Who constructs Africa's global media image? That is the main focus of this longitudinal study. It looks at both the journalists and the news sources applied in the British press coverage of Africa between 1992 and 2017. Four British national newspapers (The Guardian, Financial Times, The Times, and Daily Mail) and a mixed research approach (content analysis and semi-structured interviews) were used. A total sample of 7027 articles were utilized, while nine journalists were interviewed. This study discovered that the British newspapers’ coverage of Africa was dominated by Western journalists and the news sources used in the articles were a proportionate mixture of both African and Western sources, especially in the quality newspapers. It also uncovered that Africa's global influence, in addition to other factors impact on the UK newspapers’ coverage of Africa. This study concludes that there are some positive changes in the post-colonial British press coverage of Africa, especially in their use of news sources, but there are still some elements of neo-colonialism and racism in the British newspapers’ use of journalists in reporting on Africa.

谁构建了非洲的全球媒体形象？这是这项纵向研究的主要重点。它着眼于 1992 年至 2017 年间英国新闻报道中应用的记者和新闻来源。四家英国国家报纸（《卫报》、《金融时报》、《泰晤士报》和《每日邮报》）和混合研究方法（内容分析和半结构化访谈）。总共使用了 7027 篇文章的样本，同时采访了 9 名记者。本研究发现，英国报纸对非洲的报道以西方记者为主，文章中使用的新闻来源是非洲和西方来源的混合，尤其是在优质报纸中。它还揭示了非洲的全球影响力，除了其他因素影响英国报纸对非洲的报道。本研究得出的结论是，后殖民时代的英国媒体对非洲的报道发生了一些积极的变化，特别是在他们对新闻来源的使用方面，但英国报纸在使用记者进行报道方面仍然存在一些新殖民主义和种族主义的元素。在非洲。