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Research into Global South gains new momentum at Northwestern Qatar
13 Jan 2021 - 9:16
The Peninsula
Doha: A new book on data journalism in the Global South by associate professor at Northwestern Qatar, Eddy Borges-Rey (pictured) focuses on the transnational debates on how journalism is taught by exploring overlooked practices and approaches from Chile, Qatar, Zimbabwe, and a host of other regions of the world.
In explaining the rationale behind the project, Borges-Rey emphasized that “there is no longer one single definition of journalism,” adding that “the ideal of journalism constructed after the golden era that followed the 1920s remains important but has become only a portion of a larger, evolving, knowledge-building phenomenon.”