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| Focus: Global
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| Articles |
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Reflections on the Politics of the Global
"Rolling News" Television Genre
Mehdi Semati
Global News and the Vanishing American
Foreign Correspondent
Scotti Williston
The European Broadcasting Union: Covering
the Globe
Naila Hamdy
American-Style Journalism and Arab World
Television: An Exploratory Study of News Selection at Six Arab World Satellite
Television Channels
Muhammed Ayish
The Impact of Arab TV News: Two Perspectives:
Al-Jazeera: Here We Stand, We Can Do No Otherwise
Yosri Fouda
Looks are Deceiving: Arab Talk Shows and TV Journalism
TBS Senior Editor S. Abdallah Schleifer
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| Interviews
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Cover story: Rashid Murooshid,
Managing Director and Stephen Marney, Director of News and Program Development
at the EDTV Business Channel discuss coverage of regional, and global, financial
markets
Khalid Kazziha,
APTN senior producer for East/Central and West Africa and Nadia Bilbasey, Africa
correspondent for MBC, talked to TBS about how satellite phones can mean better
coverage of breaking news, and about cooperation in the field between news stations
and news agencies
Ibrahim Nawar, Managing Director of Video
Cairo Sat, describes VCS's preparations to launch a private satellite news
channel, Cairo Sat News
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| Symposium
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| "Corporatization of the
Media," a discussion held at News World 2000 in Barcelona, asks if the
fact of media becoming big business means that the boardroom now controls the
newsroom. Chaired by the BBC's Nick Gowing, and featuring Robert McChesney, Chris
Cramer, Ian Hargreaves, Danny Schechter, and Neil Docherty |
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Peer-Reviewed
Articles:
Reconsidering Cultural Imperialism Theory
Livingston White
The World in the Screen: The Impact of
Character Representativeness, Society Variability, and Presentation on Audiences'
Conceptualization of Cross-Cultural Media Images
Alice Hall
Traditional Family Relationships
and Television Viewing in Greece
Thimios Zaharopoulos
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Articles
continued:
Where the Global Meets the Local: Media
Studies and the Myth of Cultural Homogenization
Larry Strelitz
Something to Be Done: Transnational
Media Monitoring
Kaarle Nordenstreng
New Book Strategizes South Asian Broadcasting
Policies
Janet Fine
Arab Women and Satellite Broadcasting
TBS Senior Editor Hussein Amin
ART Relaunches as 'Total Entertainment Solution'
TBS Managing Editor Sarah Sullivan
Showtime Relaunches with Four New Pay-TV
Packages
TBS Managing Editor Sarah Sullivan
Update from Dubai: Reuters, MBC move
to Dubai Media City, plus His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's
speech at the official Media City opening
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Reports:
ICC: Three Days, One Theme...Many, Many
Topics
James Napoli
News World 2000 Raises Critical, and
Timely, News Concerns
TBS Senior Editor S. Abdallah Schleifer
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Reviews:
edited by Amos Owen Thomas
"Global media
economics: commercialization, concentration and integration of world media markets"
(1998). Edited by Alan B. Albarran and Sylvia M Chan-Olmsted
Reviewed by James Piecowye
"Public
Service Broadcasting in Asia: Surviving in the New Information Age" (1999)
Asian Media Information and Communication Centre
Reviewed by Pieter Wessels
"Information Highways
in ASEAN" (1999) by Anura Goonasekera and Ang Peng Hwa
Reviewed by Dr. Ali Parandeh
"The World News
Prism: Changing Media for International Communication" (5th Edition,
1999) by William A. Hachten
Reviewed by Dr. Philip Robertson
"Copycat TV: Globalisation, Program
Formats and Cultural Identity" (1998) by Albert Moran
Reviewed by Amos Owen Thomas
"Deciding what we watch: Taste,
decency and media ethics in the UK and the USA" (1999) by Colin Shaw
Reviewed by Dr. Latiffah Pawanteh
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