The world according to (Thomson) Reuters

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ID7397001
AuthorsJohn Jirik (Lehigh University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume2
Issue1
Pages24-41
Publication date2013-04-16
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSur le journalisme About journalism Sobre jornalismo (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2295-0710 • E-ISSN: 2295-0729
PublisherUniversité libre de Bruxelles (PUBLISHER • BE)
DOI10.25200/slj.v2.n1.2013.65
OpenAlexW1576082009
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

This paper analyzes seven weeks of Reuters television content from mid-2011. The paper situates academic interest in the global news agencies in the argument for a New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO). It reviews the literature on research of news agency production and identifies the latest modeling of an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the agency-client relationship. The paper describes the ‘big picture’ of the world that Reuters makes available to most clients. It then analyzes that picture in terms of the extant literature and history of Reuters content to determine the degree of change, if any, that is evident in Reuters output today, compared to the past. The paper finds that Reuters continues to focus on the United States and Western Europe. It continues to focus on hard news topics, such as politics, economics, crime and conflict as its core news. It remains a largely Anglophone service and most of its voices of authority are male. Significantly, the paper finds that GDP is a reliable predictor of story count by geographic focus in Reuters output

Agency (philosophy · Argument (complex analysis · Economics · Extant taxon · Focus (optics · News media · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Globalization and Cultural Identity · History · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Media Studies and Communication

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