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  • Business and Financial Journalism in the Arab World

    Currency and Value of News Reporting in the Middle East and North Africa

    by Fisal Alaqil, Jairo Lugo-Ocando ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    Business and Financial Journalism in the Arab World examines news coverage and journalistic practices around the reporting of business and finance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.Through content analysis of regional newspapers and in-depth interviews with journalists and editors, the authors provide insight into the diversity of news cultures, values, and reporting practices ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South

    A Mouthpiece for Truth

    by Jairo Lugo-Ocando ...
    Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South: A Mouthpiece for Truth examines the way in which foreign aid has shaped professional ideologies of journalism as part of systematic and orchestrated efforts since the beginning of the twentieth century to shape journalism as a political institution of the Global South. Foreign aid pushed for cultural convergence around a set of ideologies as a way of ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Developing News

    Global journalism and the coverage of "Third World" development

    by Jairo Lugo-Ocando, An Nguyen ...
    Developing News sets out to describe how development is articulated in the news and used by newspeople as an analytical category to explain the world. It is about examining development as a discourse that is based on the harmful contrast between the developed and the developing (or the underdeveloped) and that sets the boundaries for what is permissible to say.Jairo Lugo-Ocando and An Nguyen begin ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Blaming the Victim

    How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty

    by Jairo Lugo-Ocando ...
    Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and decontextualise the causes and consequences of poverty worldwide. The result is that the fundamental determinant of poverty - inequality - is removed ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crime Statistics in the News

    Journalism, Numbers and Social Deviation

    by Jairo Lugo-Ocando ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book offers a comparative exploration of how journalists across different newsrooms around the world access and interpret statistics when producing stories related to crime. Looking at the nature of news sources regularly used by journalists, Lugo-Ocando analyses how these numbers are used to report crime.As the author argues, far from being straightforward, the relationship between numbers ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Poor News

    Media Discourses of Poverty in Times of Austerity

    by Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Dr. Steven Harkins ...
    Series series Discourse, Power and Society
    Poor News examines the way discourses of poverty are articulated in the news media by incorporating specific narratives and definers that bring about certain ideological worldviews. This happens, the authors claim, because journalists and news editors make use of a set of information strategies while accessing certain sources within specific social and political dynamics. The book looks at the ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The News Media in Puerto Rico

    Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises

    by Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto, Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Federico Subervi-Vélez ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    The News Media in Puerto Rico offers a synopsis as well as a critical analysis of the Island’s news media system, with emphasis on the political and economic factors that most influence how the media operate.The authors also document the impact of Hurricane Maria on the media structures and the changing media landscape given the political, economic and colonial strictures. Building on interviews ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Science Journalism in the Arab World

    The Quest for ‘Ilm’ and Truth

    by Abdullah Alhuntushi, Jairo Lugo-Ocando ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the main issues and challenges that science journalism faces in the MENA region while analyzing how journalists in these countries cover science and engage with scientists. Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa region have set an ambitious goal for 2030: to transform their societies and become knowledge economies. This means modernizing institutions and encouraging ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Media and Governance in Latin America

    Toward a Plurality of Voices

    Edited by Ximena Orchard, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Julieta Brambila, Jairo Lugo-Ocando ...
    This edited book aims at bringing together a range of contemporary expertise that can shed light on the relationship between media pluralism in Latin America and processes of democratization and social justice. In doing so, the authors of the book provide empirically grounded theoretical insight into the extent to which questions about media pluralism—broadly understood as the striving for diverse ... Read more

    $43.79 USD

  • Handbook of Applied Journalism

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Leon Barkho, Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando, Sadia Jamil ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This authoritative handbook looks at the entire news cycle and provides a bridge between the theoretical and academic study of journalism and its actual contemporary practice. The book's main merit is that it brings theory and practice together, with contributors discussing these issues from different perspectives in a way that scholars, students, and practitioners can find useful in the study of ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Statistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism

    A Study in Quantitative Reporting

    by Alessandro Martinisi, Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando ...
    This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality. This is a task, in our ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Statistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism

    A Study in Quantitative Reporting

    by Alessandro Martinisi, Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando ...
    Statistics and the use of numbers, in general, are becoming increasingly important in journalism, this to the point that it cannot be overemphasised. In the age of the so-called big data, journalists’ engagement with numbers is seen as the Holy Grail to save the news media from declining streams of revenues, hyper-fragmentation of audiences and the de-politicisation of society in general. Indeed, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus