Global news production / Lisbeth Clausen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clausen, Lisbeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign news.

Journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen ; Herndon, VA : Copenhagen Business School, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book explores how powerful political and economic agendas in the national media environment influence the production processes. It shows how the outcome is planned and negotiated between correspondents on location, editors and popular anchors that express the local cultural and political heritage."

Contents:

Global News Production

Chapter One

'Global' news

Introduction

Global processes of homogenisation

Processes of differentiation

Universal and particular elements in international news communication

News 'Domestication'

International News Flow

International news agencies

'Global' images, transnational formats and local meaning

News in society

Audiences and 'global consciousness'

Political actors in news

News personalities

International news producers as mediators of complex information

Framing international news information

News broadcasting trends in Denmark and Japan

News in Japan

Conclusion

Chapter overview

Part I

Chapter Two

Trends in Western and Japanese News Production

'Classic' and 'second wave' studies in news production

Bureaucratic routines or cultural practices?

Professional objectivity or new(s) epistemologies?

Hierarchy of access or cultural symbolism?

The forgotten audience or the imagined audience?

Public knowledge or popular culture?

Homogenisation or differentiation?

Selection or construction?

The Strategic Dilemmas in Public Service and Commercial Broadcasting

Chapter Three

Making sense of international news

Priming and framing in news communication

An interdisciplinary approach

Related research

Framing in a cognitive perspective

Cultural imprints on information processing

Textual framing

Social framing

Frames and multiple realities

Frames in interaction

Emerging strategies

Priming and timing

Frames in emotions and senses

A critical note on schema theory

Contextual framing

Text in context

The 'domestication' model

Part II

Chapter Four

Global news output in Denmark and Japan

Framing international events

The UN Conference on Women in Beijing.

Frames in news communication

Formats

A Sense of Immediacy

Visual images

Visual cutting and coherence

Graphics and subtitles

The framing of UN discourses in Denmark and Japan

'We' and 'other(s)'

Myths and cultural stereotypes

Language import through news

Frames for interaction

Broadcast professionals

Chapter five

The National Media in a global perspective

Political and legal influences on strategic management

The political character of the broadcast media

The political power of television news personalities

The national broadcasters

NHK

TV Asahi

TBS

FUJI TV

NTV

From public service to market strategies

'News' and 'views' in perspective

Global influence - extra-media factors

The Japanese language as a 'domestication' tool

International focus - return to Asia

International news frames since the end of the Cold War

Technological advance and journalistic challenges

Reporter career patterns

Headhunting

Chapter six

Public service and commercial organisational factors

Frame 'ba'

Method

I. NHK

International news room practices

Individual influence

NHK style visuals

Traditional, conventional and reliable

The incorporated audience 'mechanism'

A summary of NHK's organisational characteristics

II. TV Asahi

Decision-making

News room practices

Easy to understand, people oriented, anti-establishment

Live, spontaneous broadcast by individuals

Sponsor considerations

International news values

Feature stories

Communication between Tokyo and overseas staff

Familiarising information through the use of cultural clichés

Skilful 'domesticators'

A summary of TV Asahi's organisational characteristics

Chapter Seven.

Professional Strategies

Planning the UN Conference on Women

A political perspective in mind

'Global' media discourse

Where and what is news?

Considerations about audience impact

The complexity of political events

Expert knowledge and personal strategies

Strategies of objectivity and facticity

A summary of NHK professional strategies

Planning

Strategy on location

'Anti-feminist' strategies

'Comfort women'

'Womanism'

Elite actors and professional news criteria

Framing the atmosphere on location (ba)

A summary of TV Asahi professional strategies

Chapter Eight

The culturally integrative character of national newsproduction

The communication of complex international information

Framing and priming

International news frames

Linguistic embeddedness

Visual embeddedness

Appendix 1: Local appropriation of 3 'global' news

Appendix 2: Global news visuals

Appendix 3: Information-processing model for schema theory.

Appendix 4: Fieldwork description

The set up

Newsroom Access

Appendix 5: Interview guide

Appendix 6: Interview list.

Appendix 7: Global news visuals

Appendix 8: Competing new channels

References.

Notes:

Based on author's doctoral dissertation.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-307).

ISBN:

87-630-9957-8

OCLC:

826660042