Globalization and International News

Globalization of national news?

• Hans Henrik Holm et al.: ”Verden på tilbud” investigates globalization of news at three levels:
• Media structure and media policies: increased competition, audience orientation in news etc.
• Editorial structure – some changes in relation to foreign news desk and other news desks
• News values; journalistic selection and framing – least affected by globalization

The declining independence of the foreign news desk

• Foreign dimension of issues spread to other topic areas
• Cooperation between business news and foreign news, environmental news and foreign news
• Foreign news is placed in many parts of the newspaper
• EU reporting has become both domestic and foreign

Reporting on EU

• Tore Slaatta: ”Europeanisation and the Norwegian News Media”
• National politics frames reporting on EU
• A double domestication: content and sources
• Mark Ørsten: ”Transnational politisk journalistik”:
• National conflicts dominates reporting on EU, e.g. clash between national policy on environmental issues and EU regulations
• Framing of EU as bureaucratic, remote etc.
• No systematic coverage of EU matters and institutions; no systematic coverage of European Parliament

Different public spheres at a European level

• Erik Oddvar Eriksen: ”An Emergent Public Sphere”
• Overarching general publics - however not integrated but predominantly national
• Transnational segmented publics
• Strong – institutionalized - publics

Globalization of the public sphere and the role of news media

• Stig Hjarvard: ”News in a Globalized Society”

Transnational integration of news

• Time:
• Syncronization between broadcasters
• Live
• Newsrooms take decisions in sync with other newsrooms
• Increased speed of decision making and production cycles; up-dates, on-line availability
• Space:
• Both newsrooms and audiences have access to different socio-geographic levels: local, national, transnational - increased transparency
• Communicative space not congruent with social or public political space