Reporting Tips for African Journalists Covering China
The China in Africa Podcast
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The Negative Narrative of Africa
Critics say there is an agenda embedded within some of the coverage about China or in places like Africa as well. I think that usually an agenda that happens to all sort of seem orchestrated across disparate non-connected organizations like that, you can usually look to a more kind of less malicious explanation and things like this. Most ordinary folks are dependent on the media to shape their views of this distant place. A lot of reporters are frustrated because their stories about more quotidian, more ordinary things don't make page one or they don't make it into the paper at all. There is a kind of bias toward the more sensationalistic and I don't think that the intention is to, you know, what
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