Understanding Global News: A Critical Introduction

by Jaap van Ginneken

Book Overview

A lively and critical introduction to the news media, this book has been written specifically for media students and trainee journalists. Understanding Global News invites the reader to explore contemporary journalistic practice, and questions the assumption that the media provide a mere window on the world.

Challenging the often unquestioned notions of media objectivity, the author turns the classic questions: Who? What? When?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076195709X
• ISBN13: 9780761957096
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"