Updates
2026
2 Nov, 2026: Our new paper with Zhe Xu, Martin Scott, Kate Wright and Shuai Wang, "Prioritizing journalistic norms or humanitarian values? A multistage computational analysis of journalistic role performance in humanitarian news", is now published open access in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. The new Humanitarian News project page brings together our papers, dataset, replication materials, awards and ongoing work.
30 Oct, 2026: The call for papers is open for African and Global Media Representations of Africa, a special issue of African Journalism Studies that I am co-editing with Sisanda Nkoala and David Cheruiyot. Manuscripts are due by 15 December 2026.
2025
3 Dec, 2025: At the 5th Africa-Spain "Meeting of Journalists" in Madrid, I presented some thoughts on the global "narrative battle" in Africa, and on the news coverage of African countries on YouTube.
16 Sep, 2025: I gave oral evidence to the "Disinformation diplomacy" inquiry of the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. Recording available here.
2024
3 Dec, 2024: I spoke at the Near East Institute's Global Security Seminar Series about Russian and Chinese strategic disinformation narratives. Recording here.
9 Nov, 2024: Research visit at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil — two public lectures on research methods and electoral disinformation in Africa.
2023
26 Oct, 2023: Happy to have been invited for the third time to speak with Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden of The China in Africa Podcast. On this edition, we talked about the changing nature of the CCP's mediated engagement with Africa, Latin America and beyond.
2022
28 Dec, 2022: A new paper co-written with Tetsuro Kobayashi published Open Access in Revista Internacional de Sociología.
30 Nov, 2022: The University of Sheffield hosted the launch of Disinformation in the Global South. Recording on YouTube.
2021
13 May, 2021: Study on the influence of Chinese media on African news content during COVID-19 published in Global Media and China. Full text here. Replication code on GitHub.
10 Feb, 2021: International Journal of Communication published a Special Issue on comparative approaches to misinformation, including my six-country study.
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4 Oct, 2019: Presented multi-country findings on dis- and mis-information sharing in Sub-Saharan Africa at the Comparative Approaches to Disinformation Workshop at Harvard University. Slides here.
18 Oct, 2018: My research with Herman Wasserman on Chinese media in Kenya and South Africa featured in The Economist.