From pigeons to news portals foreign reporting and the challenge of new technology /

Ever since the invention of the telegraph, journalists have sought to remove the barriers of time and space. Today, we readily accept that reporters can jet quickly to a distant location and broadcast instantly from a satellite-connected, video-enabled cell phone hanging from their belts. But now th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Perlmutter, David D., 1962-, Hamilton, John Maxwell.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
Series:Media & public affairs.
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Online Access:ebrary
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Table of Contents:
  • The challenge of technological change in foreign affairs reporting / David D. Perlmutter and John Maxwell Hamilton
  • Rethinking "foreign news" from a transnational perspective / Lucila Vargas and Lisa Paulin
  • The Nokia effect: the reemergence of amateur journalism and what it means for international affairs / Steven Livingston
  • Bloggers as the new "foreign" foreign correspondents: personal publishing as public affairs / Kaye Sweetser Trammell and David D. Perlmutter
  • U.s. media teach negative and flawed beliefs about Americans to youths in twelve countries: implications for future foreign affairs / Margaret H. DeFleur
  • Instant connection: foreign news comes in from the cold / John Yemma
  • Happy landings: a defense of parachute journalism / Emily Erickson and John Maxwell Hamilton
  • The real-time challenge: speed and the integrity of itnernational news coverage / Philip Seib
  • Technology and the policy maker: no place to hide (or, everyone knows everything) / Richard Moose.