Global News and Information Flow in the Internet Age
Internet is universally characterized as a revolutionary medium as it has opened up a new world of information and communication. For instance, the International Telecommunication Union stated that by 2004, internet users had grown to nearly 700 million from around 360 million in 2000. However, at the same years three quarters of the world’s population did not own a telephone, a computer and a modem.
Origin and early history of news agencies
The first half of the 1800s, the mass market press emerged by the creation of at least three of the major Westren news agencies: Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse. The mass market emerged as advertising became a significant source of revenue in industrialized societies. Adding to this, the rise in literacy and economic levels played an important part in this emergence.
Michael Schudson attributed the mass market to the emergence of a “democratic market society” or the “Jacksonian” or mass democracy.
Agence France-Presse
Among the oldest of the four major Western international news agencies is Agence France –Presse. It was created by Charles-Louis Havas in 1835. Havas expanded his operations by hiring more correspondents and used the newly invented telegraph for faster delivery of news.
With the control of the Nazi over the French government, the agency was part of the official Nazi news agency which was set up as a propaganda office. In 1957, the agency became independent and took the name of the Agence France-Presse.
Associated press
The Associated Press grew out of the Harbor News Association, formed by 10 men representing six News York City newspapers in 1848. The newspaper at that time competed by sending reporters out in row boats to meet the ships as they arrived in New York harbor. It opened its first overseas bureau in Nova Scotia.
Supplemental News Agencies
The major supplemental services in the US are the New York Times News Services, the Los Angles Times-Washington Post News Services, and Dow Jones Newswires.
Broadcast News Services
Reuters and Associated Press Television News and the two dominant video news agencies in the world today, after taking over the operations of Visnews and WTN, respectively. Reuters has long claimed to have the world’s largest television news services, twice the size of CNN’s international news-gathering television news services, twice the size of CNN’s international news gathering operations.
Global Newspapers, Magazines, and Broadcasters
Several newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting organizations also play a significant role as puveyors of news globally. Three newspapers that are especially valued by opinion leaders around the world are The New York Times, The Times of London, and The Guardian.
The London Times, which became a tabloid in November 2004, had a daily circulation of 682.109, and The Guardian sold 377.292 copies daily in late 2004.
Around newsmagazines, three stand out for their global reach-Time, Newsweek, and Britain’s Economist. CNN International’s biggest competitor today is BBC World. Another significant player in international television news broadcasting is Deutsche Well TV, the GERMAN Public broadcaster’s international satellite television channel. DW-TV broadcast news and public affairs programming in Germany, English, and Spanish in rotating 2 hour time slots.
News Flow Patterns: Offline and Online
Developing countries have also raised specific concerns since the 1970s regarding the pattern of news flow emerging from the dominance of Western News agencies. People are forced to see each other, and even themselves, through the medium of these agencies because they are major suppliers of news to the developing countries which raise a big concern.
Internet is universally characterized as a revolutionary medium as it has opened up a new world of information and communication. For instance, the International Telecommunication Union stated that by 2004, internet users had grown to nearly 700 million from around 360 million in 2000. However, at the same years three quarters of the world’s population did not own a telephone, a computer and a modem.
Origin and early history of news agencies
The first half of the 1800s, the mass market press emerged by the creation of at least three of the major Westren news agencies: Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse. The mass market emerged as advertising became a significant source of revenue in industrialized societies. Adding to this, the rise in literacy and economic levels played an important part in this emergence.
Michael Schudson attributed the mass market to the emergence of a “democratic market society” or the “Jacksonian” or mass democracy.
Agence France-Presse
Among the oldest of the four major Western international news agencies is Agence France –Presse. It was created by Charles-Louis Havas in 1835. Havas expanded his operations by hiring more correspondents and used the newly invented telegraph for faster delivery of news.
With the control of the Nazi over the French government, the agency was part of the official Nazi news agency which was set up as a propaganda office. In 1957, the agency became independent and took the name of the Agence France-Presse.
Associated press
The Associated Press grew out of the Harbor News Association, formed by 10 men representing six News York City newspapers in 1848. The newspaper at that time competed by sending reporters out in row boats to meet the ships as they arrived in New York harbor. It opened its first overseas bureau in Nova Scotia.
Supplemental News Agencies
The major supplemental services in the US are the New York Times News Services, the Los Angles Times-Washington Post News Services, and Dow Jones Newswires.
Broadcast News Services
Reuters and Associated Press Television News and the two dominant video news agencies in the world today, after taking over the operations of Visnews and WTN, respectively. Reuters has long claimed to have the world’s largest television news services, twice the size of CNN’s international news-gathering television news services, twice the size of CNN’s international news gathering operations.
Global Newspapers, Magazines, and Broadcasters
Several newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting organizations also play a significant role as puveyors of news globally. Three newspapers that are especially valued by opinion leaders around the world are The New York Times, The Times of London, and The Guardian.
The London Times, which became a tabloid in November 2004, had a daily circulation of 682.109, and The Guardian sold 377.292 copies daily in late 2004.
Around newsmagazines, three stand out for their global reach-Time, Newsweek, and Britain’s Economist. CNN International’s biggest competitor today is BBC World. Another significant player in international television news broadcasting is Deutsche Well TV, the GERMAN Public broadcaster’s international satellite television channel. DW-TV broadcast news and public affairs programming in Germany, English, and Spanish in rotating 2 hour time slots.
News Flow Patterns: Offline and Online
Developing countries have also raised specific concerns since the 1970s regarding the pattern of news flow emerging from the dominance of Western News agencies. People are forced to see each other, and even themselves, through the medium of these agencies because they are major suppliers of news to the developing countries which raise a big concern.
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