Adopting an interdisciplinary approach by situating itself in the fields of post-colonial theory and journalism studies, this project studies historical legacies of colonialism to gain an understanding of contemporary global power relations and how media are entangled in them. The empirical focus is on the capital of DR Congo, Kinshasa, which forms the heart of the country’s political activity and media production, hosting the main newspaper titles and online media initiatives. By working in a multi-methodological way, we first focused on the contemporary representations of Belgo-Congolese relations in the Congolese print and online press by doing a quantitative and qualitative content analysis. Secondly, we asked the question how these representations are guided by the production practices through several terms of reconstruction and in-depth interviews with journalists and other relevant media actors in Kinshasa, in addition to ethnographic newsroom observations to have a more comprehensive take on the production context.