Overview

This volume reveals how the news agencies have contributed both to the process of globalization and to the process of national construction. By both describing and theorizing these media, this book provides a critical survey of the contemporary international news business. The contributors take a look at news agencies from institutional, historical, political, economic and cultural studies perspectives, reviewing agency provision of general news, video news and financial news, analyzing agency-state relations through periods of dramatic social upheaval, and examining the impact of deregulation in both advanced industrial and developing markets. In addition to looking at the leading players like Reuters and Associated Press, the contributors also consider attempts by national news agencies to establish radically different news agendas.

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Author:   Oliver Boyd-Barrett ,  Terhi Rantanen
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780761953876

ISBN 10:   0761953876
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   26 October 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Globalization of News - Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen PART ONE: NEWS AGENCIES AS AGENTS OF GLOBALIZATION Introduction `Global′ News Agencies - Oliver Boyd-Barrett The Struggle for Control of Domestic News Markets (1) - Terhi Rantanen The Struggle for Control of Domestic News Markets (2) - J[um]urgen Wilke Global Financial News - Michael Palmer, Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen Global Battlefields - Chris Paterson PART TWO: NEWS AGENCIES IN THE FURNACE OF POLITICAL TRANSITION From Dictatorship to Democracy - Ingrid Schulze-Schneider From Communism to Captialism - Terhi Rantanen From State Socialism to Deregulation - Ullamaija Kivikuru From Apartheid to Pluralism - Derek Forbes PART THREE: DEFINING NEWS: CONTESTATION AND CONSTRUCTION Introduction What Makes News - Michael Palmer Alternative News Agencies - C Anthony Giffard TV News Exchange - Stig Hjavard

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'Incisive regarding problems we all face with the increasingly quickening pace of news reporting and its dissemination'- International Affairs '[The book] should be applauded for promoting the importance of news agency studies, not only in the context of the relatively recent preoccupation with globalization, but also in the face of long-term neglect across media studies in general... an invaluable resource' - European Journal of Communication

Author Information

"Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett joined Bowling Green State University's School of Communication Studies as Director in 2005, a position he held for three years before deciding to return to faculty in the Department of Journalism. His current research interests include international and national news agencies, news media and the ""war on terror,"" and Hollywood representations of the intelligence community. He was previously Professor of Communication at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California, and has held various appointments at universities in the United Kingdom. Dr. Boyd-Barrett has published extensively on educational and management communications, international news media, and the political economy of mass communication. He is founding chair of the division for Global Communication and Social Change in the International Communication Association. Terhi Rantanen (MSc, LicSc, DocSc, Docent, Helsinki University) is Professor in Global Media and Communications. Her books include When News Was New (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) The Media and Globalization (Sage, 2005), The Global and the National. Media and Communications in Post-Communist Russia (Rowman & Littlefield: 2002), The Globalization of News (with O. Boyd-Barrett, Sage: 1998), 'Maailman ihmeellisin asia'. Johdatus viestinnan oppihistoriaan ('Of All Affairs, Communication is the Most Wonderful.' An Introduction to the History of Communication Research) in collaboration with M. Ampuja, The Finnish Open University: 1997), Foreign News in Imperial Russia: The Relationship between International and Russian News Agencies, 1856-1914 (Federation of Finnish Scientific Societies: 1990) and 'STT:n uutisia' sadan vuoden varrelta' ('News from the Finnish News Agency, STT: One Hundred Years') (Weilin & Goos: 1987)."

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