Reporting Global While Being Local : Local Producers of News for Distant Audi...

by Mitra, Saumava (EDT); Paterson, Chris (EDT)

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Reporting Global While Being Local : Local Producers of News for Distant Audiences, Paperback by Mitra, Saumava (EDT); Paterson, Chris (EDT), ISBN 0367758768, ISBN-13 9780367758769, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US International news has long been studied and understood as produced by outsiders – foreign correspondents working in exotic, international locales. This book challenges this established view by putting the spotlight on the insiders working in their own countries producing news for international audiences. Western male foreign correspondents who report from areas affected by crises and conflicts for an 'audience back home’ have long stood in as visible metaphors of international news production. But the understanding of who produces international news is starting to shift as scholars come to take into account the often-invisible role played by locally based, non-Western news-workers who have always been part and parcel of international news production. The roles and responsibilities of these professional, specialised locals within the global flow of news have only increased as falling news industry revenues have meant reductions in non-local staff in foreign news bureaus. Available research shows that the involvement of local journalists and fixers, as well as NGOs, as sources of news and information in international news production is marked by economic, socio-cultural and practice-related tensions. To shed light on these growing yet relatively less investiga

• ISBN: 9780367758769
• Condition: Fine

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