Events around the world are broadcast by giant media players such as CNN, BBC and NHK amongst others. This book explores how powerful political and economic age

Using the enormous number of available examples and a range of theoretical perspectives, the author demonstrates the ways in which the news media are able to ma

Describes in detail the most recent rapid growth and cross border activities and linkages of an industry of large global media conglomerates.

Ever since Newton Minow taught us sophisticates to bemoan the descent of television into a vast wasteland, the dyspeptic chorus of jeremiahs who insist that tel

News "fixers" are locally-based media employees who serve as translators, coordinators, and guides to foreign journalists in unfamiliar terrain. Operating in th