From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology

Contents

vii contents 1 Introduction The Challenge of Technological Change in Foreign Affairs Reporting DAVID D. PERLMUTTER AND JOHN MAXWELL HAMILTON  2 Rethinking “Foreign News” from a Transnational Perspective LUCILA VARGAS AND LISA PAULIN 20 3 The Nokia Effect The Reemergence of Amateur Journalism and What It Means for International Affairs STEVEN LIVINGSTON 47 4 Bloggers as the New “Foreign” Foreign Correspondents Personal Publishing as Public Affairs KAYE SWEETSER TRAMMELL AND DAVID D. PERLMUTTER 70 5 U.S. Media Teach Negative and Flawed Beliefs about Americans to Youths in Twelve Countries Implications for Future Foreign Affairs MARGARET H. DEFLEUR 89 recto viii 6 Instant Connection Foreign News Comes In from the Cold JOHN YEMMA 0 7 Happy Landings A Defense of Parachute Journalism EMILY ERICKSON AND JOHN MAXWELL HAMILTON 30 8 The Real-Time Challenge Speed and the Integrity of International News Coverage PHILIP SEIB 50 9 Afterword Technology and the Policy Maker: No Place to Hide (or, Everyone Knows Everything) RICHARD MOOSE 67 Bibliography 83 Contributors 97 Index 203 CONTENTS from pigeons to news portals recto ix This page intentionally left blank ...