Global news : reporting conflicts and cosmopolitanism /
Robertson, Alexa,
Global news : reporting conflicts and cosmopolitanism / Alexa Robertson. - xvii, 159 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. - Global crises and the media ; 17 . - Global crises and the media ; v. 17. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The global village and the ivory tower -- Colliding worlds -- A world in crisis: atlas reports -- Brave new world -- Another world: Europe as other -- A world of difference.
Global News explores how media representation is conceived and enacted in a world of diversity and transborder flows. Among the 'new media' crowding the global mediascape are influential television outlets that promise viewers alternative vantage points to those of established Western broadcasters. The different worlds depicted by Al Jazeera English and Russia Today are compared with those of CNN International and BBC World. At a time when media organizations are slashing their budgets for international reporting, these channels represent a spectrum of financing solutions and relations to political power, being variously privately-, publicly-, or state-owned, backed by corporations, democratic states, authoritarian regimes, and ruling dynasties. Despite their differences, however, they have much in common. Their journalists espouse the universal values of professionalism and objectivity and speak to their global audiences in English. This book explores the different theoretical worlds of global media studies, takes a rare look at content, has a comparative perspective, and moves beyond the conflict frame that has dominated much of the literature in the field.
9781433124259 1433124254 9781433124242 1433124246
2014043813
Violence--Press coverage.
Social conflict--Press coverage
War--Press coverage.
Journalism--Objectivity
Cosmopolitanism.
Mass media and globalization.
PN4784.V56 / R63 2015
303.6
Global news : reporting conflicts and cosmopolitanism / Alexa Robertson. - xvii, 159 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. - Global crises and the media ; 17 . - Global crises and the media ; v. 17. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The global village and the ivory tower -- Colliding worlds -- A world in crisis: atlas reports -- Brave new world -- Another world: Europe as other -- A world of difference.
Global News explores how media representation is conceived and enacted in a world of diversity and transborder flows. Among the 'new media' crowding the global mediascape are influential television outlets that promise viewers alternative vantage points to those of established Western broadcasters. The different worlds depicted by Al Jazeera English and Russia Today are compared with those of CNN International and BBC World. At a time when media organizations are slashing their budgets for international reporting, these channels represent a spectrum of financing solutions and relations to political power, being variously privately-, publicly-, or state-owned, backed by corporations, democratic states, authoritarian regimes, and ruling dynasties. Despite their differences, however, they have much in common. Their journalists espouse the universal values of professionalism and objectivity and speak to their global audiences in English. This book explores the different theoretical worlds of global media studies, takes a rare look at content, has a comparative perspective, and moves beyond the conflict frame that has dominated much of the literature in the field.
9781433124259 1433124254 9781433124242 1433124246
2014043813
Violence--Press coverage.
Social conflict--Press coverage
War--Press coverage.
Journalism--Objectivity
Cosmopolitanism.
Mass media and globalization.
PN4784.V56 / R63 2015
303.6