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The Globalization of News
Edited by:
- Oliver Boyd-Barrett - Bowling Green State University, USA
- Terhi Rantanen - London School of Economics, UK, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
October 1998 | 240 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The Globalization of News gives a comprehensive overview of those media organizations, the news agencies, which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political, economic, and cultural studies perspectives, this book
+ Reviews agency provision of general, video, and financial news
+ Analyzes the relationship between news agencies, nation-states, and "retail" media
+ Critically examines the impact of deregulation and globalization on the news agency business
Contributors consider how leading players like Reuters and Associated Press help to define the nature of both the global and the local as well as focusing on the network of relations between international and national agencies. The book also takes into account the attempts by some national news agencies to establish radically different news agendas.
Demonstrating how news agencies have contributed both to the process of globalization and, simultaneously, to the process of national construction, this book provides an important critical survey of the contemporary international news business. The Globalization of News will be welcomed by all undergraduate and post-graduate students of media studies and international communication.
Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen
The Globalization of News
PART ONE: NEWS AGENCIES AS AGENTS OF GLOBALIZATION
Introduction
Oliver Boyd-Barrett
`Global' News Agencies
Terhi Rantanen
The Struggle for Control of Domestic News Markets (1)
J[um]urgen Wilke
The Struggle for Control of Domestic News Markets (2)
Michael Palmer, Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen
Global Financial News
Chris Paterson
Global Battlefields
PART TWO: NEWS AGENCIES IN THE FURNACE OF POLITICAL TRANSITION
Ingrid Schulze-Schneider
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Terhi Rantanen
From Communism to Captialism
Ullamaija Kivikuru
From State Socialism to Deregulation
Derek Forbes
From Apartheid to Pluralism
PART THREE: DEFINING NEWS: CONTESTATION AND CONSTRUCTION
Introduction
Michael Palmer
What Makes News
C Anthony Giffard
Alternative News Agencies
Stig Hjavard
TV News Exchange