This book overviews and reconsiders media organizations – the news agencies – which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political economic and cultural studies perspectives, the book: reviews agency provision of general news, video news and financial news; analyzes agency-state relations through periods of dramatic social upheaval; and critically examines the impact of deregulation and globalization on the news agency business.
Contributors consider how leading players like Reuters and Associated Press help to define the nature of both the Global and the Local as well as focusing on the network of relations between international and national agencies. The book also takes into account the attempts by some national news agencies to establish radically different news agendas. Demonstrating how the news agencies have contributed both to the process of globalization and, simultaneously, to the process of national construction, this book provides an important critical survey of the contemporary international news business.
Table of Content
The Globalization of News – Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen
PART ONE: NEWS AGENCIES AS AGENTS OF GLOBALIZATION
Introduction
`Global′ News Agencies – Oliver Boyd-Barrett
The Struggle for Control of Domestic News Markets (1) – Terhi Rantanen
The Struggle for Control of Domestic News Markets (2) – J[um]urgen Wilke
Global Financial News – Michael Palmer, Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen
Global Battlefields – Chris Paterson
PART TWO: NEWS AGENCIES IN THE FURNACE OF POLITICAL TRANSITION
From Dictatorship to Democracy – Ingrid Schulze-Schneider
From Communism to Captialism – Terhi Rantanen
From State Socialism to Deregulation – Ullamaija Kivikuru
From Apartheid to Pluralism – Derek Forbes
PART THREE: DEFINING NEWS: CONTESTATION AND CONSTRUCTION
Introduction
What Makes News – Michael Palmer
Alternative News Agencies – C Anthony Giffard
TV News Exchange – Stig Hjavard
About the author
Terhi Rantanen (MSc, Lic Sc, Doc Sc, Docent, Helsinki University) is Professor in Global Media and Communications. Her books include When News Was New (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) The Media and Globalization (Sage, 2005), The Global and the National. Media and Communications in Post-Communist Russia (Rowman & Littlefield: 2002), The Globalization of News (with O. Boyd-Barrett, Sage: 1998), ′Maailman ihmeellisin asia′. Johdatus viestinnän oppihistoriaan (′Of All Affairs, Communication is the Most Wonderful.′ An Introduction to the History of Communication Research) in collaboration with M. Ampuja, The Finnish Open University: 1997), Foreign News in Imperial Russia: The Relationship between International and Russian News Agencies, 1856-1914 (Federation of Finnish Scientific Societies: 1990) and ′STT:n uutisia′ sadan vuoden varrelta′ (′News from the Finnish News Agency, STT: One Hundred Years′) (Weilin & Göös: 1987).
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