Article: Journalism and secessionism: A contextual analysis of reporting in the Cameroon Anglophone crisis.

This summary article has been written by Edwin Nfor, our African research correspondent. Edwin is doing a PhD thesis on the Cameroon Anglophone crisis in the University of Jyväskylä. The study entitled “Journalism and secessionism: A contextual analysis of reporting in the Cameroon Anglophone crisis” was coauthored by Patience B. Fai and Jonathan Stubbs from … Continued

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Published: 8 Sep 2023

Prejudice-denoting words in news media over time

New study “Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse: A Chronological Analysis” by David Rozado from ECL -Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, Musa Al-Gharbi from Columbia University in NY, and Jamin Halberstadt from Otago University investigated the prevalence of prejudice-denoting words from a large corpus of news and opinion articles. The articles were published … Continued

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Published: 30 Aug 2021

ARTICLE: Scandinavian mainstream media reject alternative right-wing media’s agenda

Swedish, Danish and Norwegian newspapers rarely -if ever- pick up on the topics written about by alternative right-wing media. Silje Nygaard, of University of Bergen, analysed 878 mainstream news articles that made reference to alternative media. Nygaard’s sample comprised six mainstream newspapers’ websites, two from each country. The author collected all articles from 2012 – … Continued

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Published: 17 Feb 2020