Internal Controls and Foreign News Coverage

Nnaemeka, Tony; Richstad, Jim

doi:10.1177/009365028100800104

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“…The fact that large nations with relatively high GDPs such as Egypt, South Africa and Nigeria dominated coverage is not coincidental but rather is a product of those nations' location within the hierarchy of African nations. Several previous studies identified GDP (Chang et al, 1987;Wu, 2003) and population (Dupree, 1971;Kim and Barnett, 1996;Nnaemeka and Richstad, 1981) as key predictors of international news coverage. Those studies, however, did not provide the theoretical explanation to why those two news factors were consistent predictors of coverage.…”

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“…Hicks and Gordon (1974) found that ethnocentrism (operationalized by US involvement in the event) was influential on coverage. In a content analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC television networks between 1972and 1981, Larson (1982 found that nearly 50 percent of foreign news involved the US and at least one other nation. In a content analysis of news stories printed between 1980 and 1990, Riffe (1996) found that 39 percent of The New York Times international news had some linkage to US interests.…”

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“…Population: Population has been identified by previous studies as a key predictor of international coverage (Dupree, 1971;Kim and Barnett, 1996;Nnaemeka and Richstad, 1981). All population figures used in the current study were based on CIA World Factbook (2004) data, all numbers are in hundreds of thousands.…”

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Where in the World Is Africa?

Golan

2008

International Communication Gazette

104

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The current study investigates coverage of African nations by four US television newscasts. It focuses on the news period between 2002 and 2004 and reveals that despite presence of wide-scale famine, civil conflict, disputed elections and an AIDS epidemic, the African continent received limited coverage. Based on research on the determinants of international news coverage, the study investigates how deviance, relevance, cultural affinity and location in the world system may be used to predict coverage. Results identify trade with the US and gross domestic product as the two key predictors of coverage of African nations. In the discussion, the study's results are incorporated into the larger theoretical application of world system theory into research on the determinants of international news coverage.

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Where in the World Is Africa?

Golan

2008

International Communication Gazette

104

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“…First, we measured prominence in economic terms by using a foreign nation’s GDP per capita as an indicator of that country’s resources and capabilities—several studies have shown that GDP is among the most important predictors of foreign nation visibility in the news (Ahern, 1984; Gunaratne, 2001). As a second measure of a country’s prominence, we also considered the size of a nation’s population since previous scholarship has found this variable to be a good predictor of visibility as well (Kim & Barnett, 1996; Nnaemeka & Richstad, 1981). Phrased in the form of hypotheses, we expect the following:…”

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Foreign Nation Visibility in U.S. News Coverage

Jones

Aelst

Vliegenthart

2011

Communication Research

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Previous scholarship has neglected to fully explore the dynamic nature of international news flow over time. This study uses content analysis to track foreign nation visibility on a yearly basis in two major U.S. news outlets: the New York Times and NBC Nightly News . Time-series analysis is used to evaluate the influence of five contextual factors on foreign nation visibility in the news: (a) geographic proximity, (b) bilateral trade flow, (c) U.S. troop deployment, (d) GDP per capita, and (e) population. The research findings build on earlier news flow studies by adding a longitudinal dimension that has been absent from previous news "flow" scholarship.

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“…In the early 1980s, Nnaenieka and Kichstad (18,19) Other studies, curried out in the urgent spirit of the New Znternational Znformation (Order debate, lucked the direction of these earlier studies but have been useful in some respects. Pinch (21), seeking to miriiinize the cleljate alioiit news flows, examined the news coverage given to 16 Third World countries a n d found that the Secoiid World was niore neglected by U.S. newspapers than the Third.…”

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Communication and Culture: The Value of Comparative Studies

Edelstein¹

1983

Journal of Communication

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Examination of cross-cultural studies of news coverage, zjalues and images, and journalistic standards suggests the value of searching for commonalities to extend our knowledge of human behavior.If there is ferment in mass communication research in the lYSOs, comparative analysis across cultures probably is involved more as agent than as actor. In that parlance, just as the actor controls the action and the agent is the object of it, so too will comparative analysis not create ferment but rather be its catalyst.Cross-cultural comparative methods have been used to suggest, among other things, that Western societies are sending more news to Third World nations than they are receiving from them; that Western values as reflected in film heroes, teachers, and similar figures are different from, and perhaps less to be admired, than those of other cultures; and that Third World journalists are less professional in their orientation to their tasks than are U.S. journalists.Are such data persuasive? Do they possess validity because they agree with our common sense expectations? Should they be accepted as evidence by a scholarly community?These are troubling questions. We are left in many compar a t' 1ve studies with only reports of raw data: A is greater or less than B. Yet, as scholars, we must ask, what do these data mean and what are the sources of those meanings? Are the data generalizable?

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Internal Controls and Foreign News Coverage

Cited by 9 publications

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Where in the World Is Africa?

Where in the World Is Africa?

Foreign Nation Visibility in U.S. News Coverage

Communication and Culture: The Value of Comparative Studies

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