News communication for a global system -- Changing ideologies of press control -- Global news under stress -- Digital media: Global, interactive, and free -- The whole world is watching: Impact of great news events -- Globalization of media and language -- China: New media in an old political world -- The Middle East: Media storms in the desert -- India and Africa: Contrasts in development -- Foreign news in flux -- War reporting: Fire and misfire -- Public diplomacy and propaganda -- Forecast: Changeable with cloudy periods
Summary
Fully revised and updated, the eighth edition of The World News Prism analyzes the changing role of transnational news media in the 21st-century globalized world and its impact on rapidly changing news events. Includes a new chapter dedicated to evolving traditional and new social media in Middle EastExpands the discussion of news systems in developing nations, comparing media growth in India and Africa Explores the impact of digital media on traditional societiesFeatures important updates on the decline of print media in the West and the challenges this poses to global reporting Surveys the
