%0 Journal Article
%T Cheaper than a goat: U.S. newspaper and television coverage of the southern Sudan conflict
%A Sally Ann Cruikshank
%J Newspaper Research Journal
%@ 2376-4791
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0739532918775679
%X This study examined how eight U.S. news outlets framed the civil war in Sudan from 1989 through 2005. A textual analysis of 851 reports found the media framed it as a religious and ethnic conflict. Three themes also emerged: famine, slavery and oil. The general findings support previous research on how the U.S. media framed conflicts in Africa. However, contrary to other conflicts, the analysis found Sudan¡¯s civil war received steady coverage over time
%K news coverage
%K qualitative
%K textual analysis
%K newspaper
%K television
%K Sudan
%K framing
%K international
%K journalism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0739532918775679