Alternative News Agencies

Giffard, C. Anthony

doi:10.4135/9781446250266.n12

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“…He further said that UPI and Reuters were in the same ratio in third and first world newspapers. Giffard (1998), enlightened that the major Western news agencies (Reuters, AP and to a certain degree Agency France Press (AFP)) dominates the international flow of news while they covering more news about politics, natural disasters, violence and conflict which is a problem for the third world countries.…”

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2018

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The aim of this research is to highlight the influence of foreign news agencies on daily Dawn and the News International. Quantities Content analysis has been done, while data collected from two newspapers of three month, 2016. The researcher collected data through purposive sampling technique and coding sheet was used as a tool. The results revealed that both newspapers relied on the foreign news agency. The content analysis explored that daily Dawn was more dependent on front page coverage whereas daily the News International was on the back page. The study also disclosed that daily the News International is giving more value to the foreign wires news than daily Dawn as it has published more news stories in double columns. The result of the research supported the hypotheses and the assumptions of the applied theories including Framing theory and Gatekeeping theory that foreign news agencies are Framing and filtering information.

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Section: Influence and Dependencymentioning

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2018

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“…According to one stream of research in this area, the coverage produced by alternative wire services such as the United Nations' Inter Press Service frequently offers more critical sources, more voices from developing countries, more environmental and human‐rights issues, and more positive framing of global development topics than mainstream outlets like the U.S.‐based Associated Press provide (e.g. Giffard ; Groshek and Han ; Ogan and Rush ; Rauch ). However, these comparisons are not uniformly favorable to alternative media.…”

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Are There Still Alternatives? Relationships Between Alternative Media and Mainstream Media in a Converged Environment

Rauch¹

2016

Sociology Compass

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Media scholars and non‐scholars alike have long sought to discern and describe the differences between alternative media and mainstream media — a task that became harder in the digital age, as online communications blurred boundaries. This essay examines how theorists and researchers have attempted to clarify the term ‘alternative media’ and to explain why this category remains relevant in a networked society. Academics largely reject the alternative–mainstream dichotomy and view these media on a continuum, featuring many hybrids and few pure instances. While differences between the two forms are less apparent in liberal democracies than in authoritarian regimes, alternative media persist in being less commercial, producing more critical content and being more committed to social change than their mainstream counterparts. In a converged context, the idea of ‘alternative media’ with a dialectical, interdependent relationship to the mainstream remains important to many producers, users and scholars.

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“…About two-thirds of IPS reports pertain to the developing world (Giffard and van Horn, 1992) and IPS has gained credibility for its coverage of Third World issues, particularly of Latin America. Still, the news agency has struggled to establish a sizeable market with limited financial resources, few correspondents, and scattered coverage of international news (Giffard, 1998). In general, the Southern world regions (with the exception of the Middle East) have remained largely invisible in international news, and news flows between developing states have been minimal (Boyd-Barrett and Thussu, 1992).…”

Section: Analyzing News Contra-flows In a Localized Satellite News Landscapementioning

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A voice for the voiceless?

Figenschou

2010

Global Media and Communication

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Al-Jazeera English is the first English-language satellite news channel broadcasting globally from the Middle East. The channel aims to redress the balance of news flows, and the present article presents a comprehensive, quantitative content analysis of the channel’s news. The article finds that the channel airs more news items from and about the global South than the global North, and that the South is covered in more in-depth news formats, with more correspondents on the ground. Furthermore, it documents that male, independent elites are the most frequent and authoritative news sources on Al-Jazeera English. The article concludes that the channel represents a potential contra-flow of English-language satellite news, through its explicit Southern agenda, but that it continues the political bias and elite orientation characteristic of mainstream international news.

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Alternative News Agencies

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