Global Battlefields

Paterson, Chris

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“…News agencies have been guiding TV stations around the world by selecting what should be highlighted in the news, setting the agenda as much as CNN International and the BBC have been increasing a homogenization of news structures and content (THUSSU, 2006). Indeed, the distinctions between wholesale and retail navigate through turbulent seas and tend to disappear because of new multilateral alliances between firms (BAKER, 2009;PATERSON, and also one of the agencies rivals and competitors.…”

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Invisible giants in broadcast journalism: news agencies and the global news ecosystem

Esperidião

2011

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Key actors of the global informational web, the international television news agencies are not often covered in the communications field in Brazil. This paper aims to understand the dynamics established between these transnational companies and their subscribers (world television stations). It attempts to clarify how these western-led news agency companies operate within the flow of communication. It intends to identify production processes (assessment, collection, treatment and radial distribution) for the Associated Press Television News (APTN) and Reuters Television News (Reuters TV).

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Section: The Duopoly At Riskmentioning

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Invisible giants in broadcast journalism: news agencies and the global news ecosystem

Esperidião

2011

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“…He stresses that there is an ‘Anglo-Franco-American dominance of an international or systemic network of global, regional and national news agencies’ (Boyd-Barrett, 2014: 3). Many other scholars including Daya Thussu (2006, 2009), Thierry Rantanen 1 (2005, 2006, 2011; Boyd-Barrett and Rantanen, 1998; Rantanen and Boyd-Barrett, 2008), Kevin Williams (2011) and Chris Paterson 1 (1998, 2004, 2010, 2011) have also contributed to these debates, with the latter stressing that this global dominance affects diversity of coverage. The agencies themselves are quick to underline their dominance.…”

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The global television news agencies and their handling of user generated content video from Syria

Murrell

2017

Media, War & Conflict

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This article examines the role that the global television news agencies play in the handling of user generated content (UGC) video from Syria. In the almost complete absence of independent journalists, Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse are sourcing citizen videos from YouTube channels and passing it on to their clients. This article examines the verification processes that the agencies undertake to check on the veracity of this material and asks whether the agencies have abandoned independent journalism to activists. This article provides a comparative analysis of two months’ worth of UGC videos from Syria that were broadcast by the global news agencies after Russia joined the bombing campaign in Syria in late 2015. It analyses the content, verification processes and information that the agencies give their clients about this material. Through interviews with senior editors from the three organisations, questions of certainty versus probability are explored, along with ethical arguments about propaganda versus information transparency. The global news agencies are the engine drivers of international news coverage and their decisions and interpretation feed directly into the media ecology of mainstream and then alternative media.

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“…Such cost containment measures tend to reinforce a pattern whereby news about developing nations comes from a small number of news agencies, and countries without a news agency presence are even less likely to receive attention (Wu, 2003). The lack of diversity in news producers on the ground means that coverage of developing nations is prone to homogenisation (Paterson, 1998). Smoothing out political, socio-economic and cultural differences may facilitate a discursive construction of developing nations as 'undifferentiated other' which are positioned for domestic audiences in oppositional terms as 'a place over "there" and not "here", while its peoples ("they") are not "us"' (Fair, 1993: 10).…”

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‘I’d be proud to spend the sacred foreign aid budget on our poor pensioners’: Representations of macro aid resourcing in the Irish, UK and US print-media during the economic crisis, 2008–2011

Cawley

2015

International Communication Gazette

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The news-media has been identified as an influence on donor nations' overseas aid allocations, acting as a site where decisions are justified to 'domestic constituencies' and through which resistance is mobilised (Van Belle, 2003). Mediated pressures on aid allocations amplified between 2008 and 2011 in three donor countries experiencing domestic economic difficulties: Ireland, the UK and the US. This study suggests that each country's print-media positioned the macro resourcing of aid primarily as an inward concern, neglected recipient country needs, and made weak connections to international policy frameworks to benchmark, contextualise and rationalise aid allocations. The research suggests that the explanatory limitations of the countries' news-models in communicating the processes and rationales underpinning macro aid resourcing may be a factor in sustaining a knowledge and legitimacy deficit among domestic publics for international aid agreements.

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Global Battlefields

Cited by 25 publications

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Invisible giants in broadcast journalism: news agencies and the global news ecosystem

Invisible giants in broadcast journalism: news agencies and the global news ecosystem

The global television news agencies and their handling of user generated content video from Syria

‘I’d be proud to spend the sacred foreign aid budget on our poor pensioners’: Representations of macro aid resourcing in the Irish, UK and US print-media during the economic crisis, 2008–2011

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