"[This book] provides an overview of the key issues in global journalism today and traces how media systems have evolved over time in different world regions. Taking into account local context as well as technological change across media industries, the book offers an up-to-date, thorough overview o
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f media developments in all world regions embedded in their unique political, cultural and economic context. Covering theoretical foundations of global journalism, from the classic Four Theories of the Press to more nuanced media models, this text proposes a framework for studying world media systems. Contributed chapters cover a wide range of topics, including media freedom, global news cultures, professional ethics and responsibilities, and education of global journalists, as well as the role of technology and issues such as fake news, soft power and public diplomacy, foreign news reporting and international news flow." (Publisher description)
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"[This book] has been thoroughly updated with new content, trends, and conclusions, all based on the latest data. The book examines broadcasting, mass media, and news services ranging from MSNBC, MTV, and CNN to television sitcoms and Hollywood export markets. It investigates the roles of the major
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players, such as News Corp, Sony, the BBC, Disney, Bertelsmann, Viacom, and Time Warner, and probes the role of advertising and the Internet and their ability to transcend national boundaries and beliefs. New chapters look at the growing importance and significance of other major regions such as the media in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. The book outlines the major institutions, individuals, corporations, technologies, and issues that are altering the international information, telecommunication, and broadcasting order; focuses on a broad range of issues, including social media and new services like Netflix, as well as Arab and Asian media; includes major updates on discussion of the Internet to incorporate global events over the last few years (such as Russian use thereof, Facebook, Google); looks at how streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, and more have emerged as dominant players in world entertainment; offers an updated instructor’s website with an instructor’s manual, test banks, and student activities." (Publisher description)
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"Aziza Bangwene [écrit] sur différents projets développés par l'Institut Panos Paris dans la perspective de la consolidation de la paix dans la région: elle présente en particulier le projet OGL Ondes des Grands Lacs, mis en oeuvre entre 2009 et 2013, et dont l'objectif principal était d'amen
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er les journalistes originaires des trois pays à abandonner leurs préjugés et leur perspective tronquée sur les réalités des pays voisins, et à s'ouvrir à d'autres points de vue sur la crise régionale. Elle souligne les acquis de ce programme, mais relève aussi un certain nombre de questions qui subsistent au terme de sa mise en oeuvre." (Introduction, page 10)
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"The internet has offered national news agencies the opportunity to extend the reach of their services to non-media consumers. This chapeter analyzes the case of BERNAMA, highlighting the tensions between journalism and marketing in the process of blurring the traditional definitions of news agency
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with their online services." (Page 141)
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"Almost entirely rewritten and updated, Global Journalism addresses the most pertinent issues and problems in today's global journalism and media environments, whilst providing an extensive overview of journalism throughout the world. This new edition recognizes the vast and rapid changes taking pla
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ce in international journalism. Its three interlinking parts first offer a thorough discussion of global media theoretical approaches; then survey the main issues confronting journalists, media organizations, audiences, and others in the media world, and thirdly focus on the media of the world's eight major regions." (Publisher description)
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"Eine Nachricht ist auch eine Ware – und eine schnell verderbliche dazu. Wichtigster Produzent dieser Ware sind Nachrichtenagenturen, die den Globus mit tausenden von Korrespondenten, freien Mitarbeitern und Informanten überzogen haben. Keine Tageszeitung kommt ohne Agenturen aus, keine überregi
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onale Nachrichtensendung kann ohne deren Meldungen und Berichte hergestellt werden. Die großen Nachrichtenagenturen sind Weltmeister der Kommunikation – doch über sie selbst liest man wenig. Erst recht ist wenig bekannt über ihre Geschäftsmodelle, die sich voneinander stark unterscheiden. Am weitesten verbreitet sind Agenturen, die dem Staat gehören oder von ihm bezuschusst werden. Privatwirtschaftlich organisierte Nachrichtenagenturen sind weltweit die Ausnahme. Nachrichtenagenturen sind in den letzten Jahren finanziell stark unter Druck geraten. Verantwortlich dafür sind die Entwertung der Ware Nachricht durch ihre freie Verfügbarkeit im Internet, die Heterogenität der Kundenwünsche sowie die teilweise dramatischen Anzeigen- und Auflagenverlusten der Zeitungen. Welchen Wert die Ware Nachricht künftig noch haben wird, wie wahr Nachrichten aus einer Billigproduktion sein können und ob es den Europäern gelingt, den aus den USA beherrschten Nachrichtenmärkten etwas entgegenzuSetzen, das zeichnet Michael Segbers in seinem Sachbuch kompetent und erfahren nach." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"It is a simple fact that it is hard to find reliable information on the media in South Eastern Europe. The 'South East Europe Media Handbook' bridges this gap in a unique way and offers basic information about the situation of the media in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus,
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Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro/Kosovo, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine. It hereby supports the better understanding of the particular situation of the media in the countries of South Eastern Europe. On the other hand, it gives a very good overview and provides a useful database of all important media in South Eastern Europe. Last but not least it is an outstanding source of information regarding press freedom violations in the past year. Once again I want to emphasize that the media are the agents of democracy. Hence it is very important to encourage the governments in the region to establish safe working conditions for journalists and this is one of the basic objectives of this handbook." (Erhard Busek, Special Coordinator Stability Pact for Eastern Europe, page XI).
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"At a stay in Afghanistan in May 2006 my father-in-law Mohammed Faried Parvanta in a laborious effort acquired Persian lists of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations from the Ministry of Information and Youth. These lists give an excellent quantitative overview on the current lands
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cape of mass media in the country and I soon came to the conclusion that they are a source in itself, documenting a status which will have already changed considerably at the moment this article appears. My wish to publish them was limited by the question of how to make them accessible in a useful way. While speaking about it to my friend Eckart Schiewek who is since nine years a member of the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan (UNSMA) he mentioned another list that had been produced in February 2001 by UNSMA under his direction and thus reflects the media situation in the time of the Taliban (a time where very little is known about the publishing landscape). Eckart’s generosity to freely use the 2001 list made it clear that both lists should be published thus giving a comparison which to my knowledge hasn’t been tried yet. I decided to create a certain frame for the data in providing a short historical overview and adding some comments at certain points in the lists although I am in no way qualified for a critical historical study of the situation of Afghan mass media or periodicals. Instead this small article intends to make these two valuable lists available to the interested specialists. Despite my few comments both of the lists are basically reproduced as they were. I quickly gave up initial thoughts to translate the Persian lists because of the sheer size of these lists." (Preliminary remarks)
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"This book presents a network analysis of media ownership dependencies in ten Central and Eastern European countries. In addition to a detailed description of the media landscapes in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania and Slovenia it furthermore gives an overview of news agencies operating in thes
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e countries. The publication is the final report of the research project "Media markets in Central and Eastern Europe - Chances of and threats against media pluralism in Europe" carried out at Danube University Krems (Austria)." (Publisher description)
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"This study examines the perceptions of journalists working for two international television news agencies about this safety policy called the ‘Joint code of practice for journalists working in conflict zones’. This policy was adopted in November 2000 by five major television companies including
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the television news agencies Reuters Television and Associated Press Television News. This study finds that the policy had significant flaws in how it was formulated and how it is communicated, implemented and reviewed. Recognising the existence of unequal relations of power and conflicting interests at play in any policy process, this study stresses that in the case of the journalist safety policy, all stakeholders should have participated in the relevant policy stages. This argument arises from researching the policy document as well as from the point of view of managers, and particularly journalists who work on dangerous assignments, either full-time or on a freelance basis for either of the two television news agencies. It finds that while journalists are not generally aware of the policy, they do practice many of its elements as well as a range of their own custom-made strategies to protect themselves. The result is to make the policy less effective than it could be." (Abstract)
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"Journalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The authors take varying approaches to questions of democracy, whilst also conside
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ring journalism in print, radio and new media, in relation to such questions as the role of social, political and economic liberalization in bringing about a blooming of the media, the relationship between the media and the development of democracy and civil society, and how journalism copes under authoritarian rule." (Publisher description)
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