HOW COMPETITIVE ARE THE GLOBAL NEWS NETWORKS?: BBC World News and Al Jazeera English reporting of the 2009 Iranian election

Mohd Faizal Kasmani

doi:10.1080/1461670X.2012.726491

HOW COMPETITIVE ARE THE GLOBAL NEWS NETWORKS? BBC World News and Al Jazeera English reporting of the 2009 Iranian election

Mohd Faizal Kasmani

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This article reports findings from a comparative analysis of BBC World News (BBCWN) and Al Jazeera English (AJE) designed to investigate the extent to which competitiveness in the international news market-targeting the global English audience-shapes global news reporting. BBCWN was selected to represent the mainstream Western global media traffic, while AJE represents the contra-flow category of global news media. The 2009 Iranian presidential election is offered as a case study and the reporting by both networks is subject to qualitative discourse analysis. The results are triangulated with interviews with correspondents and editors from BBCWN and AJE. The study concludes that the argument concerning international media competition, which suggests that news networks would place emphasis on gaining audiences to attract advertisers' interest, is less relevant to the BBCWN and AJE.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	584-601
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journalism Studies
Volume	14
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2012.726491
Publication status	Published - Aug 2013

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