The Globalization of News [Paperback]

Oliver Boyd-Barrett (Editor), Terhi Rantanen (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 28, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0761953876 | ISBN-13: 978-0761953876 | Edition: 1

This book overviews and reconsiders 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, the book: reviews agency provision of general news, video news and financial news; analyzes agency-state relations through periods of dramatic social upheaval; and 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

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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

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; 1 edition (October 28, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761953876
• ISBN-13: 978-0761953876
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,819,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Globalisation of News, February 13, 2005

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A. Richard "shadprof" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Globalization of News (Paperback)

Divided as most good books are between the past trends, the present and what may happen this is an interesting books.

The three parts are ¨

1) News as agents of Globalisation

2) News Agencies in the Furnace of Political Transition

3) Defining News: Contestation and construction

Each part section is divided into several chapters and because this book is written by a team of people there is an international context.