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ARTICLE: With what words to describe the Arab-Israeli conflict?

A recent article by Giora Goodman, of Kinneret College, and Sandrine Boudana, of Tel Aviv University, recounts the struggle of the Reuters news agency in trying to hit a neutral tone in reporting the Arab-Israeli conflict. The agency’s efforts are best likened to Don Quixote‘s fight against windmills, the authors suggest. The authors researched Reuters’ … Continued

Tags: crisis journalism, foreign correspondence, media history, representation
Published: 28 Nov 2016

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ARTICLE: Four roles of war reporters on Twitter

The new environment of war correspondents is characterised by instant messaging, borderless interaction and information warfare. Markus Ojala and Mervi Pantti of the University of Helsinki and Jarkko Kangas of the University of Tampere studied how correspondents enact their professional roles in various ways via Twitter. The authors studied the tweets of three Finnish war … Continued

Tags: crisis journalism, foreign correspondence, propaganda, Ukraine
Published: 10 Oct 2016

ARTICLE: Turning suffering into practical action

In 2013 a garment factory The Rana Plaza collapsed in Bangladesh. 1134 people were killed, and around 2500 were injured making it the deadliest garment factory accident in history, writes Kristin Skare Orgeret, of Oslo and Akershus University College. The article offers a critical analysis of the media coverage of the Rana Plaza disaster in four newspapers … Continued

Tags: crisis journalism, foreign correspondence, local journalism
Published: 6 Oct 2016

ARTICLE: State news management in the 17th century

Dutch news were important to both have and control to the English state in the late 17th century, writes Jason Peacey, of University College London. Peacey’s recent article looks at ways in which the state sought to control the work of Abraham Casteleyn, an early Dutch journalist. Casteleyn published the Oprechte Haerlemse Courant and supplied … Continued

Tags: censorship, foreign correspondence, media history
Published: 19 Sep 2016

ARTICLE: US correspondents’ changing views of China

American journalists writing from China changed their views of the country several times, write Yunya Song, of Baptist University of Hong Kong, and Chin-Chuan Lee, of Hong Kong City University. They analysed 16 books written by front-row American foreign correspondents stationed in China in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The early 1970’s were marked with idealism, … Continued

Tags: China, foreign correspondence, representation
Published: 1 Sep 2016

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ARTICLE: News startups and freelancers providing global journalism

As many legacy news organizations have closed down their foreign reporting bureaus, freelancer correspondents are taking their places in a new kind of global journalism. The article by Lea Hellmueller of the University of Houston, Sadia Ehsan Cheema of Texas Tech University and Xu Zhang of the University of Tennessee studies recent global news startups … Continued

Tags: foreign correspondence, media systems
Published: 22 Aug 2016

ARTICLE: Boko Haram viewed through national lenses

Both the French France 24 and the German Deutsche Welle depicted the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram in accordance with the countries’ foreign policies, write Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi, of Monash University, and Marie Gillespie, of Open University, UK. The authors conducted a critical discourse analysis on the Boko Haram related output of the two channels from … Continued

Tags: crisis journalism, foreign correspondence
Published: 5 Aug 2016

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ARTICLE: Two-way news flow between China and United States

There was an increasing flow of information from the USA to China about Beijing’s air pollution issues, states a new study. The article by Ran Duan and Bruno Takahashi of Michican State University compares coverage of Beijing’s air pollution on US and Chinese newspapers. The research finds out how the local environmental crisis was covered … Continued

Tags: foreign correspondence, media systems, sources
Published: 8 Jul 2016

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ARTICLE: News fixers’ perspectives on conflict reporting

News fixers often face some trouble with foreign correspondents causing issues with reporting the events, giving credit and safety. Lindsay Palmer of University of Wisconsin–Madison interviewed 21 news fixers living and working in Middle Eastern conflict zones. ‘Fixers’ are local media workers who work with foreign news correspondents in setting up interviews, translating text, navigating … Continued

Tags: foreign correspondence, journalistic identity, journalistic profession
Published: 7 Jul 2016

ARTICLE: Latvia seeks Western media attention

The pressures of international politics leave Latvians struggling to counteract Russian media’s influence, writes Janis Chakars, of Gwynedd Mercy University. Chakars reviews Latvia’s relationship with foreign media both today and at the turning point of late 1980’s and early 1990’s. At both times Latvians were, and are, eager to attract Western media attention to their … Continued

Tags: foreign correspondence, Latvia, political journalism
Published: 30 May 2016