"A comparative study on how the media present other countries, peoples and issues to readers, listeners and viewers. Using quantitative content analysis, teams followed the news in selected countries representing various communication systems in North America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern ... and Western Europe and Latin America during one week in 1979. Two methods were employed: one measured the amount of foreign news while the second balanced measurement with a qualitative analysis of the material, fleshing out the content, drawing attention to omissions, and showing the flavor of the kinds of news coverage available within each media system. Appendixes give the participating teams; the coding of the study; a section on "Other Research and the World of News" by Robert L. Stevenson which not only lists the research from other studies but breaks the material down into tables and draws overall conclusions; and a final appendix: "The News of the World in Four Major Wire Services: A Study of Selected Services of the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, and Agence France-Press" by David Weaver, Cleveland Wilhoit, Robert Stevenson, Donald Lewis Shaw, and Richard Cole." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 413) more

"In the debate between the developing and developed world over the function and structure of the mass media, this collection consolidates and interprets primary findings of an international study funded by the U.S.I.A. that analyzes content and dissemination of foreign news by the mass media of 17 T ... hird World countries and the four major Western news agencies. Among contributors are the editors, Richard Cole, Kirsten Thompson, Gary Gaddy, J. Walker Smith, Anne Cooper, Emmanuel Paraschos, David Weaver, Cleve Wilhoit, Jere Link, Robert Haynes, Jr. and Thomas Ahern, Jr." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 418) more