Table of Contents

The Globalization of News - Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen
PART ONE: 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) - J[um]urgen Wilke
Global Financial News - Michael Palmer, Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen
Global Battlefields - Chris Paterson
PART TWO: NEWS AGENCIES IN THE FURNACE OF POLITICAL TRANSITION
From Dictatorship to Democracy - Ingrid Schulze-Schneider
From Communism to Captialism - Terhi Rantanen
From State Socialism to Deregulation - Ullamaija Kivikuru
From Apartheid to Pluralism - Derek Forbes
PART THREE: DEFINING NEWS: CONTESTATION AND CONSTRUCTION
Introduction
What Makes News - Michael Palmer
Alternative News Agencies - C Anthony Giffard
TV News Exchange - Stig Hjavard

About the Author

Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett joined Bowling Green State University's School of Communication Studies as Director in 2005, a position he held for three years before deciding to return to faculty in the Department of Journalism. His current research interests include international and national news agencies, news media and the "war on terror," and Hollywood representations of the intelligence community. He was previously Professor of Communication at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California, and has held various appointments at universities in the United Kingdom. Dr. Boyd-Barrett has published extensively on educational and management communications, international news media, and the political economy of mass communication. He is founding chair of the division for Global Communication and Social Change in the International Communication Association. Terhi Rantanen (MSc, LicSc, DocSc, Docent, Helsinki University) is Professor in Global Media and Communications. Her books include When News Was New (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) The Media and Globalization (Sage, 2005), The Global and the National. Media and Communications in Post-Communist Russia (Rowman & Littlefield: 2002), The Globalization of News (with O. Boyd-Barrett, Sage: 1998), 'Maailman ihmeellisin asia'. Johdatus viestinnan oppihistoriaan ('Of All Affairs, Communication is the Most Wonderful.' An Introduction to the History of Communication Research) in collaboration with M. Ampuja, The Finnish Open University: 1997), Foreign News in Imperial Russia: The Relationship between International and Russian News Agencies, 1856-1914 (Federation of Finnish Scientific Societies: 1990) and 'STT:n uutisia' sadan vuoden varrelta' ('News from the Finnish News Agency, STT: One Hundred Years') (Weilin & Goos: 1987).

Reviews

`Incisive regarding problems we all face with the increasingly quickening pace of news reporting and its dissemination′- International Affairs `[The book] should be applauded for promoting the importance of news agency studies, not only in the context of the relatively recent preoccupation with globalization, but also in the face of long-term neglect across media studies in general.... an invaluable resource′ - European Journal of Communication