Les Afriques médiatiques

Capitant, Sylvie; Frère, Marie-Soleil

doi:10.3917/afco.240.0025

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“…Political changes have traumatized the African continent over recent decades, and coups, in particular, have foregrounded the socio-political landscape and the media as actors that cannot be ignored (Capitant and Frère, 2011). Bleck and Michelitch (2017), for example, discuss the effects of rebel-controlled radio exposure on populations following Mali's coup in 2012.…”

Section: Literature Review: Media Politics and Professional Boundariesmentioning

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A cog in a wheel? Journalism under pressure during coups d’état in Burkina Faso

Fierens,

Heywood,

Yaméogo

2024

Media, War & Conflict

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This article explores how the (attempted) coups and popular uprising that occurred in Burkina Faso between October 2014 and January 2022 have impacted the professional boundaries of journalism. These events are considered crucial in understanding the complex and ongoing interactions between political actors and the media, and contribute to a better understanding of the broader reality of journalism’s boundary-making process across Africa. Drawing on semi-structured interviews conducted with journalists, editors and journalism teachers in Ouagadougou in 2022, this article investigates the roles that private and public media journalists aimed to play in these extreme conditions and how their reactions reflect the constantly evolving nature of the journalistic profession.

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Section: Literature Review: Media Politics and Professional Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A cog in a wheel? Journalism under pressure during coups d’état in Burkina Faso

Fierens,

Heywood,

Yaméogo

2024

Media, War & Conflict

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“…In other African countries, the concentration is not significant, but the end result is still the same-the media is left in the hands of a few individuals and families, whether powerful or not. Capitant and Frère (2011), examined the ownership pattern of media in Anglophone and Francophone Africa. They note that in Anglophone Africa the media is dominated by some powerful media while in Francophone Africa the media landscape remains in the hands of single individuals with relatively weak structures.…”

Section: Media Concentrationmentioning

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Beyond Public and Private Ownership: Analysis of Media Ownership Patterns in Cameroon and Implications on Journalists’ Professional Aptitude

Forcha¹,

Ngange²

2022

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Media concentration in the hands of a few individuals/tycoons has been noted to have a negative effect on journalism. Thus, who owns and runs the media matters. This piece of research went beyond already established patterns like public and private to examine salient media ownership patterns within these two grand patterns and to establish the relationship with professionalism in Cameroon. The study made use of a mixed methods approach utilising both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Guided by Altschull's media ownership theory and the social responsibility theory of Siebert et al., the study found out that beyond private and public media ownership, other salient media ownership patterns exist, such as horizontal ownership (Newspaper 29.3%, Radio 27.9%, TV 11.1%), conglomerate ownership (8.9%) cross ownership (8.1%), sole proprietor ownership(4.3%), vertical ownership (3.3%), religious ownership (2.4%), community ownership (1.4%) regional line ownership (1.1%), political line ownership (0.5%) and co-ownership (0.3%). With this diversified ownership pattern, Cameroon portrays a unique ownership trend similar to those of many African countries but very different from ownership trends in the USA, Europe and other parts of the world where media concentration lies in the hands of one family or a few individuals. Though media concentration is not very visible in Cameroon, some key players in the likes of the Cameroon government (CRTV and SOPECAM), the Groupe l'Anecdote, La Nouvelle Expression, TV+, Spectrum Group, BT Media Group and DASH Media Group are dominating the media landscape in Cameroon.

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“Wearing a Bullet-Proof Vest”: Social Media Use in Journalism Production Within African–Intercontinental Investigative Networks

Meyer

2019

African Journalism Studies

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Les Afriques médiatiques

Cited by 13 publications

References 12 publications

A cog in a wheel? Journalism under pressure during coups d’état in Burkina Faso

A cog in a wheel? Journalism under pressure during coups d’état in Burkina Faso

Beyond Public and Private Ownership: Analysis of Media Ownership Patterns in Cameroon and Implications on Journalists’ Professional Aptitude

“Wearing a Bullet-Proof Vest”: Social Media Use in Journalism Production Within African–Intercontinental Investigative Networks

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