Lexington Books
Pages: 478
Trim: 6⅛ x 9
978-0-7391-2071-2 • Paperback • October 2010 • $59.99 • (£46.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
Bella Mody is the James de Castro Chair in Global Media Studies in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Part 1 Part One. Benefiting From Previous Researchers
Chapter 2 Chapter One. Foreign News: the Geopolitics of Representation and Explanation
Chapter 3 Chapter Two. Journalistic Influence in Moral Mobilization
Part 4 Part Two. The Study of the Uprising in Darfur Sudan: Representation and Explanation in the World's Press
Chapter 5 Chapter Three. Rebellion Within States in the Global South: Explaining the Conflict in Darfur
Chapter 6 Chapter Four. Cross-National Comparative Research on Foreign News: Design and Implementation
Part 7 Part Three. Findings: The Representation of Darfur by News Organizations from the Global South
Chapter 8 Chapter Five. Comparing China's State-Owned English-Language and Chinese-Language Newspapers
Chapter 9 Chapter Six. Comparing the South African Mail & Guardian Online with the Egyptian Al-Ahram
Part 10 Part Four. Findings: The Representation of Darfur by News Organizations from the Global North
Chapter 11 Chapter Seven. Comparing the UK's Guardian with France's Le Monde
Chapter 12 Chapter Eight. Comparing the US' New York Times with the Washington Post
Part 13 Part Five. Findings: The Representation of Darfur in Online News Intended for Extra-National Audiences
Chapter 14 Chapter Nine. Comparing the English-Language Web Sites of the UK's BBC and Qatar's Al Jazeera
Part 15 Part Six. Conclusion
Chapter 16 Chapter Ten. Foreign News: Journalism for Cross-National Public Education?
Foreign News Matters combines systematic content analyses with insightful interpretation, places this research into theoretical, historical and political contexts, and uses an elegant organizing structure that compares news coverage within and across nation-states, regions, and the globe. The result is a significant contribution to our understanding of the constructed nature of 'news,' the diverse practices of contemporary journalism, and the implications of both for cross-national understanding of the Darfur crises specifically, and foreign 'others' more generally.
— Michael X. Delli Carpini, Dean, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Foreign News Matters reveals a great deal about who decides what is news, the different ways national media define a story, and what this means for the publics that consume the news. Mody's starting point is that news about human abuse is a desirable end in itself, and an investment against future genocides. The analysis of how various media measured up to that standard in covering the crisis in Darfur is fascinating and, in some cases, alarming. The result is a must-read for anyone interested in international journalism.
— Catherine McKercher, Carleton University
Mody combines political economy, international relations, and content analysis in this unique interpretation of foreign news as geopolitically situated knowledge. Her focus on the Global South and the North and on print and online news offers new understandings of global news flows. Her analysis of the potentials and pitfalls of foreign news as international education is illuminating.
— W Lance Bennett, University of Washington