Journalism Across Cultures: An Introduction

摘要

Cross-national comparative surveys of particular sectors of media and cultural production are clearly a developing trend in media studies. The nation-centric study seems increasingly old-fashioned, having been surpassed by the increasingly interdependent and interconnected world of contemporary times. In journalism studies, this is compounded by previous failures to take into account the journalism of non-western cultures and to acknowledge broad political differences across the globe. The trend is confirmed by Levi Obijiofer and Folker Hanusch's Journalism Across Cultures, for among other things it takes on board the various frameworks informing different models of journalism education and training around the world. In striving to move away from ratification of the dominant western version of mainstream journalism, the authors focus broadly on a range of journalistic cultures.