Developing News: Global journalism and the coverage of "Third World" development

by Jairo Lugo-Ocando and An Nguyen

Book Overview

Developing News sets out to describe how development is articulated in the news and used by newspeople as an analytical category to explain the world. It is about examining development as a discourse that is based on the harmful contrast between the developed and the developing (or the underdeveloped) and that sets the boundaries for what is permissible to say.

Jairo Lugo-Ocando and An Nguyen begin by discussing the news coverage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367427230
• ISBN13: 9780367427238
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"