News Coverage of Boko Haram

Understanding News Coverage of Religious-Based Violence: Empirical and Theoretical Insights from Media Representations of Boko Haram in Nigeria

Combining content analysis with in-depth interviews with journalists and editors, this article shows how religious-based violence is framed, how editorial choices and professional constraints shape coverage, and what this means for our theoretical understanding of conflict coverage.

August 2020 · Leila Demarest, Amélie Godefroidt, Arnim Langer