About this episode

The episode discusses China's strategies for media influence globally, particularly through journalist training in Africa, featuring insights from Dr Emeka Umejei.

In 2022, Freedom House released a report titled “Beijing's Global Media Influence 2022”, highlighting the numerous ways in which the Chinese government seeks to influence media across the world. They stated that China’s main tactics were the mass distribution of content, harassment and intimidation of outlets that publish negative news, disinformation campaigns, and training for media workers and officials in different locales. The provision of free or subsidised training for local journalis...

People in this episode

Host: Edi Obiakpani

Guest: Dr Emeka Umejei

Topics covered

• media influence
• foreign policy
• journalism training
• China
• Africa
• disinformation
• government tactics

Keywords

• China
• media influence
• journalism training
• Africa
• disinformation
• Freedom House
• foreign policy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Freedom House, Chinese government

Books & works: Beijing's Global Media Influence 2022

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