Global News: Reporting Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism (17) (2015)

Global NewsReporting Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism\nAuthor(s): Simon Cottle, Alexa Robertson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc\nISBN-13: 9781433124259, 978-1433124259\nSynopsis\nGlobal News explores how media representation is conceived and enacted in a world of diversity and transborder flows. Among the new media crowding the global mediascape are influential television outlets that promise viewers alternative vantage points to those of established Western broadcasters. The different worlds depicted by Al Jazeera English and Russia Today are compared with those of CNN International and BBC World. At a time when media organizations are slashing their budgets for international reporting, these channels represent a spectrum of financing solutions and relations to political power, being variously privately-, publicly-, or state-owned, backed by corporations, democratic states, authoritarian regimes, and ruling dyna.