1st Edition
Revisiting Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News Landscape
Introduction: The Case for a Revision
1. Tracing the Evolution of Peace Journalism
2. The Intricacies of the Kenyan Case
3. A Concept in Motion
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Cecilia Arregui Olivera is a research assistant at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research centres on news media production practices in situations of violent conflict, foreign news reporting, and journalistic roles. She teaches at the Erasmus Mundus Journalism programme and several other courses that delve into journalistic practice and video production. Born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, Cecilia worked as a journalist and video editor for national and international news media, including El Observador, Storyhunter, and CNN En Español, before starting her academic career.
“Cecilia Arregui extends and deepens our understanding of Peace Journalism by considering how its distinctions of representation mesh with the complex, shifting, and multifarious array of factors that shape journalistic work and role perceptions in a newsroom under the pressure of reporting deadly conflict. The conceptual and idiographic content enhance each other to enable a nuanced awareness of prospects for implementation in the news that shapes perceptions among conflict actors on many levels.”
- Professor Jake Lynch, University of Sydney, Australia
“In this phenomenal book, Cecilia provides a rich documentation of journalists’ accounts of their understanding and interpretation of Peace Journalism within the Kenyan context. As she rightly observes, Peace Journalism cannot be conceived in a universal one-size-fits-all manner, hence the rationale for her call to revisit the concept.”
- Dr. Jacinta Maweu, Senior Lecturer, University of Nairobi, Kenya
