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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett joined Bowling Green State University's School of Communication Studies as Director in 2005, a position he held for three years before deciding to return to faculty in the Department of Journalism. His current research interests include international and national news agencies, news media and the “war on terror,” and Hollywood representations of the intelligence community. He was previously Professor of Communication at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California, and has held various appointments at universities in the United Kingdom.Dr. Boyd-Barrett has published extensively on educational and management communications, international news media, and the political economy of mass communication. He is founding chair of the division for Global Communication and Social Change in the International Communication Association. Terhi Rantanen (MSc, LicSc, DocSc, 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
