Jairo Lugo-Ocando is an Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Before becoming an academic he worked as a correspondent and news editor for several media outlets in Latin America and the US. An Nguyen an Associate Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism, English and Communication at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom. A former Vietnamese journalist and an Australian-educated scholar, he has published widely in several areas, including digital news consumption and citizenship, public engagement with science news, and news and socio-political changes in a globalising world.
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Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: The elusive, shape-shifting nature of development in the news What is development, anyway? The critical examination of development news Thematic organization Chapter 1: The "tokenization" of development in the news Making poverty newsworthy The focus on events and disasters Dramatic storylines: goodies versus baddies The "celebritisation" of poverty The cult of economics An exact science? "Kicking the ladder" Dominance of Western worldviews Authoritative power to speak Practical challenges in newsgathering Any hope for change? Chapter 2: Journalistic conventions and the geopolitics of development narratives Geopolitics in news articulation Pack mentality and journalistic conventions Development news as geopolitical propaganda From colonial rhetoric to Truman s development categories Cold War discourses Concluding notes Chapter 3: The "number game" in development news Naïve empiricism "Numbers rule the world" One dollar per day to out of poverty? The Holy Grail of GDP Concluding notes Chapter 4: Communicating containment and the Alliance for Progress Ideological and practical factors Alliance for Progress as a propagandist narrative The "equal partnership" discourse Mediatised development Lessons from the Alliance Chapter 5: News coverage of foreign aid: a case study of the Millennium Village Project in African, US and UK media Background to the chapter: the many problems of news coverage of foreign aid The case of the Millennium Villages Project Background on the MVP About this study African Press Coverage of the villages US/UK coverage of the MVP Early stages: ideologies and personalities as news Second phase: critical voices from the blogosphere Third phase: The Idealist Constraints on media reporting Conclusion Disclaimer Chapter 6: Disempowering news: the feminization of development The feminisation of poverty "Empowering" women for less gender justice? Gendered news practices Chapter 7: New technologies for old ideas An ICT-driven new economy Technology as geopolitics Technology as colonial legitimisation Technology without politics? Chapter 8: Malthusianism and news framing of population growth Shifting the blame Legitimising racism Malthusianism returns as the Bell Curve Towards a better news articulation of population issues Conclusion: Beyond the North-to-South lecture: can the news media ever get to the core of development? Us-versus-them propaganda What is being `sold What is being missed Where to from here? References Index
Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: The elusive, shape-shifting nature of development in the news What is development, anyway? The critical examination of development news Thematic organization Chapter 1: The "tokenization" of development in the news Making poverty newsworthy The focus on events and disasters Dramatic storylines: goodies versus baddies The "celebritisation" of poverty The cult of economics An exact science? "Kicking the ladder" Dominance of Western worldviews Authoritative power to speak Practical challenges in newsgathering Any hope for change? Chapter 2: Journalistic conventions and the geopolitics of development narratives Geopolitics in news articulation Pack mentality and journalistic conventions Development news as geopolitical propaganda From colonial rhetoric to Truman s development categories Cold War discourses Concluding notes Chapter 3: The "number game" in development news Naïve empiricism "Numbers rule the world" One dollar per day to out of poverty? The Holy Grail of GDP Concluding notes Chapter 4: Communicating containment and the Alliance for Progress Ideological and practical factors Alliance for Progress as a propagandist narrative The "equal partnership" discourse Mediatised development Lessons from the Alliance Chapter 5: News coverage of foreign aid: a case study of the Millennium Village Project in African, US and UK media Background to the chapter: the many problems of news coverage of foreign aid The case of the Millennium Villages Project Background on the MVP About this study African Press Coverage of the villages US/UK coverage of the MVP Early stages: ideologies and personalities as news Second phase: critical voices from the blogosphere Third phase: The Idealist Constraints on media reporting Conclusion Disclaimer Chapter 6: Disempowering news: the feminization of development The feminisation of poverty "Empowering" women for less gender justice? Gendered news practices Chapter 7: New technologies for old ideas An ICT-driven new economy Technology as geopolitics Technology as colonial legitimisation Technology without politics? Chapter 8: Malthusianism and news framing of population growth Shifting the blame Legitimising racism Malthusianism returns as the Bell Curve Towards a better news articulation of population issues Conclusion: Beyond the North-to-South lecture: can the news media ever get to the core of development? Us-versus-them propaganda What is being `sold What is being missed Where to from here? References Index
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