International News Agencies Research Articles

Dos Semanas en la Prensa Latinoamericana: Un Análisis desde la Perspectiva de la Sociologia de la Producción de Mensajes (Newsmaking)

El estudio presenta algunas evidencias del periodismo que se realiza en Latinoamérica, a la luz de la teoria de la Sociologia de la Produccion de Mensajes. En el se analizan elementos tales como las rutinas de trabajo, el género del reportero, el uso de información de las agencias, tanto nacionales como extranjeras, boletines de prensa, entre otros.

Systemic Determinants of International News Coverage: A Comparison of 38 Countries

This study investigates the influence of systemic determinants on international news coverage in 38 countries. Systemic factors include traits of nations, magnitude of interaction and relatedness between nations, and logistics of news gathering. Multiple regression is implemented to assess 9 systemic determinants in each individual country. Findings indicate that the U.S. was the most covered country in the world. In spite of some variation, trade volume and presence of international news agencies were found to be the 2 primary predictors of the amount of news coverage. The study concludes that the prediction framework of international news coverage has probably altered in the post-Cold War epoch and, therefore, that the relevant problems need to be revisited.

Systemic determinants of international news coverage: a comparison of 38 countries

This study investigates the influence of systemic determinants on international news coverage in 38 countries. Systemic factors include traits of nations, magnitude of interaction and relatedness between nations, and logistics of news gathering. Multiple regression is implemented to assess 9 systemic determinants in each individual country. Findings indicate that the U.S. was the most covered country in the world. In spite of some variation, trade volume and presence of international news agencies were found to be the 2 primary predictors of the amount of news coverage. The study concludes that the prediction framework of international news coverage has probably altered in the post-Cold War epoch and, therefore, that the relevant problems need to be revisited.

National and International News Agencies

National news agencies tend not to excite the same scholarly or even the same popular attention as the international or `global' news agencies. Yet both international and national news agencies contribute to the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. The number of major general news international agencies has reduced in recent years, while national news agencies are faced with a broad range of difficult challenges that may threaten the future viability of at least some of them. These challenges particularly have to do with relations between agencies and media owners, relations between agencies and the state, changes in the composition of the market as a result of growing media commercialization, concentration and globalization and new sources of competition in the supply of news. The range of possible defensive strategies includes diversification, redefining the relationship between national news agencies and national identity, linking up with the new global media conglomerates, partnerships between agencies, identification of new models for relating to the state and reassessment of the respective benefits and weaknesses of the cooperative model of news agency organization.

The Beijing Conference on Women as Seen by Three International News Agencies

Of the seven major United Nations conferences on global issues in the last decade, only one took place in Asia. However, the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995 was one of the largest multinational gatherings ever held, with 17,000 participants from 189 countries. In hosting the conference, China hoped to overcome the negative publicity it had endured after Tiananmen Square and to showcase the progress made by Chinese women. This study examines coverage of the conference by three international news agencies: the Associated Press, Reuters and Inter Press Service. It seeks to determine the amount and kind of coverage given to conference themes, and to Asian actors, organizations and nations in reports from the three news agencies.

Covering the Global Village

In the eighties, the Berlin wall was shaken by faxed, telephoned and broadcast reports which overwhelmed state sanctioned news and helped the deconstructions of Stalinist confections of reality. In contemporary mainland China, the state monopoly of foreign news is being undermined by growing usage of the Internet, which can allow access to the international free market of ideas. But such ‘democratic competition also promises to challenge Western information orders; with profound implications for foreign correspondets and international news agencies which have dominated international news production and distribution since the last century. Now anyone with a computer, a modem and Internet account can read dozens of newspapers, and share their views with others around the world. On-line reporters can access distant databases to research their stories. They can ask questions and receive tips via email. As a result, international news need no longer be the preserve of the elites. But will this new technology enhance accurate globalized journalism or merely accelerate the trend towards superficial instant reports which are little more than rumour styled as news?

URTNA, AFROVISION, and satellite broadcasting: The birth of a television news exchange system in Africa

The Union of National Radio and Television Organizations of Africa (URTNA) has played a leading role in providing a radio and television program exchange system in Africa for the past three decades. With the birth of AFROVISION in 1991, URTNA expanded its operations to include television news exchange via satellite to its member organizations, marking the cooperative beginnings of African nations’ quest to break their dependency on international news agencies. This article explores the evolution of AFROVISION up to its implementation and provides an historical look at URTNA and its program exchange operations.

International dictionary of broadcasting and film

The language terms A-Z British - metric conversion table magnetic tape width standards magnetic tape speed standards phonograph speeds film length standards negative, sound, print and television recording films film width standards film projection speed table of frequencies frequency bands radio bands television channels film emulsion speed conversion table televison systems worldwide national and international news agencies.

World television news: An analytical map

This article analyzes five main groupings of world television news organizations: national broadcast networks, international TV news agencies, regional news exchanges, global satellite networks, and regional satellite vernacular networks. Key news organizations and the relations among them are analyzed to demonstrate an emerging web of global television that is both vertically and horizontally structured.

Roundtable

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsOwais Aslam AliOwais Aslam Ali is editor of the Pakistan Press International news agency and director of the Pakistan Press Foundation.Enayetullah KhanEnayetullah Khan is editor of Holiday, a newspaper in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Mass communications: a comparative introduction

Part 1 Communication and society: oral society literate society electronic society oral and literate communication - an overview electronic oral communication electronic audio-visual communication electronic textual-numeric communication other viewpoints. Part 2 Mass communication and modern society: an historical example a contemporary example telecommunications a revised definition of mass communication the mass media beyond a mass media audience. Part 3 Mass communications law and policy: the place of the media in society the legal and policy foundations of mass communication some specific comparisons the press in comparison with the eletronic media non-broadcasting telecommunications law and policy - the common carriers cultural industries. Part 4 The structure and role of ownership: historical background - function and ownership the public role in broadcasting private-sector media ownership - the private enterprise ethic trends in ownership form implications of commercial ownership private media ownership - cases 1 and 2 - the brilliant careers of Axel Springer and Leo Kirch. Part 5 The functions of journalists: a professional profile the ideals of journalism law and policy and the practice of journalism a survey of national law and policy libel and other laws of constraint academic research perspectives. Part 6 Technology and communication: technology defined communication technology and the organization of space some theoretical perspectives on technology the physical foundations of communication technology between physics and society technological difference, convergence and policy rationales for and realities of technological development a facilitative legal and policy framework technology and production technology and distribution technology and consumption. Part 7 Media and audiences: a theoretical synthesis - an interaction of meaning-generating systems eight approaches to the study of audiences building a picture of the audience. Part 8 Media content: communication as representation the implications of the indeterminacy of representation signification theoretical perspectives on the study of content mechanisms of media/culture binding media presentations and social and political agendas. Part 9 Information flow - the geopolitics of entertainment and information: a theoretical framework - metropolis and hinterland the international news agencies global news flows consuming exported cultural products - heartburn or health? the world information and communications order the new world information and communications order three points of debate European trade information and cultural products what does theory have to offer? Part 10 Mass communication and culture: media and society the mass media policy and ownership professionalism technology media and audiences media content geopolitics a closing note - communication and cultural identity.

The political legacy of Petra Kelly

Petra Kelly was one of the most remarkable members of the postwar generation, someone who determined at age thirteen that she would become either a nun in a Third World country or a new kind of politician. When she died in October, at 44, international news agencies summarized her significance as “perhaps the world's best‐known environmentalist” and “the personification of the German environmental and peace movements.” She was not only the most widely known member of the German Green Party but the person through whom a transatlantic synergy was brought full circle: German Greens had been influenced in the 1960s and 1970s by observing the ecology, peace, feminist, and social justice movements in the United States; Kelly then brought to American media and lecture halls during the 1980s charismatic testimony about the combination of those concerns in the new phenomenon called “Green politics.” She was uniquely positioned to play such a role, having spent her childhood in Bavaria and her adolescence in the United States, for her parents had divorced and her mother had married a U.S. Army colonel. While earning a degree from American University's School of International Service, Kelly worked in Robert Kennedy's campaign and Hubert Humphrey's office and was influenced by the nonviolent civil disobedience of the civil rights and antiwar movements. Returning to Europe, she worked as a policy analyst for the European Economic Community and then cofounded the West German Green Party in 1979. She was elected to the West German parliament in 1983, along with twenty‐six other Greens, and remained in office until 1990.

Understanding Cultural Problems in Transnational Information Flow

The circulation of news in Third World Asia cannot be understood or assessed wholly in terms of the international news agencies or any other single element in the process. The international news agencies are probably doing a better job quantitatively than qualitatively. The Third World countries will probably never be satisifed with the quality of their own news coverage until they have their own news agency.

Circulation of News in the Third World: A Study of Asia, by Wilbur Schramm and Erwin Atwood

To obtain some factual information on the flow of news in Asia from events to readers from international wires to newspapers and readers and the 2-way circulation between developing and industrialized countries the study was planned to include 5 components of measurement and analysis: local and national news content of 18 Asian and daily newspapers 1 English language and 1 native language daily for each of 9 countries during 1 week in December 1977; content of the international news agencies wire services delivered to Asian clients during the same week in December 1977; foreign news content of the 18 Asian dailies with particular reference to what was selected from the international wires; readership of a sample -- the number depending on what was affordable -- of the Asian dailies; and Asian news in a sample of First World dailies number again dependent upon finances. The study answers both quantitative and qualitative questions: the basic pattern of news flow; local and national news in the Third World dailies; what the international news wires carry; what the Asian dailies take from the international wires; what people read in an Asian Third World daily; the coverage of development news; the distribution of coverage; the news from China and India; coverage of 2 major events; news from Malaysia; and coverage of some national leaders. The circulation of news in Third World Asia cannot be understood or assessed totally in terms of the international news agencies or any other single element in the process. It is far too simple to approach the problem of news circulation by regarding the Asian media as the only aggrieved parties and the international agencies as the sole offenders. For one thing that excludes 1 of the most important elements in the process the readers. The international news agency wires carry a great deal more foreign news -- from the Third World as well as the industrial countries from Asia as well as countries outside Asia development news as well as other types of news -- than even the most distinguished and prosperous dailies of Asia can or do print. The daily prints more a great deal more than any of its users read. The news agencies operate under a number of restraints imposed by their clients and the clients readers and also by the nature and task of their resources. It has been observed that the international news agencies do try to serve the needs of their clients in Asia and are most likely doing a better job quantitatively than qualitatively.

Mexican Painting: Adapting To Capitalism

Mexican Painting: Adapting To Capitalism

African Television News Flow into Australia: A Case Study

A six months monitoring, May October 1979, of Tasmanian television news provides insights into the nature of African news. Shortcomings emerge such as the fact that while some regions received extensive attention the coup d'etat in Ghana went totally unreported. The television international news agencies, Visnews and UPITN are looked at. Though at the time of the monitoring Visnews was a monopoly in international TV news supply, UPITN has now broken into the Australian market. UPITN is of considerable interest to Africanists. Until 1979 it had covert ties with the South African Department of Information. Since television news reports on Africa dwellon crises, and provide little information of a positive nature, they project a decidedly negative image of Africa to the Australian public.

The Information Revolution: Issues of Transborder Data Flows

The international debate on information and communication became intense and acrimonious by the end of the 1970 s. The publication of the Macbride Commission Report in 1980 was the high water-mark in this debate.1 Throughout the 1970 s, the developing countries had been pressing for a new world order on information and communication as part of their struggle for a new international economic order. In the Third World, the public debate in general has been limited to issues of imbalances in the flow of international news dominated by the big four international news agencies (AP, Reuter, AFP and UPI), the efforts of the non-aligned countries to create a newspool, etc. However, the rapid strides in the field of microelectronics and its marriage to the developments in space technology has posed a number of intractable problems before the Third World, besides the issue of newsflow. The most important international fallout of the new developments in technology is the issue of transborder data flows (TDF).2 The international legal, political and economic implications of data flows across national frontiers are increasingly acquiring greater significance.

Reaction To International News Agencies: 1930s and 1970s Compared

Reaction To International News Agencies: 1930s and 1970s Compared

National news agencies with special reference to plurilingual countries

The national press agencies have an integrative function in modern society. In fact, for the most they were founded to defend the national interests against the external influence of the international press agencies. In plurilingual countries where great cultural diversities create problems in the selection of news, in the linguistic capacities of the news personnel and in the quality of news translation, the national news agencies serve as an important link between the various cultural communities. The authors selected five plurilingual countries : Canada, Belgium, Finland, South Africa and Switzerland. They describe how these countries' national press agencies are organized, their linguistic practices, their clients and the problems they face. Finally, the question is raised as to the impact of the technological innovations on the relationship between national and international news agencies. The more the process of news distribution is automated the less the national agencies are able to rewrite, to interpret, to set the news in their own particular national scope or context.