[ecrea] New book on international comparative journalism: Geopolitics of Representation in Foreign News

> Geopolitics of  Representation in Foreign News (Lexington Books 2010)
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> http://tinyurl.com/2dhqw9o
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> For most people who do not travel, representations of the foreign are all
> there is. The Darfur that the Washington Post constructed for its
> metropolitan audience was different from the Darfur that People's Daily
> constructed for domestic Chinese citizens.
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> Can any news, and foreign news in particular be "objective," in keeping
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> Walter Lippmann's ideal for the journalism profession?  Under what
> conditions can news organizations be watchdogs, alerting their readers to
> crimes against humanity? The Geopolitics of Representation in Foreign News:
> Explaining Darfur (Lexington Books, 2010), produced by students and
> professors at the University of Colorado Boulder, compares the output of
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> news organizations from seven countries in the global South and North over
> the first 26 months of the Darfur conflict.
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> Compared on a 13-item timeliness and comprehensiveness index, only three
> news organizations, the BBC's website, the Washington Post and South
> Africa's Mail and Guardian Online, received a passing grade of 60 percent
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> Regression statistics show how each news organization made strategic news
> construction decisions on Darfur. News was refracted through four lenses:
> national location (high-low current national interest, historical
> geopolitical solidarity with the global North or South) and organizational
> characteristics (state or private ownership, domestic or foreign intended
> audience). The influence of the intended audience in differentiating
> coverage has particular relevance in the digital age when multiple editions
> are easily devised by the same news organization; for example, the New York
> Times's global.nyt.com and its domestic counterpart nytimes.com.
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> Bella Mody
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> School of Journalism and Mass Communication
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> Armory, 1511 University Avenue
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> UCB 478
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> Boulder, CO 80309-0478
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>  <mailto:(mody /at/ colorado.edu)> (mody /at/ colorado.edu)
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> New publications
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>  <http://hir.harvard.edu/news-of-sudan-s-growing-pains>
> http://hir.harvard.edu/news-of-sudan-s-growing-pains
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> Harvard International Review Dec 14 2010
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> Geopolitics of  Representation in Foreign News (Lexington Books 2010)
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>  <http://tinyurl.com/2dhqw9o> http://tinyurl.com/2dhqw9o

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