Bad News or No News? Covering Africa, 1965–1982

Hachten, William A.; Beil, Brian

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“…Notes 1. For lack of coverage, see Stokke, 1971;Gerbner and Marvanyi, 1977; Charles, Shore and Todd, 1979;Larson, 1979;Pratt, 1980; Wilhoit and Weaver, 1983;Weaver, Porter and Evans, 1984; Hachten and Bell, 1985;Haile, 1987;Onwochei, 1987;Terrell, 1989; "Africa and the World," 1990; El Zein and Cooper, 1992;Hultman, 1992. For coverage emphasizing crisis events, see Paine, 1976; Charles, Shore and Tood, 1979;Pratt, 1980;Sambe, 1980;Hachten and Beil, 1985;Nwosu, 1987;Terrell, 1989; Africa and the World, 1990; "Capturing the Continent," 1990; Boonah-Koomson, 1991;Gary and Cooper, 1991;Hunter and Askin, 1991;Ungar and Gergen, 1991;Askin, 1992;Ebo, 1992;El Zein and Cooper, 1992;Fair, 1992a;Govea, 1992. For anecdotal evidence, see Lamb, 1982;Harrison and Palmer, 1986; Harriman, 1987;Harden, 1990. …”

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Images of Africa in news magazines: Is there a black perspective?

Kenney

1995

Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands)

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“…However, despite the collection of research demonstrating such omissions in reporting, the accompanying claim that coverage of developing nations is exclusively conflict-focused has enjoyed inconsistent support. A study of coverage of Ghana and Tanzania in three Western newspapers from 1965 to 1982, for example, found no evidence to support the argument that coverage is limited to crises, with only 40 percent of articles reporting crisis events (Hachten and Beil, 1985).…”

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The World at War: Three and a Half Decades of New York Times Conflict Coverage

Sobel

Kim²,

Riffe

2019

Media, War & Conflict

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This quantitative content analysis uses 36 years of New York Times international news to understand how conflict coverage is presented to audiences in terms of quantity and geographic focus, whether conflict is covered because of its linkage to US interests, and whether the Times relies on its own personnel for first-hand coverage. Additionally, a contemporary history approach gauges how representative coverage is of conflicts in varying regions. Quantitative data reveal an imbalance in coverage; stories about low-income nations focused more on conflict and were more likely to link events to US interests. However, the volume of coverage of these countries was minimal and arguably failed to report some of the most severe internal crises in those nations. According to social construction of reality theorists, this imbalance and distortion can lead to audience perception that more conflict occurs in low-income nations than in other, more developed parts of the world.

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The History of a Surviving Species

Cole¹,

Hamilton²

2008

Journalism Studies

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In 1925, University of Chicago sociologist Robert Park published a seminal essay on ''The Natural History of the Newspaper.'' That history, he wrote, ''is the history of the surviving species. It is an account of the conditions under which the existing newspaper has grown up and taken form.'' The reporting of foreign events in American news media has its own natural history. Commercialization and changing forms of ownership, the emergence of new media, developments in technology, evolving norms of professionalism, the shifting panorama of world affairs* these and other factors have forced continual changes in the collection and distribution of foreign news. In this essay, the authors consider these dynamic factors in identifying clearly defined periods in this evolution and demonstrating how this historical framework helps us understand the new and highly complex era of foreign newsgathering we are now in.

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Bad News or No News? Covering Africa, 1965–1982

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Images of Africa in news magazines: Is there a black perspective?

Images of Africa in news magazines: Is there a black perspective?

The World at War: Three and a Half Decades of New York Times Conflict Coverage

The History of a Surviving Species

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