Ethnic Orientation over Ethical Underpinnings: Emerging Trends of the Ethiopian Media Landscape

Dessie, Behailu Atinafu; Ali, Adem Chanie; Moges, Mulatu Alemayehu

doi:10.1080/17512786.2021.2024083

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“…This interconnection between economic forces and journalism, and the subsequent impact on journalistic autonomy, has been studied in democratic (e.g., Örnebring and Karlsson, 2022), authoritarian (e.g., Dessie et al, 2022) and hybrid/transitional environments (Milojević and Krstić, 2018), but not at the specific level of role performance as outlined in this research. Based on findings from this study, further explorations are required into how news processes are tied to economic gain by powerful media entities that might support the loyal-facilitator role and amplify hegemonic narratives in diverse cultural environments.…”

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The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries

Mellado,

Hallin,

Blanchett

et al. 2024

Journalism

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The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role performance as a theoretical and methodological framework, this paper overcomes these shortcomings through a content analysis of 148,474 news stories from 365 print, online, TV, and radio outlets in 37 countries. We consider two fundamental system-level variables—liberal democracy and market orientation—testing a series of hypotheses concerning their influence on the interventionist, watchdog, loyal-facilitator, service, infotainment, and civic roles in the news globally. Findings confirm the widely asserted hypothesis that liberal democracy is associated with the performance of public-service oriented roles. Claims that market orientation reinforces critical and civic-oriented journalism show more mixed results and give some support to the argument that there are forms of “market authoritarianism” associated with loyalist journalism. The findings also show that the interventionist and infotainment roles are not significantly associated with the standard measures of political and economic structure, suggesting the need for more research on their varying forms across societies and the kinds of system-level factors that might explain them.

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The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries

Mellado,

Hallin,

Blanchett

et al. 2024

Journalism

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“…Following the 2018 political reform and as a clear departure from previous trends, the content and ownership of media establishments became increasingly ethnic based. A higher degree of administrative and editorial independence in the already functional regional media outlets, resulted in a championing of ethnic issues in news reporting (Behailu et al, 2022;Dessie et al, 2022;Skjerdal & Mulatu, 2021). These media establishments have previously been known for working under the control and guidance of the national government organ known as the Ministry of Information (MOI) and later Government Communication Affairs Office (GCAO).…”

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Ethnicity as journalism paradigm: Polarization and political parallelism of Ethiopian news in transition

Kebede

Tveiten

2023

ONLINE J COMMUN MEDIA TECHNOL

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In the wake of the 2018 liberalization of journalistic freedoms in Ethiopia, new waves of political unrest and a re-tightened grip on the media have emerged. A key feature in this context is the increasing reference to ethnic contrasts reflecting regional differences. While Ethiopia is a unique country in the African context in the sense of never having been colonized (with the exception of a brief period of Italian occupation), features of the contemporary media situation are also of general validity in understanding political realities in other African countries. This paper explores the concept of ‘journalism paradigms’ in that regard, with the follow-up question of how an understanding of journalism paradigms founded on ethnic boundaries might also contribute toward a more distinctly ‘African’ journalism research framework.

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The advent of community-based private media in Ethiopia: Implications for nation building and integration

Ayalew Dessie,

Woldearegay,

Wonde

2023

Cogent Social Sciences

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Ethnic Orientation over Ethical Underpinnings: Emerging Trends of the Ethiopian Media Landscape

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries

The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries

Ethnicity as journalism paradigm: Polarization and political parallelism of Ethiopian news in transition

The advent of community-based private media in Ethiopia: Implications for nation building and integration

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