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<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Preface to the Ninth Edition xi</p> <p>Introduction: Fall and Rise of the Media 1</p> <p>1 Information for a Global System 9</p> <p>2 Game Changers: Twitters, Videos, Blogs 19</p> <p>3 GlobalMediaUnderStress 35</p> <p>4 ImpactofGreatEvents 46</p> <p>5 English: The Language of theWorld 61</p> <p>6 Brazil: Latin America’s Communication Leader 77<br />Heloiza Golbspan Herscovitz</p> <p>7 Russian Media: Struggling Against New Controls 99<br />Natalia Bubnova</p> <p>8 India: Liberalization Spurs Phenomenal Media Growth 119<br />Sandhya Rao</p> <p>9 China: A New Media Face But Tighter Control 138</p> <p>10 Africa: The Mobile Continent 159</p> <p>11 The Middle East: Media in the Midst of Turmoil 177<br />Rasha Abdulla</p> <p>12 Reporters Abroad: Paid, Free, and Harassed 196</p> <p>13 ReportingWar 210</p> <p>14 Public Diplomacy and Propaganda 229</p> <p>15 Conclusions and Outlook 246</p> <p>Selected Bibliography 259</p> <p>Index 263</p>

<b>William A. Hachten</b> is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for 30 years. His publications include: <i>New Media for a New China </i>(Wiley, 2010 with J. Scotton), <i>The Troubles of Journalism</i> (2005, 3^rd edition), <i>The Growth of Media in the Third World</i> (1993), and <i>The Press and Apartheid</i> (1984, with C.A. Giffard).<br /><br /><b>James F. Scotton</b> is Associate Professor of Journalism at Marquette University. He has taught in Lebanon, China, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, and has worked as a reporter, editorial writer, and editor with the Associated Press and with newspapers in several states and in China. He is co-author, with William Hachten, of <i>New Media for a New China</i> (Wiley, 2010).

<p>An established and well-respected resource for students and scholars of global journalism for more than a decade, <i>The World News Prism</i> is now available in a fully-revised and updated ninth edition. Featuring three all new chapters on Brazil, Russia, and India and a revised chapter on the Middle East written by regional media experts, this new edition charts media revolutions occurring throughout the world and examines their effects both locally and globally. The new edition has also been updated to include comprehensive coverage of the growing impact of social media on how news is being reported and received.</p> From tweets that spark uprisings, to state-mandated censorship, <i>The World News Prism: Digital, Social and Interactive</i> provides the most up-to-date and inclusive analysis of transnational news media in the 21^st century.

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