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Global Journalism
Practice and New Media
Performance
Edited by
Yusuf Kalyango, Jr and David H Mould
Ohio University, USA
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David H Mould 2014
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Global journalism practice and new media performance / [edited by] Yusuf
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1. Journalism. 2. Online journalism. 3. Digital media. I. Kalyango,
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
Abbreviations and Acronyms xix
1 Introduction: Trends in Global Journalism and
New Media Performance 1
Yusuf Kalyango Jr and David H Mould
Section I Journalism Practice in the United States 9
2 Global Media Educators Evaluate US Journalism Practice 11
Sally Ann Cruikshank, Ashley Furrow, Yusuf Kalyango, Jr
Section II New versus Traditional Media 25
3 Case 1: Russia—New Media Reshape the Social
and Political Agenda 27
Alexander Kazakov
4 Case 2: Palestine—New Media, Same Old Political Agenda 38
Mohammed Abualrob and Diana Alkhayyat
5 Case 3: China’s New Media Paradox: Economic Gains,
Political Troubles 50
Ke Wang and Guoping He
6 Case 4: Armenia—New Media Transform Politics 64
Suren Deheryan
7 Case 5: Jordan—State of Online Newspapers for
Journalists and Readers 76
Aysha Abughazzi
8 Case 6: Turkey—Live Coverage of Protests Pre-empted
by Penguins 90
Nezih Orhon and Alper Altunay
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9 Case 7: El Salvador—Digital Media and Social
Campaigns—Libro Libre 104
Silvia Callejas Contreras
10 Case 8: India—ICTs and the Empowerment of
Rural Women 117
Peddiboyina Vijaya Lakshmi
Section III Journalism Practice and Media
Performance 131
11 Case 1: Ghana—The Politicization of
Liberalized Media 133
Wilberforce S Dzisah
12 Case 2: Colombia—An Ethnographic Study of Digital
Journalistic Practices 146
Silvia Montaña
13 Case 3: Taiwan—Journalism Education and Media
Performance 161
Huei Lan Wang
14 Case 4: Guyana—The Rebirth of Journalism Education
with Project Phoenix 172
Carolyn Walcott
15 Case 5: Yemen—Presidential Political Discourse During
the Revolution 187
Murad Alazzany
16 Case 6: Suriname—The Land Rights Issue and Media
Performance 201
Rachael van der Kooye
17 Case 7: Kyrgyzstan—Challenges for Environmental
Journalism 214
Gulnura Toralieva
18 Conclusion: Prospects on Global Journalism Practice
and New Media 227
David H. Mould and Yusuf Kalyango Jr
Master Bibliography 233
Index 259
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 Journalism and media educators from Pakistan, Ghana,
Jordan, and China (among others not pictured here) on a
media study tour to talk to the newsroom staff and
management about the newsgathering process and
media operation at WOIO 19-Action News in Cleveland,
Ohio 2012 16
2.2 Journalism and media educators from 18 countries
on a media study tour at the CNN Headquarters in
Atlanta in 2010 to talk to the news production staff
and public affairs executives about the global
newsgathering process and media operation. 20
3.1 Internet use in Russia (FOM–RUNET project) 33
3.2 Internet use in Russia
(All-Russia Center of Public Opinion Research) 34
4.1 Differences between Ma’an and Al-Quds in Sources
of Stories 46
5.1 Internet Users in China 55
6.1 Number of Registered Websites in Armenia 67
9.1 Libro Libre Slogan: Read it, live through it,
set it free! 111
12.1 Lasillavacia.com: Traffic Since 2009,
Measured by Number of Hits 153
12.2 Office Layout of Lasillavacia.com 155
13.1 Taiwan’s Media Profile 162
Tables
3.1 Trust in Types of Mass Media in Russia 31
5.1 Comparison of Internet Usage in China in
2011 and 2012 56
7.1 Respondents’ Preferences of Jordanian Dailies 80
7.2 Top Jordanian Online News Websites 81
7.3 Jordan: Respondents’ Preferences of Regional
Networks 82
viii List of Figures and Tables
7.4 Jordan: Most Visited News Media Websites on
March 25, 2013 (Alexa.com) 83
8.1 Major Media Groups in Turkey 94
11.1 Ghana’s Media Policies, 1957-percent 134
14.1 Old versus New Curriculum 176
15.1 Timeline for the Events of the Yemeni
Revolution, 2011–2012 188
Preface and
Acknowledgements
Yusuf Kalyango Jr and David H Mould
One spring day in 2010, as we were driving back from the airport after
an all-day briefing at the US Department of State in Washington, DC,
we discussed the research potential of a new professional development
program for international journalism and media educators. Ohio Uni-
versity had just been awarded a three-year contract to offer a summer
Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) on Journalism and Media. Every year,
18 lecturers, some of them mid-career scholars and heads of journalism
and media departments, would be visiting to learn about the US media
and journalism, do research, and visit local, state, and national media.
We had a good grasp of what our academic and research program in
the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism could offer, but struggled with a
broader question. How will we know what participants think about US
journalism and how it compares with the journalism they have taught
and practiced in their own countries? Of course, we had a monitoring
and evaluation plan, but it was mainly designed to measure outputs—
the sessions and activities conducted—and what the participants liked
or disliked about them. Gauging how they viewed or contextualized
media was not in the scope of work. However, we understood that host-
ing international journalism and media educators from many countries
over the next three years offered an exciting opportunity for the learn-
ing to go both ways. Most participants would be visiting the US for the
first time and we expected they would be more than willing to share
their perspectives. Some were already established researchers and oth-
ers were experienced professional journalists and teachers, but without
rigorous, peer-reviewed, research experience.
In 2010, the first round of focus groups was conducted near the end
of the program. After six weeks of learning about journalism and media
practice in the US, mass communication theories and research meth-
odologies, journalism ethics, and working and traveling together, the
participants felt comfortable enough with the program staff and each
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