusions applicable to journalism fields everywhere. Moon argues that not only is the force of globalization inadequate to shift local practice, but it in fact serves to reinforce local practices and boundaries.

Author: Ruth Moon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.14w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780197623428

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