Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents - Couverture souple

Hannerz, Ulf

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226315754 ISBN 13 : 9780226315751

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2004

Synopsis

Foreign News gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how they work, Ulf Hannerz also compares the ways correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.

Hannerz draws on extensive interviews with correspondents in cities as diverse as Jerusalem, Tokyo, and Johannesburg. He shows not only how different story lines evolve in different correspondent beats, but also how the correspondents' home country and personal interests influence the stories they write. Reporting can go well beyond coverage of a specific event, using the news instead to reveal deeper insights into a country or a people to link them to long-term trends or structures of global significance. Ultimately, Hannerz argues that both anthropologists and foreign correspondents can learn from each other in their efforts to educate a public about events and peoples far beyond our homelands.

The result of nearly a decade's worth of work, Foreign News is a provocative study that will appeal to both general readers and those concerned with globalization.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ulf Hannerz is a professor of social anthropology at Stockholm University. He is the author of several books including, most recently, Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226315754
• ISBN 13: 9780226315751
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible