Cambridge Scholars Publishing Conflict Reporting Strategies and the Identities of Ethnic and Religious Communities in Jos, Nigeria

This book examines journalistic strategies in terms of the appropriation of media logics in the conflict frame-building process. Relying on three models (objectivity, mediatisation and news framing), it interrogates the role orientations and performance of journalists who reported the conflict involving the ‘indigenous’ Christians and Hausa Fulani Muslim ‘settlers’ of Jos, a city in North Central Nigeria inhabited by approximately one million people. The book provides empirical evidence of the strategies and the representations of ethnic and religious identities in the conflict narratives focusing on the most-cited and vicious conflicts in Jos which occurred in 2001, 2008 and 2010. Thus, mediatised conflict research is revisited, placing media logics at the heart of the conflict. The text proposes Solutions-Review Journalism (SRJ) as a framework for conflict reporting, and argues that a review process is necessary to measure impact. About the Author Dr Godfrey Naanlang Danaan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Jos, Nigeria. He studied Mass Communication at the University of Jos and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and received professional training in Journalism at the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University, USA. He obtained his PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Salford, UK, having worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the Plateau State University, Nigeria, Bingham University, Nigeria, and the National Open University of Nigeria. He is the editor of the Jos Journal of Media and Communication Studies (JJMCS) and has 16 years’ experience of teaching at the University of Jos. He has published several journal articles and book chapters on a range of topics, including media research, mediatisation, and conflict journalism, and he is a member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He is a freelance writer for the Catholic Herald, and the co-editor of Understanding the Newspaper Business in Nigeria: A Resource Book (2016).