🚨 BREAKING 🚨 We are thrilled to announce that the Digital News Report 2023 will be published on Weds. 14 June. As part of the launch, we are hosting 6 global launch events with a focus on different regions 🧵Full details in the thread below reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/digital-n…

New publication! Evaluating Military Use of Social Media for Political Branding during Online Firestorms: An Analysis of the Afghan Troops Withdrawal tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

JUST IN: President Bola Tinubu To Inaugurate The National Economic Council Today

New Publication! Online Activism and Connective Mourning: An Examination of the #EndSARSMemorial Protests in Nigeria - Temple Uwalaka, Sarah Joe, Fred A. Amadi, Confidence Chinedu Amadi, 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

New Publication! Acute forms of online harassments were dismissed as “online notice-me”. Thereby misrecognising online harassments as forms of media criticism. Beyond “Online Notice-Me”: Analysing Online Harassment Experiences of Journalists in Nigeria tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"When working in a newsroom, you come across things like corporate censorship. You realise advertisers have a disproportionate weight in the news" Five burned out journalists on why they left their dream jobs. A piece by Murillo Camarotto reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/spell-bro…

New Publication! Thank you Nwala Bigman, Wokoro Peter and Gerry Scheetz Amadi for this collaboration. Online harassment of journalists in Nigeria: audience motivations and solutions - Temple Uwalaka, Azubuike Fred Amadi, Bigman Nwala, Peter Wokoro, 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

New Publication! Connective Mourning: The Case of Mourning and Memorialization Practices on X - Temple Uwalaka, 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

New publication in African Journalism Studies (AJS) "One Finger Picks Oil, It Reaches Others”: An Examination of Nigerian Journalists’ Perspective on Motivations for Online Harassment tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this #OnlineFirst and #OpenAccess article, Temple Uwalaka, Azubuike Fred Amadi, Bigman Nwala, and Peter Wokoro interview over 50 Nigerian citizens to uncover the motivations behind - and potential deterrents to - the online harassment of Nigerian journalists tinyurl.com/yfzkbus4

AJS Editor-in-Chief, Herman Wasserman Herman Wasserman presenting the 2024 AJS Best Paper Award to Tammy Matthews Tammy Rae Matthews (she/her) for her paper “Enhancing social change: Nurturing nuanced comm for addressing gender-based violence within Namibian LGBTQI+ communities at ICA conf in GoldCoast

New Publication! Social media influencers and political influence operations: The Data Boys example in Nigeria - Temple Uwalaka, Fred Amadi, Stella C Enyindah, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Hostility towards the Press in Nigeria: Examining Online Responses to the Burning of TVC Headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria - Temple Uwalaka, Fred Amadi, Stella Chinyere Enyindah, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

New Publication! Their responses to the attacked TVC News, created an ‘abusive echo chamber’ where profanities, ad hominem invective, hyperbolic vulgarity and extravagant imagery of violence were present.

‘Just a Vile Behaviour’: Appraising Networked Responses to the Physical Assault of 7News Reporter in Melbourne, Australia - Temple Uwalaka, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Nigerian journalists are harassed by the public, the state and paid ‘data boys’ – what must change theconversation.com/nigerian-journ… via The Conversation Africa