Médiatisation et pratiques de « gate-keeping » dans un contexte d’insécurité: Le cas des animateurs des radios communautaires au Sahel

Based on interviews and observations with media workers from Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, the paper identifies different gatekeeping agents within as well as beoynd the media institutions. Indeed the media and communication ecologies at work in a context marked by a high degree of insecurity demand a set of various gatekeeping measures and strategies - and ways to move beyond them. By media workers, the population using the media, authorities and various armed groups, the military included