What Gets into International News

This study utilizes the Event-Domain Cognitive Model (ECM) within cognitive linguistics to analyze narrative construction in international news media coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Through qualitative analysis of 1673 news articles from five diverse media outlets, the research outlines a multilevel cognitive rhetoric framework to explore the integration of cultural, historical, and emotional factors in media discourse. At the macro level, cultural and historical contexts influence the selection of event subdomains. At the meso level, cognitive reference points shape portrayals of international diplomacy. At the micro level, rhetorical strategies, especially metaphorical language, reveal media knowledge structures and emotional responses. The study highlights the media's dual role in reinforcing shared humanistic values and exposing geopolitical rivalries. Findings indicate the Olympics as a global stage for uniting cultures through common values and manifesting political and ideological differences, with varying narratives reflecting each outlet's cultural and political context. The study underscores the importance of cross-cultural media literacy to develop a critically aware public and contributes to international media studies, cognitive linguistics, and communication by providing a comprehensive model for analyzing media narratives and encouraging further research into global media events.

Section A. The Determinants of International News Flow and Coverage Introduction International news coverage and Americans' image of the world By: Guy J. Golan, Wayne Wanta and Thomas Johnson Chapter 1 Changing Global Media Landscape, Unchanging Theories? International Communication Research and Paradigm Testing Tsan-Kuo Chang Chapter 2 International Communication and Living System Theory: Using LST model to determine IC focus and research frame By: Shelton A. Gunaratne Chapter 3 International News Determinants in U.S. News Media in the Post-Cold War Era By: K.K. Chang and Tien-Tsung Lee Chapter 4 The Impact of Global News Coverage on International Aid By Yon Soo Lim and George A. Barnett Chapter 5 Coverage of International Elections in the U.S.: A Path Analysis Model of International News Flow By: Wayne Wanta and Guy J. Golan Chapter 6 The Determinants of International news coverage: A contextual approach. By Guy J. Golan a a a a a a Section B. The Language of International News a a Chapter 7 How Could So Much Produce so Little?a Foreign Affairs Reporting in the Wake of 9/11 By: Shahira Fahmy Chapter 8 Patterns and News Quality International Stories Reported in American Media By: Esther Thorson and Renee Kratzer Chapter 9 The Influence of Contextual Factors on the Selection of News Frames: A Cross-National Approach to the News Coverage of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) By: Kuang-Kuo Chang,,Charles T. Salmon., Byoungkwan Lee, Jounghwa Choi, Geraldine Alumit Zeldes. Chapter 10 More than a Difference of Language: A Comparative Study of Coverage of the War in Iraq By: Salma I. Ghanem Chapter 11 Africa's Political Economy of Growth and Good Governance By: Yusuf Kalyango Chapter 12 See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Judge as Evil?: Examining Whether Al-Jazeera English-language Web Site Users Transfer Credibility to its Satellite Network By Thomas J. Johnson and Shahira Fahmy Chapter 13 Exploring the determinants of international news coverage in Australia's online media By: Wang Xiaopeng Chapter 14 Blogs as stealth dissent: Eighteen Touch Dog Newspaper and the tactics, ambiguity and limits of Internet resistance in China By: Wei Zha & David D. Perlmutter a a Section C. Strategic Global Communication Chapter 15 Optimizing Integration-Responsiveness (I-R) in Multinational Corporations' (MNC) Public Relations By: Joon-Soo Lim, Chapter 16 Coordination and Contorl of Global Public Relations to Manage Cross-National Conflict Shifts: A Multidisciplinary Theoretical Perspective for Research and Practice Juan-Carlos Molleda & Alexander Laskin Chapter 17 Public Nudity on Cell Phones: Managing Conflict in Crisis Situations By: Sooyoung Cho and Glen T. Cameron Chapter 18 Communicating With Global Publics: Building a theoretical framework for international public relations Paul S. Lieber & Colin Higgins Chapter 19 Authenticity in a Glocal Communication Campaign: Branding the New Juan Valdez Juan-Carlos Molleda & Marilyn Roberts Chapter 20 The Influence of Mobile Phone Advertising on Dependency: A Cross-cultural Study of Mobile Phone Use between American and Chinese Youth: By: Ran Wei Chapter 21 Fractured Images: Disability Advertising Effects on Filipino Audiences By: Zeny Sarabia-Panol Chapter 22 Concentration of ownership in European broadcasting By: Marius Dragomir

This study aims to explain the impact of the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 on China's image in the international TV media. It applies agenda-setting theory to analyse foreign TV coverage of the Olympics in nine countries. Using Rivenburgh's national image richness construct, it attempts to make sense of the coverage before and after Beijing 2008, particularly its impact on the image of the host country. The study concludes that the breadth and attribution of China's image remained relatively stable, that these factors did not improve China's national image directly but that indirectly they raised awareness of China in the international media and framed the host country's image more clearly.

This study identifies the prevalence of culturally oriented writing techniques found in international news coverage of major American newspapers, through a concept explication and content analysis. These techniques, which I call “culture peg” and “culture link,” are content and thematic choices in international coverage that journalists make to enhance the material's appeal to their home audience. They are, in essence, cultural meaning-making processes that render foreign stories relevant to the home audience which might not otherwise be interested in international news. A content analysis revealed that these cultural strategies, deployed in both text and photographs, were employed in 72 percent of international news articles in the New York Times. Excessive use of such methods might skew the understanding of foreign cultures/societies for the readership. Theoretical and methodological implications of the study are discussed.

This article focuses on international news channels in the Global South and the perceptions by audiences in Latin America. Designed with the intention of re-shaping global narratives, international broadcasting is considered instrumental to public diplomacy and improving the image of particular countries. While many studies focus on global media policies of specific countries or the messages broadcast by international media outlets, less attention has been paid to the impact on audiences. Based on a series of focus groups conducted in Mexico and Argentina, this article discusses how Latin American audiences perceive public diplomacy efforts as channelled by international news media and their effect on country image perception, by focusing on China’s CCTV-E, Russia’s RT and Iran’s HispanTV. The findings show that preconceived images contribute to undermine the acceptance of international broadcasters. In addition, participants were optimistic about RT’s prospects of success in Latin America, hesitant about HispanTV and pessimistic about China Central Television.

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Given their deeply deviant nature, suicide terror attacks are highly newsworthy events and in theory, should attract high levels of media coverage. However, this is not the case and some suicide bombings tend to be covered more extensively than others. Through a detailed case study of Boko Haram, this research delineates the conditions under which suicide attacks are more likely to be covered across national, regional and international media outlets. The analysis relied on a dataset of 473 suicide attacks carried out by Boko Haram since 2011. Drawing on a news media distortion analysis, this study finds multiple attributes of suicide terrorism can entice heightened levels of reporting. Suicide attacks entailing higher fatalities, female perpetrators and civilian targets all lead to greater media attention while ambiguity in terms of perpetrator gender identity significantly diminishes coverage. Moreover, all of these factors are robust across national, regional and international media outlets, though the effect of gender is strongest for international media sources. Suicide attacks on Nigerian soil are generally more likely to be covered compared to attacks elsewhere in West Africa where Boko Haram is also active and this effect is especially strong for international media coverage.

The aim of the study was to demonstrate in empirical terms how cultural forces shape media coverage of global events. To buttress this fact, the spotlight was on international media coverage of the war in Iraq. The Iraq War was a defining media event. To underpin cultural influences on the war coverage, the paper reviewed five studies (Ravi, 2005; Dimitrova & Connolly-Ahern, 2007; Kolmer & Semetko, 2009; Barker, 2012, Gou et al., 2015) on the coverage of the war in different countries. Results revealed that the cultural context within which each news source was situated shaped the news representation of the war. The cultural factors that influenced the coverage were beyond the control of journalists and their media organizations, suggesting that culture is an important variable that should be considered when studying news production and coverage. The findings reinforce the widely held view that news production is shaped by competing influences, including cultural values.

A specialist in international relations examines the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the context of Russia's security interests and status in the international system. Sources from the international news media's coverage of HIV/AIDS in Russia and the social science literature on the epidemic in Russia are used not only to outline the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Russia in terms of trends in the last decade and those factors promoting the spread of the virus but also to focus on the social, economic, and military consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Russia. These consequences are analyzed in terms of how they might affect Russia's international position in the coming decades.

This critical analysis of discourse based on a corpus carefully studies language forms and discourse uses of hidden doers in news reports about a diplomatic event between China and the US. This study focuses on two main grammar structures: passive voice and using nouns to express actions. It analyzes how news discourses purposely hide or play down people who should take responsibility in describing diplomatic events. The research uses a self-made similar parallel corpus, which includes 18 typical news reports from China Daily and 18 from The New York Times respectively. Real research results show that structures that remove doers are widely used in news texts from both news agencies. However, The New York Times uses these language ways to hide doers much more frequently. This study not only proves the practical uses and analysis value of corpus linguistics methods in finding hidden rules of discourse in news language. It also shows the importance of checking small grammar choices when we learn how international news media build stories about sensitive diplomatic arguments and international conflicts. So it provides a view from language to help people understand media prejudice and hidden ideas in international news reporting.

Issue/problem COVID-19 global pandemic has had significant health, social and financial impacts on global communities. Many of the national mitigation strategies to curb the virus spread have been targeting human behaviours. Insights from behavioural sciences are crucial for effective community engagement and positive behaviour change on a population-level. Description of the study The iCARE Study (which is co-funded by CIHR and the Quebec government) is a multi-wave, international observational study of public awareness, attitudes, concerns and behavioural responses to public health policies implemented to reduce the spread of COVID-19 (www.icarestudy.com). Survey data is being continuously collected in 6 week rounds (since March 2020) using representative sampling (in Canada, Italy, Israel, France, Ireland, Australia, Colombia etc.) and convenience sampling methodology (globally). The survey was constructed around the: (1) The COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation-Behaviour) model; and the (2) The Health Beliefs Model, which provide a framework for understanding factors that predict behaviour change on a population level. Results The iCARE study leverages an existing online assessment platform, and has received over 90,000 survey responses to date. This research initiative provides real-time evidence to support COVID-19 policy strategy and communication around the world, through a global multi-stakeholder engagement that gathers expertise from almost 200 collaborators in 40 countries. Of note, the study has received a range of local, national and international media coverage and directly inputted into several government policies. Lessons iCARE study is an example of a successful intersectorial, collaborative research and policy initiative that leverages multiple stakeholders to bring behavioural perspective at the forefront of the development and delivery of public health policies globally.

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ABSTRACTIn recent years, academics, politicians, and international news media have speculated about the influence Russia is capable of wielding, particularly among Russian speaking populations in the near abroad. This paper aims to reassess the unity or division of a common Russian language information space through an analysis of the top daily headlines presented in Yandex. Based on previous historical overviews of Russian political discourses on Europe and analysis of more recent discourses in Russian television, frames for analysis are proposed and compared with actual headlines collected in real from Yandex news concerning Estonia, Latvia, and Russia.

PurposeTracing audience preferences via audience analytics software has become a vital strategy for many news organizations to ensure their competitiveness in media markets. Extant research also confirms the growing presence of these tools in digital news work in recent years across many local and international news media. However, little is understood about the analytics-driven tensions emerging among journalists and media managers. This paper aims to address this gap by drawing on the labor process theory, which critically analyzes labor and workplace transformations under capitalism.Design/methodology/approachThe present study employs an interview-based qualitative methodology to deeply understand the factors at the base of the emerging tensions between news workers and managers brought about by audience metrics tools.FindingsResults show how some perceptions, activities and contextual triggers related to analytics could make relationships between workers and managers problematic. The pressures felt by some journalists stemmed from the way their media managers introduced, interpreted, communicated and applied analytics in the workplace, which were not tied to the quality and learning goals related to journalists’ aspirations. As our evidence suggests, the analytics-induced tensions among news workers were rather an outcome of managerial deficits than of systematic plans to exploit journalists.Originality/valueBy identifying the nature of fundamental analytics-driven tensions in newsrooms, this paper contributes to our understanding of how media managers can embrace more effective approaches toward audience analytics, workforce and organizational performance.