ARTICLE: Foreign reporting more stable than thought

The working conditions of foreign correspondents is not changing quite as much as is thought, write Michael Brüggemann, of University of Zurich, Guido Keel, of Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Thomas Hanitzsch, of LMU Munich, Gerit Götzenbrucker, of University of Vienna, and Laura Schacht, of University of Amsterdam. The authors surveyed 211 foreign correspondents based … Continued

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Published: 13 Jan 2016

ARTICLE: Why stereotypes of China persist

The perpetuation of stereotypes of China and the Chinese in Western media is the result of many reasons, writes Jeanne Boden, of KU Leuven. The author sketches out the history of mutual misrepresentation between China and the West, and presents six levels of distortions. The author recognizes the following sources of stereotyping: news selection, news … Continued

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Published: 18 Dec 2015

ARTICLE: Views of, and from, China

The journal Journalism has published a batch of online first articles on China. The articles are related to both the ways China is depicted by Western media and the way Chinese media operates in the west. William Fingleton, who is part of the European Union’s delegation to China, writes about the relationship between Western media … Continued

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Published: 11 Dec 2015

ARTICLE: Africa through British and Chinese news

British and Chinese state broadcasters (BBC and CCTV, respectively) depict Africa differently, writes Vivien Marsh of University of Westminster. The author compared the newscasts of BBC’s Focus on Africa and CCTV’s Africa Live, both news services founded in 2012. Marsh captured three constructed weeks’ worth of newscasts from 2014, and conducted content analysis on the … Continued

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Published: 13 Nov 2015

ARTICLE: Hong Kong protest coverage in UK press

The so-called ‘Umbrella movement’ protests in Hong Kong were covered by UK newspapers in an unsurprising manner, writes Colin Sparks, of Hong Kong Baptist University. Sparks reviewed 129 articles published in ten UK newspapers from 2013 to 2015. The results conform to existing theories on foreign reporting, Sparks found. The author, however, emphasizes that the … Continued

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Published: 26 Oct 2015
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ARTICLE: Portraying the enemy in the Iran crisis

How are agency and different sides of a conflict portrayed, when comparing commercial news and nations’ political soft power media? The question is posed by Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman in a recent article. The paper studies coverage from the New York Times, Guardian, Fars News Agency, Tehran Times, and Xinhua News Agency comparing their views on … Continued

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Published: 16 Sep 2015

ARTICLE: News media inviting people to care

For most people living in western countries, disasters are distant suffering as they mainly affect cultural or ethnic others. Thus news media have an important emotional role in covering of international disasters. Newly published article by Stijn Joye looks at how news media can attribute a local sense of relevance to global suffering by focusing on the … Continued

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Published: 3 Sep 2015

ARTICLE: Different countries, same news reports?

Are foreign news reported in the way that reflects the interests of the home nation? Not really, claims a recently published study in Journalism Studies by James Curran of Goldsmiths University of London, Frank Esser of University of Zürich, Daniel C. Hallin of University of California San Diego, Kaori Hayashi of University of Tokyo & Chin-Chuan Lee of … Continued

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Published: 7 Aug 2015

ARTICLE: Foreign correspondents in Israel-Palestine conflict

Journalistic world in Jerusalem is divided over the Palestinism/Israelism -conflict, states Jérôme Bourdon of Tel Aviv University in his paper published in the journal Journalism. The paper, titled Strange strangers: The Jerusalem correspondents in the network of nations is based on an ethnographic investigation of foreign press correspondents working in Israel and Palestine. Bourdon argues that journalists voice their suspicions and … Continued

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Published: 27 Apr 2015

ARTICLE: Global journalism, PR views, and old debates

The journal Journalism Studies has published a small batch of online-first articles. We took a look at the three articles and summarized them below.   Sarah Van Leuven, of Ghent University, and Peter Berglez, of Örebro University, compared The Times, Le Monde and De Standaard in terms of “global journalism”. According to the authors’ quantitative … Continued

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Published: 11 Mar 2015