THE DEPENDENCE ON GLOBAL MEDIA OF FOREIGN POLICY REPORTING OF THE YUGOSLAV DAILY NEWSPAPERS
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THE DEPENDENCE ON GLOBAL MEDIA OF FOREIGN POLICY REPORTING OF THE YUGOSLAV DAILY NEWSPAPERS (SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 1989)
THE DEPENDENCE ON GLOBAL MEDIA OF FOREIGN POLICY REPORTING OF THE YUGOSLAV DAILY NEWSPAPERS (SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 1989)

Author(s): Bojan Blazhevski
Subject(s): Communication studies, Politics and communication, Geopolitics
Published by: Centar za Geopolitiku
Keywords: Global media;International;Newspapers;Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: This paper is based on the assumption that the reporting on international events by the Yugoslav daily newspapers Nova Makedonija, Delo and Politika, in their 1989 printed editions, was insignificantly influenced by the global media. We begin this study by using the method of quantitative content analysis. The data analysed were gathered over a four month period i.e. from September to December 1989. The Yugoslav national agency Tanjug and the correspondent staff of these news paperswere still the main sources of information for covering international events. However,heavy, but indirect influence of the global media was present in the Yugoslav newspapers Nova Makedonija and Politika. Their media representation on how the world was oriented toward actual events that happened on the northern hemisphere.Military and political conflicts were the main topics of interest for covering the southern parts of the world. Empirical results also revealed surprising contrasts in journalistic professionalism and international reporting itself among the leading Yugoslav newspapers in 1989.

  • Issue Year: 1/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 219-241
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English