International News Coverage and the Korean Conflict : The Challenges of Reporting Practices

This book explores journalism practices and the dynamics of international news media in Korea, and examines the ways in which Korean journalists and foreign correspondents cover news stories about the Korean conflict. It notably explores news gathering practices concerning the Korean conflict, and investigates factors that influence journalists? news production through interview with foreign correspondents including bureau chiefs from news outlets as diverse as AP, Reuters, The New York Times, the BBC, Le Figaro, and the Mainichi Shimbun. Extending its coverage to provide a rationale for the proliferation of new media both from encoders and decoders? perspectives, and drawing on lively empirical data to examine the processes of news production, the book addresses how international media impacts on the stability and security in the region under the influence of the competing superpowers ? the United States and China.

Author: Miri Moon

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: Mar 29, 2019

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 9811362904

ISBN-13: 9789811362903