Danford Zirugo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4466534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danford Zirugo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danford |
| FAMILY NAME | Zirugo |
| SIGNATURE | ZIRUGO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5129-1616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pernicious Polarization, Journalistic Professionalization, and Interpretive Community Structures Beyond Liberal Democracies: A Case of Zimbabwe
Using the case of Zimbabwe, this study explores how patrimonial and clientelist press relations born out of various forms of media capture and other forms of press repression intersect to undermine professionalization of the journalism field and alter structures of journalistic interpretive communities beyond liberal democracies. Taking a mixed-method approach, the study combines data from textual analysis of journalistic and non-journalistic act…
The Clashing Roles and Logics of Marginalized Journalists: Comparing the Cases of Zimbabwean Journalists and Black U.S. Journalists
Media Capture and Journalistic Role Conceptualizations Under Transitional Contexts: The Case of Zimbabwe
Combining textual analysis and interviews, this study extends journalistic role conceptualization research not only to Zimbabwe but also to nonjournalistic actors by examining Zimbabwean press freedom debates generated between 1993 and 2023. Results show how the country’s public press uses a nationalistic ideology to redefine and legitimize loyal facilitation as a Fourth Estate role, while the private press uses a liberal ideology to extend advoc…
Cultural Journalism’s Double Duty: Holding Elites Accountable and Fighting Cultural Imperialism—Insights from Zimbabwe
Reconceptualizing Journalists as a Fractured Interpretive Community: Updating the Journalistic Interpretive Community Framework for the 21st Century
Taking a discursive approach, this study applies the concept of metajournalistic discourse to the study of press freedom debates in a postcolonial context stretching from 1993 to 2023 between the Zimbabwean public and private press. Based on a textual analysis of press freedom debates, combined with interviews with various news media stakeholders held between December 2022 and January 2023 in Harare, the study finds support for the previous argum…
Political Economy, Ethnocentrism and big Brother Mentality in Framing Xenophobia: South African, Zimbabwean and Nigerian Newspapers
Using textual analysis, this study compares and contrasts how newspapers from Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa—countries at the centre of the September 2019 xenophobic attacks in South Africa—under different ownership patterns defined the problem of xenophobia, its causes and solutions. Understanding how xenophobia was framed is important, for it has implications on policy formulations in dealing with immigration. The study finds that although …
Who gets to speak? Sources in Covid-19 news coverage by Kenyan and Zimbabwean press
Employing the hierarchy of influences model this study examines source use in Covid-19 news coverage by Kenyan and Zimbabwean newspapers, an understudied area in Africa. A quantitative content analysis (N = 557) revealed the dominance of elites and men as sources and reporters. Women as sources were absent in 72% of all news stories while ordinary voices were present in only 9.3%. The voices of Covid-19 affected (victims and families of the sick/…
Subverting Journalistic Routines: When Political Satire Intervenes to Challenge Public Broadcasting National Discourses
Comparing and contrasting the journalistic routines that manifest in a Zimbabwean political satire show, The Week with Cde Fatso, and those manifesting in content from the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation Television, the study argues that political satire’s alternativeness as a form of journalism lies in its journalistic role performance. By subverting conventional journalistic routines, satire can offer an alternative version of journalism that…
Subordinating Freedom of Expression to Human Dignity: Promoting or Undermining Journalism—A Case of Zimbabwe
Motivated by a 2014 Constitutional Court opinion that under Zimbabwe’s new constitution of 2013, freedom of expression might have to be considered as subordinate to human dignity, the study analyses the implications of this on journalistic practice. The study argues that such a move would undermine watchdog journalism, thereby limiting people’s freedom of expression right to receive information. This is based on a textual analysis of Zimbabwe’s f…
Negative Memory Mobilization: Moments of Journalistic Failure as an Interpretive Lens
While ample scholarly attention has focused on how, through commemorative journalism during anniversaries, deaths or retirement, the journalistic community mobilize past accomplishments to bolster their cultural authority, very limited attention has been paid to how the journalistic community can mobilize negative memories in dealing with problematic situations that are similar to past journalistic scandals or shortcomings. Examining how financia…
Journalism Hybridization in Postcolonial Societies: Paradigm Adaptation Tensions in Post-Apartheid South Africa
A news reporting scandal implicating South Africa’s Sunday Times in allegations of facilitating state capture during the regime of former president Jacob Zuma provoked debate over the proper journalistic practice, roles and guiding ethical values between journalists and press critics (e.g., academics). The majority of journalists defended the liberal normative news paradigm, while others joined hands with academics in questioning some of the norm…
Journalism Hybridization in Postcolonial Societies: Paradigm Adaptation Tensions in Post-Apartheid South Africa
A news reporting scandal implicating South Africa’s Sunday Times in allegations of facilitating state capture during the regime of former president Jacob Zuma provoked debate over the proper journalistic practice, roles and guiding ethical values between journalists and press critics (e.g., academics). The majority of journalists defended the liberal normative news paradigm, while others joined hands with academics in questioning some of the norm…
Reconceptualizing Journalists as a Fractured Interpretive Community: Updating the Journalistic Interpretive Community Framework for the 21st Century
Taking a discursive approach, this study applies the concept of metajournalistic discourse to the study of press freedom debates in a postcolonial context stretching from 1993 to 2023 between the Zimbabwean public and private press. Based on a textual analysis of press freedom debates, combined with interviews with various news media stakeholders held between December 2022 and January 2023 in Harare, the study finds support for the previous argum…
Who gets to speak? Sources in Covid-19 news coverage by Kenyan and Zimbabwean press
Employing the hierarchy of influences model this study examines source use in Covid-19 news coverage by Kenyan and Zimbabwean newspapers, an understudied area in Africa. A quantitative content analysis (N = 557) revealed the dominance of elites and men as sources and reporters. Women as sources were absent in 72% of all news stories while ordinary voices were present in only 9.3%. The voices of Covid-19 affected (victims and families of the sick/…
Subverting Journalistic Routines: When Political Satire Intervenes to Challenge Public Broadcasting National Discourses
Comparing and contrasting the journalistic routines that manifest in a Zimbabwean political satire show, The Week with Cde Fatso, and those manifesting in content from the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation Television, the study argues that political satire’s alternativeness as a form of journalism lies in its journalistic role performance. By subverting conventional journalistic routines, satire can offer an alternative version of journalism that…
Subordinating Freedom of Expression to Human Dignity: Promoting or Undermining Journalism—A Case of Zimbabwe
Motivated by a 2014 Constitutional Court opinion that under Zimbabwe’s new constitution of 2013, freedom of expression might have to be considered as subordinate to human dignity, the study analyses the implications of this on journalistic practice. The study argues that such a move would undermine watchdog journalism, thereby limiting people’s freedom of expression right to receive information. This is based on a textual analysis of Zimbabwe’s f…
Negative Memory Mobilization: Moments of Journalistic Failure as an Interpretive Lens
While ample scholarly attention has focused on how, through commemorative journalism during anniversaries, deaths or retirement, the journalistic community mobilize past accomplishments to bolster their cultural authority, very limited attention has been paid to how the journalistic community can mobilize negative memories in dealing with problematic situations that are similar to past journalistic scandals or shortcomings. Examining how financia…
Journalism Hybridization in Postcolonial Societies: Paradigm Adaptation Tensions in Post-Apartheid South Africa
A news reporting scandal implicating South Africa’s Sunday Times in allegations of facilitating state capture during the regime of former president Jacob Zuma provoked debate over the proper journalistic practice, roles and guiding ethical values between journalists and press critics (e.g., academics). The majority of journalists defended the liberal normative news paradigm, while others joined hands with academics in questioning some of the norm…
Political Economy, Ethnocentrism and big Brother Mentality in Framing Xenophobia: South African, Zimbabwean and Nigerian Newspapers
Using textual analysis, this study compares and contrasts how newspapers from Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa—countries at the centre of the September 2019 xenophobic attacks in South Africa—under different ownership patterns defined the problem of xenophobia, its causes and solutions. Understanding how xenophobia was framed is important, for it has implications on policy formulations in dealing with immigration. The study finds that although …
Who gets to speak? Sources in Covid-19 news coverage by Kenyan and Zimbabwean press
Employing the hierarchy of influences model this study examines source use in Covid-19 news coverage by Kenyan and Zimbabwean newspapers, an understudied area in Africa. A quantitative content analysis (N = 557) revealed the dominance of elites and men as sources and reporters. Women as sources were absent in 72% of all news stories while ordinary voices were present in only 9.3%. The voices of Covid-19 affected (victims and families of the sick/…
Reconceptualizing Journalists as a Fractured Interpretive Community: Updating the Journalistic Interpretive Community Framework for the 21st Century
Taking a discursive approach, this study applies the concept of metajournalistic discourse to the study of press freedom debates in a postcolonial context stretching from 1993 to 2023 between the Zimbabwean public and private press. Based on a textual analysis of press freedom debates, combined with interviews with various news media stakeholders held between December 2022 and January 2023 in Harare, the study finds support for the previous argum…
Media Capture and Journalistic Role Conceptualizations Under Transitional Contexts: The Case of Zimbabwe
Combining textual analysis and interviews, this study extends journalistic role conceptualization research not only to Zimbabwe but also to nonjournalistic actors by examining Zimbabwean press freedom debates generated between 1993 and 2023. Results show how the country’s public press uses a nationalistic ideology to redefine and legitimize loyal facilitation as a Fourth Estate role, while the private press uses a liberal ideology to extend advoc…
Cultural Journalism’s Double Duty: Holding Elites Accountable and Fighting Cultural Imperialism—Insights from Zimbabwe
Pernicious Polarization, Journalistic Professionalization, and Interpretive Community Structures Beyond Liberal Democracies: A Case of Zimbabwe
Using the case of Zimbabwe, this study explores how patrimonial and clientelist press relations born out of various forms of media capture and other forms of press repression intersect to undermine professionalization of the journalism field and alter structures of journalistic interpretive communities beyond liberal democracies. Taking a mixed-method approach, the study combines data from textual analysis of journalistic and non-journalistic act…
The Clashing Roles and Logics of Marginalized Journalists: Comparing the Cases of Zimbabwean Journalists and Black U.S. Journalists
Media Studies and Communication (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Media studies (7 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Media Influence and Politics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Journalism (5 works) · Law (3 works)