Name : Junaid Zaheer Raja

Enrollment : 01 – 154162 – 029

Subject : Media and Globalization

Department : BS-Media Studies 7 - (A)

Submitted To : Dr. Waheed Hussain

International Reporting
Defining International Reporting / Journalism:

“Is a news style that encompasses a

global outlook and considers issues that transcend national boundaries like climate
change, focusing on news that are intercontinental and the relationships between
nation states. Global journalism is different from foreign journalism in that, foreign
journalism focuses on stories in different regions in that regions specific context, while
global journalism works to bring foreign issues into a global context.”

 Most news about foreign countries concerns wars, elections, and natural disasters.

In international journalism emphasis is made in subjects that give you a good understanding
of global issues. In international journalism emphasis is given to analytical skills compounded
with a baggage of knowledge in philosophy, literature, economics, politics and a very wide view
of cultures of the world.

Journalism today is unrestrained by national political borders in most of the world. The Internet
and social media make it possible to follow events around the globe and to obtain news and
information from multiple sources at the same time.

However, the press and individual journalists can operate differently in some ways from country
to country, depending on national laws, political systems, cultural values and economic resources
of news organizations. You will learn how to understand national press systems, constraints on
press freedom, broad techniques for covering international news from within your own country
and the important work of international correspondents. You will be empowered to consider how
you could serve your audience by doing journalism from an international perspective.

Today, we all have choices:

Members of the public can use the Internet to check facts and compare stories. Citizens can
demand better reporting and more global perspectives in the journalism from their own country.

The media landscape has never been as expansive as it is today. The explosion of digital, social,
blogs, and influencers has increased the number and types of outlets that are publishing content
by many orders of magnitude. News and information has been utterly democratized, and it is no
longer the case communications and PR teams can rely on a handful of journalists and a small
number of publications to get their stories out.

To fully understand the media growth trend, “Onclusive” analyzed over 1.6 billion pieces of
content published globally during the calendar year of 2018. The numbers tell a story of a media
ecosystem that continues to expand at an accelerated rate, and an ecosystem that is becoming
increasingly democratized by a “long tail” of lower tier publications.
The 2018 Global Media Report reveals key findings:

 A 16% increase in the total number of media properties globally which published content
from January to December 2018.
 The total number of articles published by these media outlets also increased – by 28%
 Tier 3 media outlets represented 95% of the incremental publishers.
 The average number of articles published by Tier 3 outlets rose sharply, while both Tier 1
and Tier published fewer articles.
 A dramatic increase in the average number of articles published per author, but a decrease
in the average character count per article.
In this report you will also see the Onclusive 2018 Top 50 Publisher List which ranks global
media platforms based on the total number of articles published.
  Why is International Reporting Important?
In many ways it has always been thus, but in the era of satellites and instantaneous reporting
from anywhere in the world with satellite news services such as CNN and Sky as well as 24-hour
news channels, global reporting has come to define the stories that people everywhere should
care about. It is in this way that the media influences our judgment and makes us, as readers or
viewers, rank one place above another.

What is known as international journalism is actually political science. In international

journalism emphasis is made in subjects which give you a good understanding of global issues.
In international journalism emphasis is given to analytical skills compounded with a baggage of
knowledge in philosophy, literature, economics, politics and a very wide view of cultures of the
world. To be able to use that knowledge one is equipped with the basic tools in journalism.

While a journalist by training puts in a lot of academic time in subjects related to journalism an
international journalist is only taught how to make use of journalistic tools to convey messages.
In international journalism rhetoric and subjects related to the art of oratory are given emphasis.

International Journalism sounds like it would cover stories that include news from around the
world. Well, that it is part of it but it is also similar to international relation and government
relations. This is the first time in history we are experiencing intentional stories in our major
papers and on major TV stations that ARE NOT FACT CHECKED. Sadly, much of the world
has been experiencing this type of propaganda for centuries. International Journalists have direct
access to US press conferences and are given interviews that help our press representatives
ensure these foreign journalists understand and see our side of the story. There are many
countries that have government controlled press so our government is careful to try and establish
decent relationships with them in order to pass on the actual events and facts not opinions.
  Berglez gives us a definition of global journalism as a new kind of news reporting, which
is very well suited for the increasing inter-connectedness of our world today.

“Journalism (at its best) can help us understand the world,

And our own place in the world.”

According to Peter Berglez Journalism should:

 View the world as one place

 Put events into their proper contexts, using analysis and in-depth coverage
 See the whole picture

By showing the connections between people and events, by showing how the actions in one
place produce a result in another place, global journalism makes people smarter and prepares
them for making good decisions.

An idea of International Reporting

 World: More connected

 People: More mobile
 National economy: Tied to global Markets
 News moves faster
 Internet: No national borders

Aspects of International Reporting

 A style of reporting and analyzing news events

 People: Journalists around the world
 Reporting from other countries: Same story, different viewpoints / The foreign
correspondent
International journalists are now acquiring war safety skills

Some 23 reporters from 15 countries attend Anadolu Agency's 17th term of war journalism
training in Ankara.
Anadolu Agency has gathered international journalists for a training which arms them with skills
to avoid danger while reporting under emergency situations.

The 12-day long course started on Sept. 23, is providing training to reporters from Afghanistan,
Ethiopia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Croatia, Syria, Colombia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Algeria,
Palestine, Jordan, the Philippines and Pakistan.

They were also taught first aid, close defense, use of gas masks, surviving in water and advance
driving techniques.

The trainees also experienced public events and demonstration stimulations, and grenade smoke,
tear gas and water canon at the Police Academy.

Over two dozen separate lessons are scheduled to be taught by expert academics and professional
security personnel within the scope of program.

Those who successfully complete the program will be awarded with internationally recognized
certificates.

Turkish traffic police officers also instructed the participants on advance driving techniques and
vehicular safety.

Timothy Olanrewaju, 51, a senior war reporter from Nigeria, told Anadolu Agency that the
driving techniques have been "very impactful" for him as he covers the northeast region of his
country which suffers frequent Boko Haram attacks.

"It is a life time experience and I am going to share it with my colleagues back home," he said.

Zoraiz Bangash, a journalist from Pakistan, said that the training provided hands-on skills and he
will return home much better equipped.

"I'm very happy to be here and learning so much from Turkey."

Criticism:
International Perspective:

 There is also the valid worry that exposure within a country of international news can
cause a watering down of local values, both cultural, ethical and in many cases religious.
Even more important is the availability now for critical and opposing political views
about individual countries, which in times past were easily censored by not allowing
publication of newspapers and magazines and jamming radio transmissions. This is no
longer possible with satellite and Internet transmissions. So long as people have a
receiver capable of picking up these international news and current affairs programmes,
they can easily find out what others are saying about their country and about their
political beliefs.
 Governments can of course still control physical access: they can ban journalists from
entering their country or from reporting about its affairs. They can, and do, ban the
distribution of satellite dishes; they control cable content; they suspend licenses and shut
down stations or newspapers as punishment for publishing content of which they
disapprove. But increasingly this is becoming more and more difficult. Asia’s media
systems, particularly those of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, boast stunning
developments.
 Global news sources are very uneven. Some cities have hundreds of reporters from
around the world covering stories that happen there; some countries and even continents
— inevitably the poorer more remote ones — have hardly any journalists from outside
covering events at all. This of course affects the picture of the world as a whole and the
picture of individual trouble spots. The other problem about global news coverage is the
pressure to over simplify. Time and space constraints inevitably tend to reduce what is
happening — however important and whatever the global repercussions are simplicity,
often to one basic story around which all other events oat.
 One of the big challenges about the practice of global journalism is that global and local
are becoming mixed. This is particularly the case in relation to television news, which is
now instantaneous from anywhere to anywhere. As with print, television receives most of
 its pictures not from its own correspondents around the world but from the television
news agencies which are totally global in their coverage and distribution.

References:
1. Practising Global Journalism: Exploring reporting issues worldwide
By John Herbert

2. Ward, Stephen J. A. (2010-03-26). Global Journalism Ethics. McGill-Queen's

Press - MQUP. ISBN 9780773585225.

3. Berglez, Peter (2008-12-01). "What Is Global Journalism?". Journalism

Studies. 9 (6): 845–858. doi:10.1080/14616700802337727. ISSN 1461-670X.

4. Merrill, John Calhoun (1983). Global journalism: a survey of the world's mass
media. Longman. ISBN 9780582283381.