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The Influence of Less Press Freedom on the Newspaper Framing of the Issues of Corruption in Sudan
The phenomenon of financial corruption has become widely dominant in the third world countries. Hence, the present study aims at identifying how press freedom affects the Sudanese newspapers in framing the issues of corruption in Sudan. The study adopted a qualitative research method using in-depth interviews to adequately probe the perspectives of the Sudanese journalists and editors; a purposeful sampling was employed in selecting 20 Sudanese journalists working in both governmental and private newspapers in Sudan. The findings revealed that the legislation is one of the key elements of the development of press industry by the Sudanese government to ensure press freedom. The findings suggest that the government may reconsider the legislations regarding the press freedom in Sudan. Other future researchers could be needed in order to explore how far the press or media in Sudan are capable of addressing anti-corruption issues in the country. keywords: Less press freedom; Newspapers; Framing; Corruption
International Journal of Development and Economic Sustainability
The study examines the framing of anticorruption war by newspapers in Nigeria from 2015 to 2019. Content analysis was adopted for the study while 608 hard copies of the Daily Sun and The Nation newspapers published during the period were examined. The study was situated in the framing theory which posits that the media give salience to issues in a manner to shape public opinion. Data were collected and presented in tables were analysed with the Chi-square statistical tool. Findings show that there were significant differences in the frequency and prominence in the framing of the anti-corruption war by the newspapers. The study recommends that mainstream media organisations should review their editorial policies to increase the frequency and prominence in their framing of the anti-corruption war to help mitigate the consequences of corruption on the socio-economic and political development of the country.
How Restrictive Laws Affect the Framing of the Issues of Corruption in Sudan.pdf
This study aims at identifying how the restrictive laws affect the Sudanese newspapers' framing of the issues of corruption in Sudan. Therefore, the present study adopted a qualitative research method using in-depth interviews to adequately probe the perceptions of the Sudanese journalists and editors and explore how the restrictive laws affect the Sudanese newspapers' in framing the issues of corruption in Sudan. A purposeful sampling was adopted in selecting 20 Sudanese journalists across both governmental and private newspapers operating in Sudan. In order to achieve clearer understandings of the journalists' perspectives, the study adequately supported each theme with models generated by means of employing NVivo 8 software. The findings revealed that the Legislation is one of the key elements of the development of press industry by the Sudanese government through parliament to ensure press freedom. In addition, the Sudanese journalists indicate that the corporate ownership as well as market contexts are significant in determining the quality of information presented in the newspapers' political news coverage. Hence, it can be concluded that there is a relationship between the newspaper ownership and the diversity of contents in newspapers. Consequently, there are negative effects of restrictive laws on the development of the Sudanese press industry in Sudan. Hence, the study calls for more attention towards the legislations in Sudan to insure the press freedom and the good work environment for journalists to carry out their role in raising the Sudanese citizens' awareness.
Corruption is a global threat to state efficiency which is common to both developed and developing countries alike. However, corruption is more evident in developing countries such as; Sudan and its ravaging effects are particularly apparent in Sudan. However, the media contributes largely to the success of democracy in today's world. They carry a large database of information, along with their content and analyses, which could be a useful source for law makers to legislate laws and policies and for voters to choose their governments. As such, this paper set out to address the issue of corruption in Sudan within the context of Sudanese press by focusing on how media ownership and access to information influence the Sudanese press frames the coverage of issues of corruption in Sudan. This study therefore proposes a content analysis of Sudanese newspaper on their coverage of the issues of corruption. As with every other research, the limitation of this study is that, it is a conceptual paper, hence no empirical findings have been reported. Therefore, an empirical study into this issue will help researchers to explore how far the press or media in Sudan are capable of addressing anti-corruption issues in the country.
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Through quantitative content analysis and qualitative framing analysis, this study examines how a broad range of UK newspapers report and frame aid and corruption issues in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, three of the biggest beneficiaries of UK aid, nations that are also perceived to have a corruption problem. The potential contradiction of generosity abroad and austerity at home has raised questions, reflected in media reports, about the wisdom of the policy of maintaining a big aid budget, while at the same time cutting social spending. The study analysed over 300 articles in 15 UK newspapers published between 2000 and 2017 and makes several significant contributions to knowledge in the field of media representation of aid. First, its finding that UK newspapers did not rely heavily on news agencies for the coverage of the topic in the three countries is noteworthy, given cuts to foreign correspondents by many newspapers. Second, the positive coverage given to these issues by many ‘quality’ UK newspapers is significant, when viewed against the history, in existing literature, of negative representation of Africa by the mainstream UK media, including on matters related to aid and corruption. Third, the study fills a unique gap in literature as a result of its relatively large eighteen-year sample period. Fourth, comparing two periods of time (2000-2009 and 2010-2017) before and after the introduction of austerity makes it the first academic study to make such comparison raising new questions about the relation between aid policy, newspaper coverage and against the background of austerity economic policies in the UK.
HONG KONG JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2021
Although Nigeria has gained some marginal stride in its fight against corruption, there are still some significant milestones yet to be attained. The role of the press as the watchdog of society in this fight is undeniable. In light of the need for continuous assessment of the media‟s performance, this study investigated the newspaper coverage of the Abdulrasheed Maina case. The Guardian Newspaper and The Daily Trust Newspaper were selected and contentanalyzed to assess how the news around the case was framed. Primary data were collected from all the editions of these newspapers, accounting for seven weeks, and covered 98 newspapers. The unit of analysis included the story categories of the Abdulrasheed Maina case were examined as News stories (Headlines). The framing theory and watchdog model formed the theoretical framework. While the content analysis was employed to investigate the tonality of the news content, critical discourse analysis assesses the linguistic style used by both newspapers, thus determining their ideological position. The research findings showed disparities in the tonality of reportage for both newspapers, although proprietary or regional influences did not affect their ideological position. This research novelty is in using content analysis and critical discourse analysis to analyze the news contents of a national and regional newspaper.
How Restrictive Laws Affect the Framing of the Issues of Corruption in Sudan
Jurnal The Messenger, 2018
This study aims at identifying how the restrictive laws affect the Sudanese newspapers' framing of the issues of corruption in Sudan. Therefore, the present study adopted a qualitative research method using in-depth interviews to adequately probe the perceptions of the Sudanese journalists and editors and explore how the restrictive laws affect the Sudanese newspapers' in framing the issues of corruption in Sudan. A purposeful sampling was adopted in selecting 20 Sudanese journalists across both governmental and private newspapers operating in Sudan. In order to achieve clearer understandings of the journalists' perspectives, the study adequately supported each theme with models generated by means of employing NVivo 8 software. The findings revealed that the Legislation is one of the key elements of the development of press industry by the Sudanese government through parliament to ensure press freedom. In addition, the Sudanese journalists indicate that the corporate ownership as well as market contexts are significant in determining the quality of information presented in the newspapers' political news coverage. Hence, it can be concluded that there is a relationship between the newspaper ownership and the diversity of contents in newspapers. Consequently, there are negative effects of restrictive laws on the development of the Sudanese press industry in Sudan. Hence, the study calls for more attention towards the legislations in Sudan to insure the press freedom and the good work environment for journalists to carry out their role in raising the Sudanese citizens' awareness.
Newspapers framing and experts' perceptions on issues of corruption in Sudan
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In spite of decades of political challenges, there is little data available on the state of corruption and newspapers framing in Sudan. Consequently, its widespread has been seriously undermining the fragile Sudanese peacebuilding process. Therefore, the need for a critical examination of the role newspapers played and the perceptions of journalists have become imperative. Hence, the motivation for this study's objective on the Sudanese newspapers' coverage in relation to level of prominence, dominant frames, ownership pattern, challenges facing journalists, extent of the effect and the solutions to problems faced by journalists. The study explored the issue through the propositions of agenda setting and news framing theories within a mixed methods design in order to systematically provide a new approach and provide a deep understanding of how the press in Sudan can address the issues of financial corruption. For collection of data, content analysis of four major newspapers in Sudan were applied, while in-depth interviews with 20 Sudanese journalists selected across both government and private newspapers were descriptively and thematically analyzed with SPSS and NVivo 8 software. The analysis was carried out in stages of coding. The findings discovered that the Sudanese press faced many obstacles that prevent its journalistic performance. Notwithstanding these, prominence was given high attention while responsibility frame was dominant. The findings showed that there is high level of ownership influence which restricted freedom of the media. Also, there are variations in the four newspapers in terms of the five frames. The major challenges are information concealment, lack of investigative training and imposition of taxes and the weak regulations that govern the ownership of various media. Therefore, the study has significantly contributed to the overall perspectives of how newspapers framing affects public awareness about corruption and possible remedies in Sudan. Also, how the external factor, such as ownership, access to the government's information, censorship and restrictive laws, influence the content of the newspaper. Consequently, this study is suggesting that Sudanese newspapers be reinforced, while the Law of proprietorship need to improve on the protection of journalists who investigate corruption in Sudan.
An Investigation of News Framing at the 6th General Election of Ethiopia: The Case of Bonga FM 97.4
EJLCC Vol. 6 No. 1, December 2023, 2023
This study is an investigation of the news framing of the 6th general election in Ethiopia by Bonga FM 97.4. The main goal of the study was to examine how the station framed and reported its news stories during the 2021 general election in Ethiopia, focusing on source and tone distribution among the parties. The principle of Creswell et al. (2003)’s explanatory sequential mixed method approach was used to come up with the data presented in the study in the road of cross sectional design. The study utilized framing and agenda setting theories as the bases for the analysis of the news stories. Samples were selected after identifying election related news from March 2021 to May 2021 proportionally. Using stratified sampling, a total of 82 samples news were taken from each month (26, 31, and 25). The contents from these months were analyzed using structured code sheets under 6 analytical categories by which the media passed through to frame the news. Three reporters and two editors were selected purposively to have deep understanding of how they framed the news, and how they were challenged when covering the 2021 campaign. The finding indicated that in spite of its valuable role of informing the public with its informative frame, the station dominantly used the issue frame over others, and used the ruling party as a source that mostly echoed a positive tone to it. The reporters have been challenged differently from internal and external bodies; after all the study forwarded recommendation that the media station has to be reformed practically in terms of its independence, should work on political reporting routinely, should minimize implicit interference and restrictions. We recommend that an extended study has to be done on this issue.
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Embarking on the fight against corruption is one of Cameroon‟s greatest efforts to forge the country ahead. Due to the endemic and devastating nature of corruption in the country, the government, under direct instructions from the Head of State, has made the fight against corruption a priority in all sectors. The media remain a major partner in attaining government‟s objectives. This paper therefore, seeks to understand the role of the media in this fight through a comparative analysis of Cameroon media coverage of corruption by a private (The Post) and a public (Cameroon Tribune) media. In order to analyse central issues on corruption by the Cameroon media, a content analysis has been used to study The Post and Cameroon Tribune newspapers. Issues of the newspapers as from July 2014 to December 2014 were content analysed with the unit of analysis being a news story. Findings reveal that The Post newspaper covered more stories on corruption (70.6%) than Cameroon Tribune (29.4%). The ...