As news organizations cut correspondent posts and foreign bureaux, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have begun to expand into news reporting. Why and how do journalists use the photographs, video, and audio that NGOs produce? What effects does this have on the kinds of stories told about Africa? And how have these developments changed the nature of journalism and NGO-work?

Who’s Reporting Africa Now?: Non-Governmental Organizations, Journalists, and Multimedia is the first book to address these questions—using frank interviews and internal documents to shed light on the workings of major news organizations and NGOs, collaborating with one another in specific news production processes. These contrasting case studies are used to illuminate the complex moral and political economies underpinning such journalism, involving not only NGO press officers and journalists but also field workers, freelancers, private foundations, social media participants, businesspeople, and advertising executives.

"This book is essential reading for anyone interested in human rights media, African studies, or international journalism in the digital age." —Lindsay Palmer, International Journal of Communication 13(2019)
"Who’s Reporting Africa Now will make engrossing reading for anyone involved or interested in the production of news relating to the continent, whether they work in a newsroom, an NGO, or somewhere on that boundary. Wright’s detailed examination of each case study, right down to the individual translators, freelancers, fixers and fieldworkers involved in creating and pushing stories in each case study will provide generous material for discussion on both sides of the increasingly porous border between news and NGO communication." —Richard Stupart, Africa at LSE Blog, 1/26/2019

An award-winning journalist, Kate Wright worked on the BBC’s Africa desk. After gaining her PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London, she took up a position as Chancellor’s Fellow in the Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh.