Journal of Mass Communication & Journalism

Yeshiwas Degu Belay

Publications

• Research Article
  Mass Media in Nile Politics: The Reporter Coverage of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
  Author(s): Yeshiwas Degu BelayYeshiwas Degu Belay
  
  The ‘Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’ project, started in 2011 on Blue Nile (Abay) trans-boundary River with tense political confrontation with Egypt, has received sizeable national and international media coverage in a manner of introducing customers and depicting vital and selected details about the project Nevertheless, it remains understudied, if not neglected, issue in media research. This article examines The Reporter, private owned national circulation newspaper, salient frames pertain to the dam project and how these frames reflect Ethiopian government dominant perspectives on Nile politics. To this end, a longitudinal qualitative content analysis of articles in thereporterethiopia.com dated between 09th March 2013 and 15th March 2014 was conducted. The findings reveal that six dominant frames emerged inductively from the data that rendered certain aspects of the d.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7912.1000197

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