Identities of news-workers in a state-owned newspaper

ISBN-13: 9783844328806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 124 str.

Mothepane Kotele

Opis

This study is premised on the hypothesis that while Lesotho is a democratic country, the power of the government to employ and fire strips news-workers of their autonomy as professionals. The main interest is to understand the complexity of negotiating the news-workers role identities. The idea is to understand how the news-workers see themselves, amidst conflicting identities where they are, on the one hand media professionals, on the other hand public servants whilst they also sometimes have to take on the identity of becoming government communication tools. This issue speaks to the heart of journalism professionalism particularly in the debates around the role of media in democracy and how state ownership and control impedes on such role.

O autorze

Director of Lesotho News Agency under the Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology. Part time lecturer and journalist. She is a Masters graduate in Journalism and Media Studies from the University of Rhodes in South Africa. She also completed her postgraduate Diploma in Media Management at the same school.