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

Soderlund, Walter C.; Lee, Martha F.; Gecelovsky, Paul

doi:10.22230/cjc.2002v27n1a1273

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“…In a Spring 2000 survey of Canadian daily newspaper editors, Soderlund et al (2002) found that some editors believe the availability of international news on the Internet may compel newspapers to increase their concentration on local news "where information is not available on the Internet" and where local newspapers have a clear competitive advantage (p. 83).…”

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Increasing circulation? a comparative news‐flow study of the MontrealGazette's hard‐copy and on‐line editions

Gasher

Gabriele

2004

Journalism Studies

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International news-flow research has repeatedly identified significant imbalances in the global exchange of news among regions of the world. With the emergence of thousands of news sites on the World Wide Web, and the corresponding ability of news audiences to access these sites, the Internet offers the technological capacity to globalize media content. This paper seeks to test that possibility by exploring the way one Canadian daily newspaper, the Montreal Gazette, occupies the geography of the Internet with its on-line news operation. The paper reports on an exploratory comparative news-flow study of the Gazette's hard-copy and on-line editions to determine whether on-line publishing has prompted the Gazette to alter the boundaries of its news coverage. While the paper concludes that, indeed, the Gazette's website consistently carried far more international news items than its hard-copy edition, it also notes that this distinction is largely explained by the website's very heavy reliance on wire-service copy and its emphasis on sports news.

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Increasing circulation? a comparative news‐flow study of the MontrealGazette's hard‐copy and on‐line editions

Gasher

Gabriele

2004

Journalism Studies

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“…The findings from these studies of Canadian and American international news reporting are supported by the conclusions from the surveys of Canadian editors ' opinions in 1988, 1995, and 2000. In every survey, however, reported percentages of international newshole are significantly higher in Canada than those reported in the United States (Soderlund, Lee, and Gecelovsky 2002;Soderlund and Lee 1999;Soderlund, Krause, and Price 1991).…”

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The Reporting of International News in Canada: Continuity and Change, 1988–2006

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“…This research arose from a perceived lessening of commitment to locality on the part of some daily newspapers in the 1990s and 2000s, when staff cuts made it difficult to cover once‐standard local beats such as municipalities and school boards (Canada , ). While a significant body of research has addressed declining foreign news reporting by Canadian news organizations (Canada ; Kariel and Rosenvall ; Soderlund and Lee ; Soderlund et al ; Canada ), the fate of local news has not received similar attention…”

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A more national representation of place in Canadian daily newspapers

Buchanan

2014

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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In their design and content, North American daily newspapers construct a complex representation of the locality they serve and its place in the world. That construct involves the quality and quantity of local news, relative to news in other geographic categories, and how stories from each category are displayed in the newspaper's pages. This article describes a content analysis that quantified and compared the representations of locality and place in the print versions of two Canadian metropolitan daily newspapers between 1894 and 2005. The results show a marked increase in both the number of national stories and the priority given to national news in the final decades of the 20th century, mirrored by a sharp decline in the number of local stories and the priority accorded to them in the Ottawa Citizen. The same trends were seen to a lesser extent in the Toronto Star, a longtime champion of the local. The article concludes with a discussion of possible reasons for this phenomenon and its relationship to political and technological developments in the final decades of the 20th century and the start of the 21st. Une représentation de plus en plus nationale du lieu dans les quotidiens canadiensLes quotidiens nord-américains construisent, tant par leur conception que dans leur contenu, une représenta-tion complexe de la localité qu'ils desservent et de la place que celle-ci occupe dans le monde. Celle-ci se traduit par la qualité et la quantité de nouvelles locales en proportion des nouvelles liées aux autres catégories géographiques, et par la façon dont les reportages sont classés selon les catégories et présentés dans les pages du quotidien. Cet article fait état d'une analyse de contenu visant à quantifier et comparer les représentations de la localité et du lieu dans les versions papiers de deux quotidiens de régions métropolitaines du Canada publiés entre 1894 et 2005. Les résultats révèlent que la forte croissance du nombre de reportages d'envergure nationale ainsi que la place prioritaire donnée aux nouvelles nationales au cours des dernières décennies du 20 e siècle, vont de pair avec la baisse nette du nombre de reportages locaux et de la priorité que le quotidien Ottawa Citizen leur avait accordée. Si on repère cette tendance également dans le quotidien Toronto Star, elle est moins prononcée compte tenu que ce quotidien a longtemps défendu les couleurs locales. L'article se termine par une discussion sur les raisons qui pourraient expliquer ce phénomène et son rapport avec les évolutions politiques et technologiques au cours des dernières décennies du 20 e siècle et du début du 21 e siècle.

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

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

Increasing circulation? a comparative news‐flow study of the MontrealGazette's hard‐copy and on‐line editions

Increasing circulation? a comparative news‐flow study of the MontrealGazette's hard‐copy and on‐line editions

The Reporting of International News in Canada: Continuity and Change, 1988–2006

A more national representation of place in Canadian daily newspapers

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