“…Western influences on the practices and study of journalism have been documented (Curran & Park, 2000) particularly in the context of decolonizing journalism practices and study in the Global South (Banda et al, 2007;Daros, 2022;De Beer et al, 2017;Ezumah, 2019) and in the Global North, where in the United Kingdom journalism education tends to privilege "western knowledge, case studies, practices and experiences" (Aujla-Sidhu, 2022, p. 1644. This study acknowledges that journalism is fundamentally connected to society or community, and when it is studied it must be situated within a global framework (Deuze, 2006).…”