Training into Exchanging

Melissa Wall

Assistant Professor

California State University - Northridge

Turning training into exchanging: Recommendations for Western-funded journalism programs. (1999). Journal of Development Communication, 10(2), 54-64.

Western-funded journalism training has long been a part of the African media scene. Such training remains an important issue today as foreign aid initiatives often use freedom of the press as a yardstick for measuring moves toward a democratic system. Taking into account the criticisms of foreign training as well as the evolution of the theoretical literature on communication and development, this paper proposes a new conceptualization of training as well as ways for carrying out this new approach in the field.