Television News & The Limits Of Globalisation - Softcover

Zeng, Rong

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908684143 ISBN 13: 9781908684141

Publisher: University of Buckingham Press, 2012

Synopsis

Britain VS China: A comparison between competing television channels exploring how cultural values and world views bear upon the business of news production.

Despite similarities in technology and organisation, and the rapid development of trans-nationalism, globalisation has its limits. At a time of radical economic and technological change, Rong Zeng in Television News and the Limits of Globalisation goes inside the newsrooms to analyse their products and bulletins first hand in order gain a deeper understanding of the limits and opportunities for global journalism in today's rapidly changing world.

This project is the first and only study which compare broadcast journalists and their working practices in the UK and China. Zeng's findings will contribute to the field of comparative journalism by endeavouring to understand global journalism in different national and cultural settings.

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Review

As the transnationalisation of media studies gets under way, we need more comparative studies of the everyday practices that go to make up media in different places. Rong Zeng's thoroughly researched and clearly written study of news production in the UK and China is an important contribution to that new agenda for media research. --Nick Couldry, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College

This book offers a valuable and unique comparative insight into journalistic norms and practices in two very different cultures. While current debates tend to be dominated by the impact of globalisation, new technology and changing business models, this book addresses vital questions about newsrooms routines, approaches to accuracy and ethics, notions of professionalism and traditions of story-telling within a comparative analytical framework. It throws a fascinating spotlight on the similarities as well as the differences in the practice of journalism in two very different cultural environments. --Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications, School of Media, University of Westminster

The publication of this book is timely. Chinese media institutions have embarked on a massive expansion of international operations and are struggling to achieve recognition in a world heretofore dominated by the Anglophone media and Anglophone cultural traditions. From the UK s leading media research institute, CAMRI, comes this very relevant product of one of its star students. It is valuable not only to scholars but also to the media industry in which the author has now successfully established herself as a programme maker as well as a thinker. --Hugo de Burgh, Professor and Director, The China Media Centre, University of Westminster

About the Author

After graduating from Peking University Dr Zeng was a journalist at China Central Television. She took her MSc at the London School of Economics，was a Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and completed her PhD on comparative television journalism at the University of Westminster. In 2011 she published books on Chinese environment correspondents and on government media handling. With leading Chinese and British television professionals, Rong Zeng founded Houghton Street Media (HSM) in 2011. HSM produces both factual entertainment and current affairs series for China Central Television and other television channels.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Buckingham Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908684143
• ISBN 13: 9781908684141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350