Publications


Peer-reviewed articles

Cheruiyot, David. 2022. “Comparing risks to journalism: Media criticism in the digital hate.” Digital Journalism. Advance online publication:1-20.

Cheruiyot, David, j Siguru Wahutu, Admire Mare, George Ogola, and Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara. 2021. “Making news outside legacy media: Peripheral actors within an African communication ecology.” African Journalism Studies 42 (4):1-14.

Cheruiyot, David. 2021. “The (Other) Anglophone Problem: Charting the Development of a Journalism Subfield.”  African Journalism Studies:1-12. doi: 10.1080/23743670.2021.1939750.

Cheruiyot, David, and Raul Ferrer-Conill. 2020. “Pathway outta pigeonhole? De-contextualizing Majority World Countries.”  Media, Culture & Society 43 (1):189-197. doi: 10.1177/0163443720960907.

Cheruiyot, David, and Charu Uppal. 2019. “Pan-Africanism as a laughing matter: (Funny) expressions of African identity on Twitter.”  Journal of African Media Studies 11 (2):257-274. doi: 10.1386/jams.11.2.257_1.

Uppal, Charu, Paola Sartoretto, and David Cheruiyot. 2019. “The case for communication rights: A rights-based approach to media development.”  Global Media and Communication 15 (3):323-343. doi: 10.1177/1742766519871686.

Nothias, Toussaint, and David Cheruiyot. 2019. “A “hotbed” of digital empowerment? Media criticism in Kenya between playful engagement and co-option.”  International Journal of Communication 13 (2019):136–159.

Cheruiyot, David, Stefan Baack, and Raul Ferrer-Conill. 2019. “Data Journalism Beyond Legacy Media: The case of African and European Civic Technology Organizations.”  Digital Journalism Advance online publication:1-15. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2019.1591166.

Cheruiyot, David and Ferrer-Conill, Raul. 2018. (in press) “Fact-checking Africa: Epistemologies, data, and the expansion of journalistic discourse.” Digital Journalism.

Cheruiyot, David. 2018. “Popular Criticism That Matters: Journalists’ perspectives of “quality” media critique.” Journalism Practice:1-11. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2018.1494511.

Cheruiyot, David. 2017. “Do bloggers who criticize the press ultimately matter? (Re)defining media accountability in the age of citizen participation.”  Comunicació: Revista de Recerca i d’Anàlisi [Societat Catalana de Comunicació] 34 (1):107-121. doi: 10.2436/20.3008.01.157.


Book Chapters

Baack, Stefan, David Cheruiyot, and Raul Ferrer-Conill. 2022. “Journalism is not a one-way street: Recognizing multi-directional dynamics.” In The Institutions Changing Journalism, edited by Scott Eldridge II and Patrick Ferrucci, 103-117. Routledge.

Cheruiyot, David. 2018. (in press). “Media criticism in the African journalistic culture: An inventory of media accountability practices in Kenya.” In Media Accountability at the Crossroads: European Challenges and Perspectives, edited by Tobias Eberwein, Susanne Fengler and Matthias Karmasin, 0-0. London, U.K.: Routledge.

Cheruiyot, David. & Uppal, Charu. (in press). “Pan-Africanism as a laughing matter: (Funny) Expressions of African identity on Twitter”. In T. Ngomba, P.  Nielsen & J.  Gustafsson, Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistances in the 21st Century (1st ed.). Gothenburg: Nordicom.


Book reviews

Cheruiyot, David. “Book Review: Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century: From the “Heart of Darkness” to “Africa Rising” by Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks, and Chris Paterson.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 0 (0):1077699018763308. doi: 10.1177/1077699018763308.

Cheruiyot, David. 2021. “Book Review: Magda Konieczna, Journalism Without Profit: Making News When the Market Fails.” International Journal of Communication. Vol. 15, 2021

Cheruiyot, David. 2021. “Book Review: Academic Knowledge Production and the Global South: Questioning Inequality and Under-Representation, by Márton Demeter.”  Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 98 (3):946-948. doi: 10.1177/1077699021998653.