Data Journalism and the Panama Papers: New Horizons for Investigative Journalism in Africa

Moyo, Last

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“…There are also numerous cases of disclosure of important documentation through social networks and organisation of public access to information that was hidden from him [17]. Given the volume of social networks and the amount of information actively generated, information literacy for investigative journalists is considered as a critical competence [126,127].…”

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“…Being party-independent, such informal groups and associations have trouble receiving grants that require formal registration of a grantee. A bright example of such a collaboration is a group of journalists involved in the Panama and Paradise Papers investigations, who later organised the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [127,128]. Investigative journalism faces challenges reflecting high social status and the impact of highly trusted resources among users.…”

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RETRACTED: Information skills and literacy in investigative journalism in the social media era

Zhang

Wang

2022

Journal of Information Science

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The study aims to determine the preferred information skills and evaluate information literacy and skills in the social media era on the example of investigative journalism to surmount the majority of challenges it faces. The challenge-based survey conducted among 281 reporting journalists from various countries revealed that their information skills and literacy are average. The survey results show that half of the respondents (52%) recognise the importance of these characteristics, while 38% are sure that information literacy and skills are not necessary and 10% chose the variant ‘I am not sure’. As the indicators show, the main aim for investigative journalists’ writing is to influence the society’s mind about some facts presented in the reports (40%). Only 25% of respondents write with the purpose to present reliable information that indicates the level of their information literacy. The latest strategies in the professional development of investigative journalists in modern social media era allow overcoming the major challenges, including those related to the influence and interests of third parties. The practical significance and prospects of further research are explained by the possibility of using the obtained statistical data to increase the level of information literacy and skills not only of investigative journalists, but also other specialists who work with information.

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RETRACTED: Information skills and literacy in investigative journalism in the social media era

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Wang

2022

Journal of Information Science

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“…Recent studies have explored new partnerships and collaborative practices emerging between technologists, data experts, users/audiences or citizens from the Global North and traditional journalists in African newsrooms, an example of an "entanglement" with possible implications, which are yet to be interrogated (Cheruiyot, Baack, and Ferrer-Conill 2019;Wamunyu and Siguru Wahutu 2019;Moon 2021;Moyo 2019). There are also indications that the previous notions of "citizen journalism" or "alternative" media have been too simplistic (Holt, Figenschou, and Frischlich 2019;Mutsvairo and Salgado 2022), and thus insufficient in analysing the emerging participatory cultures in an increasingly connected Sub-Saharan Africa (Mabweazara and Mare 2021), and in an expanding digital networked environment (see Heinrich 2011).…”

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“…Some of these actors are expanding and complementing news production within legacy news media. For instance, technology experts and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) boost media production by providing funding for media innovations, support collaborative projects in investigative journalism, or train traditional journalists (Wright 2018;Moyo 2019;Cheruiyot, Baack, and Ferrer-Conill 2019;Royston 2021). These actors are increasingly supplanting and transgressing boundaries of journalistic practice, thereby (possibly) spawning new forms of journalisms at the margins of traditional journalism.…”

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Making News Outside Legacy Media

Cheruiyot

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Mare

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African Journalism Studies

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One of the recurrent questions in journalism scholarship is whether journalism as a profession and institution can grow and thrive outside the traditional newsroom (especially, with the dominant agenda-setting media in most African countries being either state-or privately run press). In introducing this special issue, we revisit this pertinent question, while also considering the implications of today's digitally networked continent, and the question of the ever-expanding communication ecology that is a dynamic space for media production by both human and nonhuman actors. First, we acknowledge that the current peripheralization of journalism is a global phenomenon, and that digital technologies seem to reproduce similar trends and patterns in various journalistic cultures across the world, and therefore the increasingly connected continent cannot be understood in isolation. The case studies featured in our special issue show that digital technologies have clearly fast-tracked the changes in media production and intensified the disruptive effects of the operations of non-journalistic actors within the continent's communication ecology. We then argue that when carefully considered, these changes in media production and journalistic practices are merely part of a continuation of trends that preceded the digital age. Non-traditional ways of making news have been driven mainly by non-journalistic actors' perpetual need to challenge or question traditional actors, in media and politics, as the exclusive disseminators, the dominant voices, or the sole arbiters in spaces of deliberation within the communication ecology.

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“…In Africa, data journalism has the potential to reinvigorate the purpose and essence of journalism in a continent dogged by massive corruption (Mutsvairo, 2019), declining public trust in the media (Chibuwe et al, 2022), and a growing imperative for media that serve the public interest (Chibuwe et al, 2022). Research by Moyo (2019), Mutsvairo et al (2020) and Muneri (2019) shows that the uptake of data journalism has been slow and remains less utilised across the continent. This extant research (see Moyo and Munoriyarwa, 2019; Mutsvairo, 2019) notes several factors hindering data journalism uptake.…”

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Exploring data journalism practices in Africa: data politics, media ecosystems and newsroom infrastructures

Chiumbu

Munoriyarwa

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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Extant research on data journalism in Africa has focused on newsroom factors and the predilections of individual journalists as determinants of the uptake of data journalism on the continent. This article diverts from this literature by examining the slow uptake of data journalism in sub- Saharan Africa through the prisms of non-newsroom factors. Drawing on in-depth interviews with prominent investigative journalists sampled from several African countries, we argue that to understand the slow uptake of data journalism on the continent; there is a need to critique the role of data politics, which encompasses state, market and existing media ecosystems across the continent. Therefore, it is necessary to move beyond newsroom-centric factors that have dominated the contemporary understanding of data journalism practices. A broader, non-newsroom conceptualisation beyond individual journalistic predilections and newsroom resources provides productive clarity on data journalism’s slow uptake on the continent. These arguments are made through the conceptual prisms of materiality, performativity and reflexivity.

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Data Journalism and the Panama Papers: New Horizons for Investigative Journalism in Africa

Cited by 7 publications

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RETRACTED: Information skills and literacy in investigative journalism in the social media era

RETRACTED: Information skills and literacy in investigative journalism in the social media era

Making News Outside Legacy Media

Exploring data journalism practices in Africa: data politics, media ecosystems and newsroom infrastructures

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