Global News Flow

Cooperative Study of Foreign News Flow in the 1990s

Spinning Globe

Do you watch CBS Evening News in Paris? Are you a regular viewer of Moscow TV news on cable in the United States? Maybe you read the Financial Times in Beijing, the Wall Street Journal in Sao Paulo, or the People's Daily in San Francisco. Or surf through Der Spiegel on CompuServe, catch the daily Panafrican News Agency on Nando.Net or browse any of the 600-plus daily newspapers from Kuwait to South Africa that publish electronic editions.

If so, you're part of a revolution in international news and global news flow. If not, wait a few months, and the revolution will catch up with you. In fact, the revolution probably has changed your local broadcast media and hometown newspapers, even if they still look and sound pretty much like they did a generation ago.

Welcome to the news of the world and the world of the news in the '90s!

On these pages, you can read about a global study of foreign news and international news flow that involves researchers in nearly 50 countries. Contact them directly if you have questions about their part of the study or the media in their countries. Read about the study and see some of the results.

Over the coming months, we will post lots of additional information, including reproductions of newspaper front pages and excerpts from broadcast news. At some point, you will be able to download data and do your own analysis.

The largest (we think) cooperative study ever undertaken, and surely the largest and most comprehensive study of news around the world. All here at the click of a URL.

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Here's what you can find right now:

THE PROPOSAL

BACKGROUND NOTES

STUDY DESIGN

PARTICIPANTS

RELATED INFORMATION

RESULTS

PLANS

GUESTBOOK