2012
DOI: 10.1177/1748048512439822
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A changing world, unchanging perspectives

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine, through a longitudinal analysis, the priorities and beliefs that American newspaper editors hold toward foreign news reporting. Using the theory of cultural values as the framework, the study seeks to compare how American newspaper editors assessed the importance of factors in their selection of foreign news over time. The results show that the priorities of journalistic values in foreign news reporting remain fundamentally unchanged in the United States. More important… Show more

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“…Even when important things occur in a distant or non-western country, journalists lean towards focusing on the link with the national or the local, for instance by inserting eyewitness accounts of compatriots who are present at the scene. This journalistic practice of domestication appears to thrive in contemporary news reporting (Chang et al 2012;Joye 2017), but is nothing new.…”
Section: Hopeless or Rising? Africa's Image In Western News Mediamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Even when important things occur in a distant or non-western country, journalists lean towards focusing on the link with the national or the local, for instance by inserting eyewitness accounts of compatriots who are present at the scene. This journalistic practice of domestication appears to thrive in contemporary news reporting (Chang et al 2012;Joye 2017), but is nothing new.…”
Section: Hopeless or Rising? Africa's Image In Western News Mediamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The underlying premise is generally that (international) ‘news must essentially be about us’ (Sonwalkar, 2004: 208). Or in the words of Peterson (1979: 120): ‘the majority of foreign news is domestic news about foreign countries, not international news’ and this perspective appears to thrive in contemporary news reporting (Chang et al., 2012). Such statements tend to position the notion of proximity as central in the different stages of the news production process, particularly as a news selection criterion and as a determinant for politics of representation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%