The global television news agencies and their handling of user generated content video from Syria

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Murrell
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
International News ◽  
Information Transparency ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Global Television

This article examines the role that the global television news agencies play in the handling of user generated content (UGC) video from Syria. In the almost complete absence of independent journalists, Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse are sourcing citizen videos from YouTube channels and passing it on to their clients. This article examines the verification processes that the agencies undertake to check on the veracity of this material and asks whether the agencies have abandoned independent journalism to activists. This article provides a comparative analysis of two months’ worth of UGC videos from Syria that were broadcast by the global news agencies after Russia joined the bombing campaign in Syria in late 2015. It analyses the content, verification processes and information that the agencies give their clients about this material. Through interviews with senior editors from the three organisations, questions of certainty versus probability are explored, along with ethical arguments about propaganda versus information transparency. The global news agencies are the engine drivers of international news coverage and their decisions and interpretation feed directly into the media ecology of mainstream and then alternative media.

The manufacture of an international news event: The day Kosovo was born

Journalism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Paterson ◽  
Kenneth Andresen ◽  
Abit Hoxha
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
International News ◽  
International Media ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
News Event ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

When the new country of Kosovo declared its independence in 2008 it received extensive, but fleeting, international news coverage. This study seeks to provide insight into how an international news event was orchestrated by participants and how news coverage was planned and implemented by international media. We do so by investigating factors initiating, enabling, shaping, and limiting the global news coverage of this story. Particular attention is paid to the close relationship between local ‘fixers’ and media representatives, which is instrumental in most international news coverage, but which has received little scholarly examination; and to the influential role of the UK-based international television news agencies.

scholarly journals Use of Agency materials in broadsheet dailies of Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Indra Dhoj Kshetri
Keyword(s):  
General Trend ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Content ◽  
International News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Total Coverage

The increase in broadsheet dailies in Nepal after the liberalization of media market in 1990s marked the change in the media content - a shift from earlier mission journalism to professionalism. Consequently, international news became the important feature of the dailies. Now, each Nepalese broadsheet daily has at least one page for the coverage of the international news obtained mainly through the news agencies: AP and AFP. In addition, large portion of sports, entertainment and biz stories come from these agencies. The corpus is enough to hint the importance of agency news. However, the subject matter has attracted very few researchers in Nepal. Only two studies are found on foreign news coverage in Nepali media (Adhikary, 2002, December 11; Kshetri, 2006). Acknowledging Nepali media's effort to localize and present separate but related news stories on few instances, Adhikary observes, "the general trend in presenting international news in Nepali media is just copying news stories from international agencies." The latter study, based on one week's frequency and breadth of international news in Nepali broadsheet dailies (in a particular week after US invasion in Iraq), found that the news from there made almost 70% of the total coverage of the international news. In this study, I incorporate larger corpus and analyze the finding using the concept advanced by Franklin (2005), and discuss if the result, in anyway, can be taken as a prospect for McJournalism. DOI: 10.3126/bodhi.v3i1.2811 Bodhi Vol.3(1) 2009 p.44-52

Media Priming Effect: A Preregistered Replication Experiment

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Tetsuro Kobayashi ◽  
Asako Miura ◽  
Kazunori Inamasu
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Evening News ◽  
Media Priming ◽  
Replication Experiment ◽  
The Media ◽  
Pre Treatment ◽  
Effects Of Media

AbstractIyengar et al. (1984, The Evening News and Presidential Evaluations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 46(4): 778–87) discovered the media priming effect, positing that by drawing attention to certain issues while ignoring others, television news programs help define the standards by which presidents are evaluated. We conducted a direct replication of Experiment 1 by Iyengar et al. (1984, The Evening News and Presidential Evaluations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 46(4): 778–87) with some changes. Specifically, we (a) collected data from Japanese undergraduates; (b) reduced the number of conditions to two; (c) used news coverage of the issue of relocating US bases in Okinawa as the treatment; (d) measured issue-specific evaluations of the Japanese Prime Minister in the pre-treatment questionnaire; and (e) performed statistical analyses that are more appropriate for testing heterogeneity in the treatment effect. We did not find statistically significant evidence of media priming. Overall, the results suggest that the effects of media priming may be quite sensitive either to the media environment or to differences in populations in which the effect has been examined.

scholarly journals Information Quality in Latin American Digital Native Media: Analysis Based on Structured Dimensions and Indicators

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Rodríguez-Hidalgo ◽  
Diana Rivera-Rogel ◽  
Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
International News ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Data Journalism ◽  
Statistical Indicators

The current communicative ecosystem has profoundly transformed journalistic work and the media, generating with great eagerness the emergence of digital native media that do not follow the logic of their conventional peers. Although the advent of these media is not entirely negative, as they create multiple voices that contribute to pluralism, their quality has undoubtedly been questioned on several academic fronts. This work analyzes the most important Latin American digital native media by number of accesses (traffic), using a taxonomy of evaluation of dimensions of the informative quality, in which aspects such as informative sources, uses of international news agencies, correction of contents and factuality levels, ideological plurality in their opinion contents, among others, are taken into consideration. Of the emerging results, the ‘use of statistical indicators’ was the least rated (32.5%), mainly due to a lack of data journalism in the media studied. It is also worth noting that the indicator ‘comments and monitoring’ obtained the second-lowest rating, indicating an absence of conversation between the media and its audience through the comments section of each content.

African Television News Flow into Australia: A Case Study

1982 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek J Overton
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Television News ◽  
International News ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Tv News ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Positive Nature

A six months monitoring, May October 1979, of Tasmanian television news provides insights into the nature of African news. Shortcomings emerge such as the fact that while some regions received extensive attention the coup d'etat in Ghana went totally unreported. The television international news agencies, Visnews and UPITN are looked at. Though at the time of the monitoring Visnews was a monopoly in international TV news supply, UPITN has now broken into the Australian market. UPITN is of considerable interest to Africanists. Until 1979 it had covert ties with the South African Department of Information. Since television news reports on Africa dwellon crises, and provide little information of a positive nature, they project a decidedly negative image of Africa to the Australian public.

The Cold War battle over global news in East Africa: decolonization, the free flow of information, and the media business, 1960–1980

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International News ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Political Views ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Nation ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Free Flow Of Information

AbstractThis article examines the news business in Africa during decolonization. While UNESCO stimulated enormous discussion about creating independent ‘third world’ alternatives for news exchange, African countries such as Kenya and Tanzania sought to secure informational sovereignty by placing international news agencies within their control. Reuters and other international news agencies, in turn, adapted to decolonization by reinventing themselves as companies working to assist new nation-states. In the subsequent contest over news distribution, the Cold War, and inter-agency competition, Africa became a battleground for disputes between Reuters’ capitalist vision of news as a commercial product and UNESCO's political conception of news. Ironically, decolonization enabled Reuters to gain greater control over information supply across Africa, because African leaders viewed the capitalist model of news as better suited to their diplomatic goals and political views.

scholarly journals Menezes, Lená Medeiros de. Tramas do Mal - Imprensa e Discursos de Combate - A Revolução (1917-1921). Editora Ayran, 2019, 306p. ISBN 978-65-80699-00-1

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. e59953
Author(s):  
Mônica Leite Lessa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The United States ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
International News ◽  
Ideological Struggle ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Media

Lená Medeiros de Menezes analisa os primórdios da guerra cultural midiática movida pelos Estados Unidos contra a Revolução Russa apontando os principais discursos circulantes, o papel das agências de notícias internacionais e o alcance desse combate político-ideológico na imprensa carioca.Palavras-chave: Revolução Russa, Imprensa, Guerra Cultural, Anticomunismo.ABSTRACTLená Medeiros de Menezes analyzes the beginnings of the media cultural war agede by the United States against the Russian Revolution, pointing out the main circulating speeches, the role of international news agencies and the scoope of this political-ideological struggle in the Rio de Janeiro press.Keywords: Russian Revolution, Medias, Cultural War, Anti-communism. Recebido em: 16 abr. 2021 | Aceito em: 21 mai. 2021.

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