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Reporting Africa: Problems and Perspecitives

Franks, Suzanne (2005) Reporting Africa: Problems and Perspecitives. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC), (Specia). ISSN 1744-6716. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:14881)

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Abstract

The paper argues that over the past thirty years there has been a steady decline in the attention Western media have given to reporting Africa. And the end of the cold war has exacerbated this lack of interest. When sub-Saharan Africa is covered in the news it is uniformly as a tale of

disaster and conflict. There is rarely much context or background in the reports. In part this is due to changing priorities in news coverage but also part of the wider trend of the disappearance of TV current affairs on mainstream channels in the UK. It argues that if in 2005 British

politicians are seeking to reinvent our perceptions of Africa and the way that the West engages

with it, then the role of the media and the stories it reports on Africa will have a pivotal role in

that process.

Item Type: Article
Additional information: ISSN 1744-6708 (Print); 1744-6716 (Online)
Uncontrolled keywords: Reporting Africa, stereotypes, foreign reporting, news, disaster news
Subjects: J Political Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Depositing User: Suzanne Westhead
Date Deposited: 31 May 2009 07:14 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:53 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14881 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Franks, Suzanne.

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