NGOs as newsmakers. The changing landscape of international news

摘要

In recent decades, the fields of journalism, advocacy, politics, and technology have been transformed fundamentally, resulting in new societal contexts in which the communication of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is produced, disseminated, and received. Within these evolving contexts, Matthew Powers-one of the leading scholars in the field of NGO-journalism studies - provides an in-depth analysis of the journalistic roles of humanitarian and human rights NGOs. Adopting a multi-perspective, -disciplinary, and -methodological approach and drawing on diverse strands of research and theoretical frameworks, NGOs as newsmakers offers relevant insights into the communication efforts of these actors. The book proves to be a significant, innovative and wide-ranging contribution to the relatively fragmented academic literature and debate on contemporary NGO journalism in general and its content, production, and - to a lesser extent - reception dimensions. More concretely, NGOs as newsmakers consists of seven chapters which, using a historicized and contextualized approach, focus on various relevant but barely explored aspects of NGOs' communication efforts.