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Third World News in American Media: Experience and Prospects

New York: Columbia University, Center for Advanced Study of Communication and Public Affairs, Graduate School of Journalism (1983), 63 pp.

Series: Journalism Monograph, 4

Reviewed in: Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 48:2 (1984), pp. 550

"Report of a conference sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Nineteen short essays by academics and journalists, all of whom have interest and/or experience in news coverage about the Third World, discuss what America is doing in reporting it and how, perhaps, it can be done better." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 399)
I. The Information Gap Controversy
II. Will Americans Accept More Third World Information?
III. Current Patterns of Third World Coverage
IV. Education and Training of Journalists
V. New Approaches to Presenting Third World News