Douglas, Omega. 2026. Who decides what’s news these days? The Guardian, ISSN 0261-3077
Douglas, Omega. 2026. Marking Linton’s Legacy. Representology, 9, pp. 26-30.
Douglas, Omega. 2026. The Image of Black Western Journalists in Novels: Fact or Fiction? The IJPC Journal, 11-12, pp. 145-167. ISSN 1932-8036
Douglas, Omega. 2022. The media diversity and inclusion paradox: Experiences of black and brown journalists in mainstream British news institutions. Journalism, 23(10), pp. 2096-2113. ISSN 1464-8849
Douglas, Omega. 2021. The media diversity and inclusion paradox: there is a disconnect between expressed commitments to diversity and the experiences of journalists of colour. LSE British Politics and Policy,
Book
Douglas, Omega. 2025. The Racial Dynamics of Reporting Africa: Colonial and Decolonial Practices in Mainstream Western News Media. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781032569451
Douglas, Omega and Phillips, Angela. 2022. Journalism, Culture and Society: A Critical Theoretical Approach to Global Journalistic Practice. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367480240
Book Section
Douglas, Omega. 2026. Decolonial Journalistic Field Theory: A Toolkit for Unpacking Colonial and Decolonial Practices in Journalism. In: Kehbuma Langmia, ed. De Gruyter Handbook of Media and Social Change in the Global South. Berlin: De Gruyter/Brill, pp. 433-462. ISBN 9783111438801
Douglas, Omega. 2025. The Black British Press. In: Des (D. J.) Freedman and Michael Klontzas, eds. Media Pasts and Futures: Critical Reflections on Power Without Responsibility. Â鶹¹ÙÍø: University of Westminster Press, pp. 151-156. ISBN 9781915445643
Daniels, Glenda and Douglas, Omega. 2024. It’s Rife: The Online Bullying of Women Journalists in Africa: What Is to Be Done? In: Bruce Mutsvairo and Kristin Skare Orgeret, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Digital Journalism. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 143-159. ISBN 9783031593789
Conference or Workshop Item
Douglas, Omega. 2026. 'Roundtable on the Media Image of Africa in International News'. In: Race and Media Conference. University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom 21-23 April 2026.
Douglas, Omega. 2025. 'Towards a Decolonised Journalism: Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition'. In: Towards a Decolonised Journalism: Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition. Â鶹¹ÙÍø, Â鶹¹ÙÍø, United Kingdom 8 October 2025.
Douglas, Omega. 2024. 'Theory in Practice: How Feminist and Decolonization Movements Shape Media Ecologies and Representation'. In: AWiM24: Media and Sustainability. Dakar, Senegal 5 - 6 December 2024.
Douglas, Omega. 2024. 'Colonial continuities and discontinuities in British journalism'. In: ECREA Journalism 2024. University of Sheffield, United Kingdom 11 April 2024.
Douglas, Omega. 2023. 'The online harassment of African women journalists'. In: AWiM 2023 Conference. Kigali, Rwanda 30 November - 1 December 2023.
Douglas, Omega. 2022. 'Radical Journalism: Then and Now'. In: Power Without Responsibility 5 - Radical Journalism: Then and Now. Online, United Kingdom 19 May 2022.
Mendoza, Kerry-Anne; Kumanyika, Chenjerai; Jackson, Sarah J. and Douglas, Omega. 2021. 'Do Black Lives Matter in the Media?'. In: Media Democracy Festival 2021. Online, United Kingdom 15 - 20 March 2021.
Douglas, Omega. 2021. 'Foreign News Coverage at the Guardian Newspaper'. In: Foreign News Coverage at the Guardian Newspaper. United Kingdom.
Goodfellow, Maya; Douglas, Omega; Hamid, Rizwana and Massoumi, Narzanin. 2020. 'Media, Race and Religion: Silences and Scapegoats'. In: Media, Race and Religion: Silences and Scapegoats. Online, United Kingdom 11 June 2020.
Douglas, Omega. 2015. 'Postcolonial Perspectives on Development Achievements, Future Relevance and Possible Directions'. In: Third Joint Nordic Conference on Development Research. University of Gothenburg, Sweden 5-6 November 2015.
Film/Video
Douglas, Omega. 2022. How Racialised Hierarchies are Playing out in the Russia-Ukraine War.
Report
Posetti, Julie; Shabbir, Nabeelah; Douglas, Omega and Gardiner, Becky. 2022. The Chilling: A Global Â鶹¹ÙÍø of Online Violence Against Women Journalists. Project Report. International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), UNESCO, Washington, DC.
Freedman, Des (D. J.); Tryhorn, Chris; Goblot, Vana; Born, Georgina; Loughrey, Pat; Chitty, Andrew; Griffee, Andrew; Watson, Neil; Clayton, Sue; Normington, David; Douglas, Omega and O’Neill, Onora. 2016. A Future for Public Service Television: Content and Platforms in a Digital World. Project Report.
Thesis
Douglas, Omega. 2019. Backstories / Black Stories: Black Journalists, INGOs and the Racial Politics of Representing Sub-Saharan Africa in Mainstream UK News Media. Doctoral thesis, Â鶹¹ÙÍø
