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Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011
Diversification of Foreign News Reporting: The example of Foreign
Correspondents based in Turkey
Yanardagoglu, Eylem
Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Foreign news reporting or foreign correspondence is an area within diverse
journalistic practices which has developed on its own right since the 19th century.
Although foreign news lost its appeal after the end of the Cold war, the events of
September 11th has changed the value and importance attached to international
news reporting. In this respect, recent studies on international news have begun to
consider working experiences of foreign correspondents in authoritarian states such
as such as Russia or like those in the Middle East. Others (such as a research
conducted recently under the auspices of the Reuters Institute) question whether
foreign correspondents are becoming redundant and focus on the technological as
well as economic pressures on contemporary journalism. In this paper I would like to
offer some initial findings of a research on foreign correspondents based in Turkey.
This research focus on their experiences and explores the diversity within their
professional background, gender, ethnicity, approaches and values to foreign news
reporting. It aims to map the experiences of journalists in order to explore the
similarities and differences on the professional level. The data are derived from small
questionnaire and semi-structured in-depth interviews with foreign correspondents
who are based in Istanbul.
International On-Line News. A mediological analysis of diversity versus the
traditional
Tous-Rovirosa, Anna
Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences, Autonomous University of
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
The aim of this paper is to analyze International On-Line News from a mediological
point of view. That is, determining to which extent themes, genres and myths are
intertwined in cybernews construction. The methodology (tested before: Tous, 2008;
2010) is being applied in news analysis, divided into Diachronic analysis (relationship
to the Genre, History, Optional and Compulsory Regularities, according to Ryan,
1979) and the Synchronic analysis (Thematic Recurrence, Myth). Quotation and
references are being classified according to the following typology (serious/ironic;
descriptive/metaphoric; quotation or punctual allusion, explicit/implicit).
The methodology consists on analysing online newspapers trying to determine which
kind of thematic recurrence strategies are being used in nowadays news. Towards
this objective, we will try
1) to determine the use of invariable ingredients (Calabrese 1987; Villanueva, 1991),
using the mythological comparatism (Lévi-Strauss, 1958; Ginzburg, 1989; Dumézil,
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