Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy - Lessons from Journalists in East Africa

Based on surveys and interviews with journalists in three East African nations (Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya) that have had varying degrees of civil conflict, this book explores how conflict and democratization overlap with the news media and press freedom. The book provides an updated state of press freedom in these three countries and shows how a nation’s political and cultural intricacies complicate traditional media development frameworks and notions of press freedom. The ebb-and-flow of media freedoms in these countries calls for historically informed views of media systems, so this book provides a set of factors to consider when trying to understand press freedom outside the Western world.