The Globalization of News

Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Terhi Rantanen (eds.)

London: Sage (1998), 256 pp.

ISBN 0-7619-5387-6 (pbk); 0-7619-5386-8 (hbk)

"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." (Publisher description)

The globalization of news / Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen
PART I: NEWS AGENCIES AS AGENTS OF GLOBALIZATION
'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) / Jürgen Wilke
Global financial news / Michael Palmer, Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen
Global battlefields / Chris Paterson
PART II: NEWS AGENCIES IN THE FURNACE OF POLITICAL TRANSITION
From dictatorship to democracy / Ingrid Schulze-Schneider
From communism to capitalism / Terhi Rantanen
From state socialism to deregulation / Ullamaija Kivikuru
From apartheid to pluralism / Derek Forbes
PART III: DEFINING NEWS CONTESTATION AND CONSTRUCTION
What makes news / Michael Palmer
Alternative news agencies / C. Anthony Giffard
TV news exchange / Stig Hjarvard

Topics:

Globalisation of Media News Agencies

Countries:

Australia Eastern & Central Europe Germany New Zealand Russia South Africa Spain Tanzania