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Fully revised and updated, the eighth edition of The World News Prism analyzes the changing role of transnational news media in the 21st-century globalized world and its impact on rapidly changing news events.

 

  • Includes a new chapter dedicated to evolving traditional and new social media in Middle East
  • Expands the discussion of news systems in developing nations, comparing media growth in India and Africa
  • Explores the impact of digital media on traditional societies
  • Features important updates on the decline of print media in the West and the challenges this poses to global reporting
  • Surveys the latest developments in new media and forecasts future developments
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William A. Hachten is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison where he taught for 30 years. His publications include: The Troubles of Journalism, Third Edition (2005), The Growth of Media in the Third World (1993), and The Press and Apartheid (with C.A. Giffard, 1984).

James F. Scotton is Associate Professor of Journalism at Marquette University, Milwaukee. He has taught in Lebanon, China, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, and has worked as a reporter, editorial writer, and editor with the Associated Press and newspapers in several states and in China.

Together James Scotton and William Hachten are the authors of New Media for a New China (2010, Wiley-Blackwell).

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Preface to the Eighth Edition vii

Introduction 1

1 News Communication for a Global System 11

2 Changing Ideologies of Press Control 24

3 Global News Under Stress 45

4 Digital Media: Global, Interactive, and Free 58

5 The Whole World is Watching: Impact of Great News Events 77

6 Globalization of Media and Language 93

7 China: New Media In An Old Political World 111

8 The Middle East: Media Storms in the Desert 135

9 India and Africa: Contrasts in Development 158

10 Foreign News in Flux 170

11 War Reporting: Fire and Misfire 185

12 Public Diplomacy and Propaganda 206

13 Forecast: Changeable with Cloudy Periods 224

Selected Bibliography 241

Index 245

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“ This book is a superb work clearly expressed by the two authors who arranged a journey in words and illustrations to satisfy, as well as to inspire, anyone in the field of Global Communication.”
- Hussein Amin, The American University in Cairo

“Comprehensive, timely insights from two leading scholars about the rapid changes in media and their influence on perceptions, politics and cultures around the world. Chapter on developments in the Middle East is exceptional in capturing current realities through on-the-ground research. This book will be useful to all students and scholars interested in understanding media’s role in the world.”
- Sandra Whitehead, Hariri Canadian University, Lebanon

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