"Kevin Williams has authored an account of "foreign" correspondence
and international journalism that is the most
comprehensively-sourced, inclusive, contextualized, timely and
critical in its field. At last, we have an account that
acknowledges that the largest employers of "foreign" correspondents
for nearly two hundred years have been and continue to be the news
agencies; that the occupation is rooted in a history of
imperialism, post-colonialism and commercialization, whose vestiges
today are all too apparent; that the impacts of so-called "new
media" on the amount, range and quality of international news,
while significant, are less dramatic and less positive than
commonly supposed." - Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Bowling Green State
University, Ohio What is the future of the foreign correspondent -
is there one? Tracing the historical development of international
reporting, Kevin Williams examines the organizational structures,
occupational culture and information environment in which it is
practiced to explore the argument that foreign correspondence is
becoming extinct in the globalized world. Mapping the
institutional, political, economic, cultural, and historical
context within which news is gathered across borders, this book
reveals how foreign correspondents are adapting to new global and
commercial realities in how they gather, adapt and disseminate
news. Lucid and engaging, the book expertly probes three global
models of reporting - Anglo-American, European and the developing
world - to lay bare the forces of technology, commercial constraint
and globalization that are changing how journalism is practiced and
understood. Essential reading for students of journalism, this is a
timely and thought-provoking book for anyone who wishes to fully
grasp the core issues of journalism and reporting in a global
context.
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