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This edited collection seeks to better understand how journalism across cultures differs, presenting an in-depth exploration of global practices that departs from the typical Western-centric approach. Journalists across the world are trained, generally speaking, within Western models of reporting and are taught to do so as a practice where reporters need to aspire and aim for. Yet what such training is short of achieving is teaching reporters how to 'do' journalism within their own environments. In turn, what is required is a method of journalistic training and practice that is reflective of the actual practice reporters encounter on the ground. In order to do so, a better understanding of how journalism is practised in different parts of the world, the context surrounding such practices, the issues and challenges associated, and the positive practices that Western journalism can offer, is necessary. Promoting and deploying a culturally-specific and politically-relevant journalism, this book provides just that. Saba Bebawi is Professor of Journalism at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has published on media power and the role of media in democracy-building, in addition to investigative journalism in conflict and post-conflict regions. Oxana Onilov is a social researcher with a PhD in communication and media studies from the University of Technology Sydney. She has worked as a researcher on various topics, including the role of social media in protest participation, health communication and measurement and evaluation of communication. .

Introduction -- Interactions and Challenges. Journalism during the Arab Spring: Interactions and Challenges / Diana Bossio -- The Context for Discussion of the Arab Spring Protests -- Interaction between Journalists and Activists During the Arab Spring -- Social Media Revolutions? -- The Interaction between Journalists and Activists During the Arab Spring -- The Arab Spring on Twitter: Language Communities in #egypt and #libya / Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield -- Al Jazeera English's Networked Journalism During the 2011 Egyptian Uprising / William Lafi Youmans -- Networked Journalism -- Al Jazeera English and Networked Journalism -- Political effects. Syrian activists in Russia: the Limits of Visibility in a Hostile Host Country / Mervi Pantti and Evgeniya Boklage -- Diaspora Activism as Personalised Civic Action -- Publicising the Protest: the Syrian diaspora as a key activist cluster -- Media Activism in the Syrian Diaspora in Russia -- Practices and Networks -- Online and Offline Mobilisation of Support -- High-risk Activism in Russia -- Twitter-ized Revolution: Extending the Governance Empire / Robert Imre and Stephen Owen -- The Revolution will (not) be Tweeted: Protests and Political Mobilisation in Iran -- Protests and Cyber-utopianism in the Ukraine: the Orange revolution -- Ukrainian and Iranian Protests and the Problematisation of Online Networks -- Predicting the Future. A Shift in Media Power: The Mediated Public Sphere During the "Arab Spring" / Saba Bebawi -- Centres of Power and the Public Sphere -- Institutional Journalists using Social Media -- Social Media using Institutional Media Reports -- Social Media as Independent Media --A Power Shift?

This open access book is a rare example of the ethnographic study of investigative journalism. This book explores entrepreneurial attempts to combine traditional investigative journalism with alternative ways of organising this work. It transcends watershed investigative projects in favour of the ways in which new actors (citizens, technologists, bloggers and local reporters, among others) join experienced investigative journalists in experiments with the practices of watchdog journalism in the digital era. Cases include Bristol Cable, Bureau Local and the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism, as well as Forbidden Stories. The book also includes two chapters on the impact of COVID-19 upon the development of cross-disciplinary work in a traditional newsroom and in the larger media ecosystems of both Norway and China. This is a timely book for journalism students, scholars and investigative reporters, who share a passion for this form of journalism.

This open access book is a rare example of the ethnographic study of investigative journalism. This book explores entrepreneurial attempts to combine traditional investigative journalism with alternative ways of organising this work. It transcends watershed investigative projects in favour of the ways in which new actors (citizens, technologists, bloggers and local reporters, among others) join experienced investigative journalists in experiments with the practices of watchdog journalism in the digital era. Cases include Bristol Cable, Bureau Local and the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism, as well as Forbidden Stories. The book also includes two chapters on the impact of COVID-19 upon the development of cross-disciplinary work in a traditional newsroom and in the larger media ecosystems of both Norway and China. This is a timely book for journalism students, scholars and investigative reporters, who share a passion for this form of journalism.

In this article, we suggest that the ideological cultural forces explain the differences in journalism practices in Western and Muslim majority countries (MMC). It is argued that the norms, values, and the deep political culture of the West and MMC have been materialized leading to different types of journalism practices. The statistical analysis of 11,246 interviews from twenty four Western and MMC conducted as part of the second wave of Worlds of Journalism Study demonstrates that journalists' perception of influences, editorial autonomy, and journalistic roles reflect clear varied patterns, which resemble the overall cultural lines that shape their journalistic ideology. This article, we argue, has extended the hierarchical model of influences to embrace the wider regional cultural lines that avoid the trap of national media systems—centrism. Furthermore, it refutes the dominance of a global Western monoculture and, in turn, a singular global journalism practice.