Shrinking World – the reaction
November 8, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Freeguard
Coverage of international news might be declining, but our report describing the process attracted a great deal of attention.
‘The story has moved on’ – but where to?
November 5, 2010 | Posted by Christine Finn
I am a freelance, and self-funded, foreign correspondent, an increasingly hard sell when international news coverage is diminishing in the UK press. It can’t just be about budgets: I don’t get expenses and travel like a gap-year student, unless I am filing and need a bedside phone.
Foreign news and the distance it affords us
November 4, 2010 | Posted by Turi Munthe
International news, in case you hadn’t realised, is disappearing across the UK media. The statistics make frightening reading, according to Shrinking World – the exceptionally clear new pamphlet published by the Media Standards Trust.
What future for the foreign correspondent?
November 3, 2010 | Posted by Suzanne Franks
The publication of Shrinking World – based on research about newspaper coverage of international news – gives an invaluable perspective on the way we report the world beyond these shores.
Moscow Days
November 2, 2010 | Posted by Harry Edgington
I got to Moscow on 1st November 1989 to take up my role as Moscow Correspondent for the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. On 10th November the Berlin wall came down.
Shrinking World
November 1, 2010 | Posted by David Loyn
William Howard Russell’s dispatches for The Times from the Crimean war inspired Tennyson’s most memorable poem, led to Florence Nightingale’s mission to reform nursing, and brought down a government. Before Russell news from abroad came mostly from official sources – [...]
The report we didn’t set out to write
| Posted by Martin Moore
We didn’t set out to write a report on international news. We (the Media Standards Trust) set out to get a handle on what had really changed in newspapers – in terms of content – over the last few decades. [...]
Foreign news coverage in UK press falls 40% since 1979
| Posted by Media Standards Trust
A new report published by the Media Standards Trust finds that: Foreign news coverage across four UK national newspapers has fallen by 40% since 1979 in absolute terms International news makes up only 11% of the national newspapers studied compared [...]
Shrinking World: The decline of international reporting in the British press
| Posted by Media Standards Trust
In parts of the British press foreign coverage has fallen by almost 40% since 1979, now making up only just over a tenth of stories in the paper. In an increasingly globalised world how can this decline be explained? Does it matter? Is a new foreign news ecology emerging?
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