Journalism Reporting Comparison on China-Tanzania Road Projects A Case Study Based on the Xinhuanet.com (China) and Pambazuka News (Tanzania)

Abstract

For decades, media has been a powerful instrument globally with an advancement of technology which simplifies availability, reliability and accessibility of information particularly in news reporting. This advancement enables societies from different countries and cultures to access news from different media regardless of national boundaries and distance from one place to another. Therefore, this article compares news reporting by Pambazuka News from Tanzania and Xinhuanet.com from China on coverage of China-Tanzania road projects. China-Tanzania road projects are the project contracted between Chinese companies and Tanzania government. This comparison is parallel with the objective of the article which is to analyze journalism reporting between the two media. Pambazuka News is an independent media from Tanzania, while Xinhuanet.com is the state owned media and controlled news agency from China. Both publish news in different languages, but for this case study, was based on English publications, distribution electronically and on their websites. The research paper content contains introduction on how did the two countries established friendship, research methodology, and journalism differences of reporting between Xinhuanet.com and Pambazuka News. Others are reporting types, pictures, layout, type of articles, content and title analysis, themes, and why the two media differ in their style of reporting before conclusion. The study finds that, information published by Pambazuka News has more comparative advantage, more analytical and objective with more detailed than Xinhuanet.com. It further revealed that, Pambazuka News consulted more sources, well detailed stories in terms of figures in its publication than Xinhuanet.com which depended only on government sources of information.

Keyword: Journalism reporting, road projects, analysis, source, news,