The press and Canadian foreign policy: A re‐examination ten years on

Media, Bureaucracies and Foreign Aid

“…The index is available on CD-Rom for the period under study. Second, the Globe and Mail is still considered the closest thing to a national newspaper of record that can exist in Canada (Soderlund et al, 2002).This choice is supported by the extensive longitudinal studies that have shown that, for the period examined here-1985 to 1995-the Globe and Mail is widely acknowledged to have the best international news reporting in the country (Soderlund et al, 2002;Burton et al, 1995).There exists another excellent national newspaper, the National Post, which also is respected for its international coverage, but it was founded only in 1998. Furthermore, the hypothetical causal process implied by this analysis implies that top leaders and bureaucrats take their news and cues as to the salience of issues from the newspaper, and this choice is supported by Stairs' 1976 study showing that our leaders in Ottawa do in fact read the Globe and Mail (Stairs, 1976).…”

Trends in Canadian Newspaper Coverage of International News, 1988-2000: Editors' Assessments

“…Content analyses of Canadian newspapers support these findings. Between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s, the number of stories dealing with Canadian foreign policy declined by approximately 30% (Burton, Soderlund, & Keenleyside, 1995;Keenleyside, Burton, & Soderlund, 1987).…”