The globalization of news /
edited by Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen.
- London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 1998.
- 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The globalization of news / Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen -- Part I. News agencies as agents of globalization -- Introduction -- 'Global' news agencies / Oliver Boyd-Barrett -- The struggle for control of domestic news markets (1) / Terhi Rantanen -- The struggle for control of domestic news markets (2) / Jürgen Wilke -- Global financial news / Michael Palmer, Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen -- Global battlefields / Chris Paterson -- Part II. News agencies in the furnace of political transition -- Introduction -- From dictatorship to democracy / Ingrid Schulze-Schneider --From communism to capitalism / Terhi Rantanen -- From state socialism to deregulation / Ullamaija Kivikuru -- From apartheid to pluralism / Derek Forbes -- Part III. Introduction -- What makes news / Michael Palmer -- Alternative news agencies / C. Anthony Giffard -- TV news exchange / Stig Hjarvard.