Journalism Under Siege in Zimbabwe

ISBN-13: 9783844316346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 112 str.

Jonathan Gandari

Opis

A new kind of journalism emerge in the Zimbabwean newsroom as journalists try to cope with the political and economic pressures bedeviling the country.Jonathan examines the constructions of professionalism at the Financial Gazette through interrogating the journalistic practices privileged during the process of news production in the context of overwhelming state power.Jonathan draws on qualitative research methods, particularly observation and multi-layered individual in-depth interviews to interrogate the complex choices reporters made to ether cooperate or resist government pressure in their daily practices.

O autorze

Jonathan Gandari is a Zimbabwean Journalist and Media trainer. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in Media Studies and Journalism from Rhodes University in South Africa and another Master of Arts in Global Business Journalism from Tsinghua University in China.