Article ID: CBB001422666

The Cold War Battle over Global News in East Africa: Decolonization, the Free Flow of Information, and the Media Business, 1960--1980 (2015)

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This article examines the news business in Africa during decolonization. While UNESCO stimulated enormous discussion about creating independent `third world' alternatives for news exchange, African countries such as Kenya and Tanzania sought to secure informational sovereignty by placing international news agencies within their control. Reuters and other international news agencies, in turn, adapted to decolonization by reinventing themselves as companies working to assist new nation-states. In the subsequent contest over news distribution, the Cold War, and inter-agency competition, Africa became a battleground for disputes between Reuters' capitalist vision of news as a commercial product and UNESCO's political conception of news. Ironically, decolonization enabled Reuters to gain greater control over information supply across Africa, because African leaders viewed the capitalist model of news as better suited to their diplomatic goals and political views.

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Authors & Contributors
Bruner, Justin P.
Bellido, Jose
James Owen Weatherall
O'Connor, Cailin
Asseraf, Arthur
Traugh, Geoffrey
Concepts
Methods of communication; media
Globalization; internationalization
Information technology
Journalism
Technology and society
Postcolonialism
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
East Africa
South Asia
Atlantic Ocean
West Africa
South Africa
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
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