LEADER 04539nam 22006615 450 001 9910299996303321 005 20230810191959.0 010 $a9783319618906 010 $a3319618903 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-61890-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000000882640 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-61890-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5106092 035 $a(Perlego)3490709 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000882640 100 $a20171014d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPrivate Print Media, the State and Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe /$fby Sylvester Dombo 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (XVII, 277 p.) 311 08$a9783319618890 311 08$a331961889X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Colonialism and the Development of the Press in Zimbabwe -- 3. African Newspapers and the Development of the Private Press in Rhodesia -- 4. African Daily News and Early-African Politics in Rhodesia -- 5. 'We are at a political crossroad': Press and Politics in Rhodesia, 1958-1964 -- 6. Press and Politics in Independent Zimbabwe to 1999 -- 7. 'Telling It like It Is?': the Daily News and Zimbabwean Political Crisis to 2000 -- 8. 'Uneasy Bedfellows': The Daily News and The State 1999-2003 -- 9. Predictable and Unavoidable: the Closure of the African Daily News and Daily News -- 10. The Rise of the Alternative Media -- 11. Press and Politics in Zimbabwe: Concluding Remarks. 330 $aThis book examines the role played by two popular private newspapers in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, one case from colonial Rhodesia and the other from the post-colonial era. It argues that, operating under oppressive political regimes and in the dearth of credible opposition political parties or as a platform for opposition political parties, the African Daily News, between 1956-1964, and the Daily News, between 1999-2003, played an essential role in opening up spaces for political freedom in the country. Both newspapers were ultimately shut down by the respective government of the time. The newspapers allowed reading publics the opportunity to participate in politics by providing a daily analytical alternative, to that offered by the government and the state media, in relation to the respective political crises that unfolded in each of these periods. The book further examines both the information policies pursued by the different governments and the way these affected the functioning of private media in their quest to provide an "ideal" public sphere. It explores issues of ownership, funding and editorial policies in reference to each case and how these affected the production of news and issue coverage. It considers issues of class and geography in shaping public response. It also focuses on state reactions to the activities of these newspapers and how these, in turn, affected the activities of private media actors. Finally, it considers the cases together to consider the meanings of the closing down of these newspapers during the two eras under discussion and contributes to the debates about print media vis-à-vis the new forms of media that have come to the fore. 606 $aJournalism 606 $aEthnology$zAfrica 606 $aCulture 606 $aCommunication in economic development 606 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government 606 $aCommunication 606 $aJournalism 606 $aAfrican Culture 606 $aDevelopment Communication 606 $aAfrican Politics 606 $aMedia and Communication 615 0$aJournalism. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aCommunication in economic development. 615 0$aAfrica$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aCommunication. 615 14$aJournalism. 615 24$aAfrican Culture. 615 24$aDevelopment Communication. 615 24$aAfrican Politics. 615 24$aMedia and Communication. 676 $a320.96891 700 $aDombo$b Sylvester$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01000318 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299996303321 996 $aPrivate Print Media, the State and Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe$92296008 997 $aUNINA