Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-197).

Thesis (M.A. (Journalism and Media Studies))--Rhodes University, 2005. / "Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Journalism and Media Studies)" -T.p.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin. / Typescript (carbon copy). eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [i]-iii [2d set]).

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This dissertation examines the agendas and frames used by the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) and Reuters in their coverage of issues and actors of the May 2005 Ethiopian Elections, by employing agenda-setting and framing theories. The study applies quantitative and qualitative methods and examined fifty news stories from each news agency, and forwards five main findings: One, ENA and Reuters differed in setting agendas. While ENA focused on the legitimacy, Reuters emphasised on the killings and arrests of the electoral process. Second, ENA and Reuters differed in their motives to make some actors more salient than others. Third, ENA framed Elections processes as rightful, while Reuters framed them as disfigured. Fourth, ENA framed government parties as visionary and indomitable, and the oppositions as wrongdoers. Contrastingly, Reuters framed the oppositions as victims, and the government parties as brutal actors. And finally, by so doing, both agencies reflected their respective interests. / Communication Science / MA (International Communication)

Tada, kai dar nebuvo žiniasklaidos priemonių, naujienos sklido iš lūpų į lūpas. Ir tik per pastaruosius amžius naujienų komunikacijos vaidmuo išaugo labai stipriai, konstruodamas mūsų požiūrį į tai kas vyksta aplinkui. Tuo tarpu naujienų agentūros užima labai svarbias pozicijas socialinės tikrovės konstravime, nes tai vieta, kur gimsta žinios, ir tik po to apipinamos į reikiamą kontekstą bei išleidžiamos. Šiandien naujienų agentūroms priskiriamos be galo svarbios funkcijos: dalyvauti tikrovės konstravime, viešinti aktualius įvykius ir būti svarbia priemone skleidžiant moralines visuomenės vertybės. Šiame darbe yra analizuojama, kaip naujienų agentūros BNS ir ELTA pateikia žinias apie vieną kontraversiškiausių Lietuvos įvykių – LEO LT projekto susikūrimą. Darbo tikslas – palyginti BNS ir ELTOS pranešimų apie LEO LT turinį ir nustatyti, ar žinučių tekstuose yra subjektyvumo apraiškų, išryškėjančių iš vertinamųjų elementų, informacijos atrankos, pateikimo būdų ir kt. Interviu metu su agentūrų vadovais bandoma išsiaiškinti, kokie yra žinių atrinkimo ir pateikimo kriterijai, žinių kūrimo tendencijos, agentūrų veikimo principai, kiek ir kokius įvykius, susijusius su LEO LT atveju pateikia viena agentūra, o kiek kita. Šio mokslinio darbo objektas yra BNS ir ELTOS pranešimai žiniasklaidai apie LEO LT atvejį bei minėtų agentūrų žinutėse pateikiama informacija, jos tikslumas, naujienų pateikimo būdai. Pirmasis darbo uždavinys, – paaiškinti, kokią raišką įgyja žinučių ideologija... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The title of the thesis – The activity of News Agencies ELTA and BNS. The case of LEO. When there were no tools of mass communication, the news were spreading from lip to lip. During last centuries the act of news communication rapidly grew up, building up our attitude towards everything that is going around us. Meanwhile, the news agencies take very important positions in building up social reality, because it is the place where news born, and after that they are being put into the context that is needed and released. Today news agencies have very important functions: to take a part in building up reality, to publicize topical events and to be the important tool in spreading the moral values of the society. The main thing analysed in this project is how the news agencies BNS and ELTA give news about one of the most controversial events in Lithuania – the creation of project of LEO LT. The purpose of this project is to compare the content of BNS and ELTA reports about LEO LT and to estimate if there are any subjectivity in text messages, which shows up from the appreciable elements, choosing information, ways of presentation and etc. During the interview with the heads of the news agencies, it is being tried to ascertain, what are the criterions of sorting out and giving the news, tendencies of creating news, principles of news agencies working, how many and what events, having a connection with the case of LEO LT, gives two agencies. The objects of this... [to full text]

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1988.

A Nazi news editor declared in 1934 that there were indefinable "magic connections" between news and politics. This dissertation demystifies those links between communications and society. An untold story of news networks lies behind the media sources that we mine constantly as historians. In particular, news agencies, the essential bottleneck of news supply, remain obscured behind the newspapers printing their reports. This study explores why news agencies became the intuitive modern form of news collection and dissemination and how they functioned as a central locus for tussles over the creation of news from events, the limits of government or business control over news, and the role of technology in revising communications infrastructures. 1905 to 1945 represented the zenith of German faith in news agencies’ ability to overturn the existing world order. Along with industrialists and academics, politicians and bureaucrats thought that news agencies could change not only Germany’s role in global communications, but politics, economics, and society too. Coupled with technical advances in wireless telegraphy, news agencies seemed the best means to improve Germany’s international reputation, boost foreign trade, and create societal cohesion at home. News agencies seemed the key to controlling public opinion as well as to creating global news networks conducive to Germany. This news agency consensus united German elites of all political stripes in the belief that news agencies provided an ideal outlet to solve political, social, and economic problems. While such schemes did not always succeed, German news agencies often altered the modern infrastructure of global communications. They briefly achieved media dominance on the oceans, challenged Reuters’ and Agence Havas’ control of European news, and became a leading supplier of news to South America and East Asia in the Nazi period. This work illustrates the interdependence of communications and history by integrating approaches from business history, communications studies, sociology, book history, and the history of technology. It shows the spread and success of German news at a moment when news agencies played a central and underappreciated role in the negotiation of a new relationship between politics, economics, and society in first half of the twentieth century. / History

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The New Zealand news media have covered Iraq War II extensively, and from different perspectives, shaped by reporting restrictions, public opinion and editorial policies of the media organisations. This thesis studies New Zealand's three largest daily newspapers' coverage during the invasion phase of the war exploring their reliance on global news agencies such as Reuters, AFP and AP and on elite British and US newspapers. The research also aims to explore the newspapers' dependence on global news agencies and other content providers and the extent of US and Coalition domination of the news agenda. Global news media, including mainstream news agencies which mostly rely on government and military officials for information on military conflicts such as Iraq War II, become channels for propaganda and facilitate elite sources to set the agenda for national and global audiences. A content analysis of the three daily newspapers - The New Zealand Herald, The Dominion Post and The Press - reveals that the war coverage in New Zealand was framed by international news agencies, US and UK newspapers. And their reliance on US and Coalition official sources in the news construction meant that they became vehicles for propaganda. The mainstream New Zealand newspapers' coverage of Iraq War II is examined through the contexts of globalisation, news flows, media-source relations, news management and propaganda as these are the issues that have shaped the war journalism discourse in New Zealand. As there have not been many studies in New Zealand of news media coverage of wars, this research is an opportunity for studying mainstream newspapers of a country that is not a direct participant in the war. It gives the opportunity to compare reporting by newspapers in a country not directly involved in Iraq War II with that of countries that are directly involved. What emerges from this study is that the level of involvement in a war is no longer the most important factor in determining the direction of news media coverage. News values, globalisation, economic interdependence, news flows and propaganda are all highly significant factors affecting coverage. This thesis shows that the US military and government sources dominated the news agenda through various media management strategies. The findings of this research also demonstrate the dominance of the global news agencies and US and UK publications as main content providers in the war coverage. The implication of this is that the few Western media outlets are able to set the news agenda for news retailers such as New Zealand newspapers, and their readers.