Stand point: The structure and marketing of global television news

Homogenous Agendas, Disparate Frames: CNN and CNN International Coverage Online

“…Additionally, Volkmer (1999, p. 4) argued that the global political communication of CNNI results in the formation of a global public sphere in which CNNI has been shown to have a profound impact on local newsgathering and production (.oote, 1995;Reese, in press). Considering the dramatic influence of traditional American news values and the socialization process that begets them (Gans, 2003;Plasser, 2005;Tuchman, 1978), the emergence of global television was largely concurrent with the increased reach of CNN networks.…”

The Marketing Values in News Production

“…Many leading world news organizations have targeted different audiences and designed specific content that meets their outside audiences' needs (Foote, 1995;Hart, 2008, p. 2). For example, CNN, based in the U.S., has news websites in nine different languages; the BBC, based in London, has news websites with 27 different languages; Voice of America broadcasts in "40-50 languages" (Mody, 2012, p. 103), and Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, has three news websites, one in English (AJE), the second one is in Arabic (AJA), and the third one in Turkish (CNN news website, 2012; BBC Arabic website, 2012; Al Jazeera English website, the traditional model is replaced by the market model, "content" is the main tool to achieve the primary function of the news organizations: profits (Bennett, 2004;Lacy & Sohn, 2011).…”

Discursive texts, reflexive audiences: Global trends in television news texts and audience reception

“…While researchers have paid increasing attention to the study of global news in recent years (Adams 1982;Bantz & Cohen, 1985;Flourney, 1992;Foote, 1995;Cohen, Levy, Roeh & Gurevitch, 1996;Paterson, 1994;Westerstahl & Johansson, 1994), relatively little attention has been paid to two aspects of this process. First, studies of television news have focused on issues of news flows or news agendas 1 but have not explored the "meanings" television news reproduces on a global level.…”