TY - JOUR
T1 - An Examination of the Interaction of Democratic Ideals with Journalism Training Programmes in the Global South
T2 - The Case of Cambodia
AU - Quinn, Fergal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the author.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - The presumption that a liberal media landscape and associated press culture strengthens good governance and human development has approached orthodoxy in the western world. Consistent with this, journalism training has been a central component of media aid strategies in the Global South. This research examines how normative assumptions about journalism roles can interact with ideas about democracy in a training environment and the possible implications of this. It explores parallels between programme elements relating to democracy facilitation and particular role conceptualisations of journalists trained by these programmes, with a specific interest in how this process is borne out in countries where democratisation processes are ongoing. A qualitative-based methodology, using journalism training in Cambodia as a case study, finds some correlations between democracy-related emphases at training level and specific normative orientations among working journalists who participated in these programmes. However, we find that these democratic norm-related orientations of practitioners contain subtle, but key differentiations from those advocated by programme facilitators. A vocational, advocacy-oriented approach to journalism programmes may have contributed to this outcome in a Cambodian context.
AB - The presumption that a liberal media landscape and associated press culture strengthens good governance and human development has approached orthodoxy in the western world. Consistent with this, journalism training has been a central component of media aid strategies in the Global South. This research examines how normative assumptions about journalism roles can interact with ideas about democracy in a training environment and the possible implications of this. It explores parallels between programme elements relating to democracy facilitation and particular role conceptualisations of journalists trained by these programmes, with a specific interest in how this process is borne out in countries where democratisation processes are ongoing. A qualitative-based methodology, using journalism training in Cambodia as a case study, finds some correlations between democracy-related emphases at training level and specific normative orientations among working journalists who participated in these programmes. However, we find that these democratic norm-related orientations of practitioners contain subtle, but key differentiations from those advocated by programme facilitators. A vocational, advocacy-oriented approach to journalism programmes may have contributed to this outcome in a Cambodian context.
KW - case-study
KW - democracy
KW - journalism education
KW - journalism norms
KW - qualitative research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133637873&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/journalmedia1010011
DO - 10.3390/journalmedia1010011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133637873
SN - 2673-5172
VL - 1
SP - 159
EP - 176
JO - Journalism and Media
JF - Journalism and Media
IS - 1
ER -