Melissa Wall

Assistant Professor

California State University - Northridge

melissawall@earthlink.net


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Africa in the media

Journalism Training as Ritual. National Communication Association, New Orleans, Forthcoming, November 2002.

Western journalism training in Third World countries has often been perceived as a top-down transmission of information in which the students are passive receivers. This participant observation study argues that such training can be better understood by thinking of the training as a ritual process.