Graduate students are required to read and to write a critical analysis of two of the works on the following selective reading list, or on other readings approved by the instructor in advance. Your papers should be 2-3 pages, typed, doubled-spaced and well written.
Adigun A. Agbaje, The Nigerian Press, Hegemony, and the Social
Construction of Legitimacy, 1960-1983 (New York: Edwin Mellen,
1992)
Mark D. Alleyne, News Revolution: Political and Economic Decisions about Global Information (New York: St. Martin's, 1997
Leann Grabavoy Almquist, Joseph Alsop and American Foreign Policy: The Journalist as Advocate (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993)
Andrew Arno and Wimal Dissanayake, ed. The News Media in National and International Conflict (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984)
James Aronson, The Press and the Cold War (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1981)
Clement Asante, The Press in Ghana (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996)
Molefi K. Asante and Dhyana Zeigler, Thunder and Silence: The Mass Media in Africa (African World Press, 1992)
Ami Ayalon, The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Chris Barker, Global Television: An Introduction (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1997)
Richard L. Barton, ed., Ties that Blind in Canadian/American Relations: The Politics of News Discourse (1990)
Whitman Bassow, The Moscow Correspondents (New York: William Morrow, 1988)
Jonathon A. Becker, Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition (New York: St. Martin’s, 1999)
Barry Berlin, The American Trojan Horse: U.S. Television Confronts Canadian Economic and Cultural Nationalism (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990)
Nicholas O. Berry, Foreign Policy and the Press: An Analysis of New York Times Coverage of U.S. Foreign Policy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990)
Jay G. Blumler, ed., Television and the Public Interest: Vulnerable Values in West European Broadcasting (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992)
Leo Bogart, Cool Words, Cold War: A New Look at the U.S.I.A's 'Premises for Propaganda' (Lanham, MD: University Press of American, 1995)
Louise M. Bourgault, Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995)
Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Daya Kishan Thussu, Contra-Flow in Global News: International and Regional News Exchange Mechanisms (London: John Libbey, 1992)
Douglas A. Boyd, Broadcasting in the Arab World (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993)
Denise Botsdorf, The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994)
Peter Braestrup, Battle Lines: Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the Military and the Media (New York: Priority Press, 1985).
Stanley Burdner, "United States and Japanese News Coverage of Friction Between the Two Countries," in Communicating Across the Pacific (Missoula: Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs, 1993) See also Burdner, "Newspaper Coverage of U.S.-Japan Frictions: Balance and Objectivity," Asian Survey 35:4 (1995), 336-55.
Ted Galen Carpenter, The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment (Washington, D.C.: Cato, 1995)
Fred L. Casmir, Communication in Eastern Europe: The Role of History, Culture and Media in Contemporary Conflicts (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995)
Tsan-Kuo Chang, "Factors Affecting 'Gatekeeper' Selection of Foreign News: A National Survey of Newspaper Editors," Journalism Quarterly 69 (Autumn 1992): 554
Tsan-Kuo Chang, The Press and China Policy: The Illusion of Sino-American Relations, 1950-1984 (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1993)
Yoel Cohen, "Foreign Press Corps as an Indicator of International News," Gazette 56 (September 1995): 89.
Graham Chapman, et al, Environmentalism and the Mass Media: the North-South Divide (London: Routledge, 1997)
Yoel Cohen, Media Diplomacy: The Foreign Office in the Mass Communication Age (London: Frank Cass, 1986)
Richard R. Cole, ed. Communication in Latin America: Journalism, Mass Media and Society (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 1995)
Richard Collins, Culture, Communication and National Identity: The Case of Canadian Television (1990)
Richard Collins, Satellite Television in Western Europe (1992)
James Critchlow, Radio Hole-in-the Head/Radio Liberty: An Insider's Story of Cold War Broadcasting (Lanham, MD: American University Press, 1995)
Tim Crook, International Radio Journalism: History, Theory and Practice (New York: Routledge, 1998)
David Culbert, News for Everyman: Radio and Foreign Affairs in Thirties America (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1976)
Nicholas John Cull, Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American 'Neutrality' in World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
William de Lange, A History of Japanese Journalism: Japan's Press Club as the Last Obstacle to a Mature Press (Japan Library, 1998).
Bethami Dobkin, Tales of Terror: Television News and the Construction of the Terrorist Threat (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1992)
William Dorman and Mansour Farhang, The U.S. Press and Iran (1987)
John D.H. Downing, Internationalizing Media Theory, Transition, Power, Culture: Reflections on Media in Russia, Poland and Hungary, 1980-95 (Sage, 1996)
Denise Dresser and Rossana Fuentes Bertain, " How the Mexican Press Covers the United States: The Seven Deadly Sins," Press/Politics 3 (No.2, Spring 1998): 96-108.
Jane Elliott, "Who Seeks the Truth Should be of No Country: British and American Journalists Report the Boxer Rebellion, June 1900," American Journalism 13 (1996): 255-85.
Michael Emery, On the Front Lines: Following America's Foreign Correspondents Across the Twentieth Century (Lanham, MD: American University Press, 1995)
Festus Eribo and William Jong-Ebot, ed. Press Freedom and Communication in Africa (Trenton, NJ: African World Press, 1997)
Bruce J. Evenson, Truman, Palestine and the Press: Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992)
Horst Faas and Tim Page, ed. Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina (New York: Random House, 1997)
Ofer Feldman, Politics and the News Media in Japan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993)
Michel Filion, "Broadcasting and Cultural Identity: The Canadian Experience," Media, Culture and Society 18 (July 1996): 447-67.
Glen Fisher, Mindsets: The Role of Culture and Perception in International Relations (Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1988)
Don M. Flournoy and Robert K. Stewart, CNN: Making News in the Global Market (University of Luton, UK, 1997)
Elizabeth Fox, Latin American Broadcasting: From Tango to Telenova
Howard H. Frederick, Cuban-American Radio Wars: Ideology in International Telecommunications (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986)
Erwin Frenkel, The Press and Politics in Israel: The Jerusalem Post from 1932 to the Present (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994)
Lewis A. Friedland, Covering the World: International Television News Services (Washington, DC: Brookings, 1992)
Gladys D. Ganley, The Exploding Political Power of Personal Media (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, 1992)
Gladys D. Ganley, Unglued Empire: The Soviet Experience with Communications Technologies (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996)
Nicholas Garnham, ed., Capitalism and Communication: Global Culture and the Economics of Information (Newbury, Park, CA: Sage, 1992)
Philip Gaunt, Choosing the News: The Profit Factor in News Selection (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990)
Philip Gaunt, Making the Newsmakers: International Handbook on Journalism Training (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992)
Walter Gantz and Bradley S. Greenburg, Desert Storm and the Mass Media (Hampton, 1993)
Marc A. Genest, Negotiating in the Public Eye: The Impact of the Press on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Negotiations (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996)
Tom Gjelten, Sarajevo Daily: A City and its Newspaper Under Seige (New York: Harper Collins, 1995)
Tomasz Goban-Klas, Orchestration of the Media: The Politics of Mass Conmunications in Communist Poland and the Aftermath (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994)
Mariel Grant, Propaganda and the Role of the State in Inter-War Britain (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Bradley S. Greenberg and Walter Gantz, eds. Desert Storm and the Mass Media (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1993)
Peter Gross, Mass Media in Revolution and National Development (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1996)
Robert A. Hackett, News and Dissent: The Press and the Politics of Peace in Canada (New York: Longman, 1991)
Daniel Hallin, The ‘Uncensored’ War (1986)
Daniel Hallin, We Keep America on Top of the World: Television Journalism and the Public Sphere (New York: Routledge, 1994)
Beverly G. Hawk, ed., Africa's Media Image (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992)
John Henningham, "Australian Journalists' Professional and Ethical Values," Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly 73:1 (1996): 206-16.
Robert Hewett, Correspondents Give Their View on Japan-U.S. News Coverage (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1991)
John L. Hiemstra, Worldviews in the Air: The Struggle to Create a Pluralist Broadcasting System in the Netherlands (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997)
Walter L. Hixson, Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture and the Cold War, 1945-61 (New York: St. Martin's 1997)
Ole R. Holsti, Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996)
James L. Huffman, Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997)
Peter Humphreys, Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe (Manchester University Press, 1996)
Peter J. Humphreys, Media and Media Policy in West Germany: Press and Broadcasting Since 1945 (Berg, 1990)
W. Ben Hunt, Getting to War: Predicting International Conflict with Mass Media Indicators (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996)
Gordon S. Jackson, Breaking Story: The South African Press (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993)
Kenichi Ishii, "Is the U.S. Over-reported in the Japanese Press? Factors Accounting for International News in the Asahi," Gazette 57 (1996): 135-44.
Christina Johns and P. Ward Johnson, State Crime, the Media, and the Invasion of Panama (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994)
Andrew Z. Katz, "Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: The Nixon Administration and the Pursuit of Peace With Honor in Vietnam," Presidential Studies Quarterly 27 (No. 3, Summer 1997): 496-513.
Fayad E. Kazan, Mass Media, Modernity and Development: Arab States in the Gulf (New York: Praeger, 1993)
Douglas Kellner, The Persian Gulf TV War (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992)
William V. Kennedy, The Military and the Media: Why the Press Cannot be Trusted to Cover a War (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993)
Philip Knightly, The First Casualty (1975)
Jerry W. Knudson, "Licensing Journalists in Latin America: An Appraisal," Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 73 (1996): 878-89.
Kris P. Kodrich, Tradition and Change in the Nicaraguan Press: Newspapers and Journalists in a New Democratic Era (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001)
Michael Kunczik, Images of Nations and International Public Relations
Jim A. Kuypers, Presidential Crisis Rhetoric and the Press in the Post-Cold War World (Praeger, 1997)
James F. Larson and Heung-Soo Park, Global Television and the Politics of the Seoul Olympics (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993)
Jim Lederman, Battle Lines: The American Media and the Intifada (New York: Henry Holt, 1992)
Chin-Chuan Lee, "Foreign News and National Interest: Comparing U.S. and Japanese Coverage of a Chinese student movement," Gazette 56 (1995): 1-15.
Chin-Chuan Lee, "Press Self-Censorship and Political Transition in Hong Kong," Press/Politics 3 (No. 2, Spring 1998): 55-73.
Chin-Chuan Lee, et al, "Partisanship and Professionalism: Hong Kong Journalists in Transition," Gazette 57 (1996), No. 1, 1-15
John Lent, Mass Communications in the Caribbean (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990)
Bradley Lian, "Presidents, Use of Military Force, and Public Opinion," Journal of Conflict Resolution 37:2 (June 1993): 277-300
Arthur Lubow, The Reporter Who Would Be King: A Biography of Richard Harding Davis (New York: Scribner's, 1992)
James Lull, China Turned On: Television, Reform and Resistance (London: Routledge, 1991)
Brent MacGregor, Live, Direct and Biased? Making Television News in the Satellite Age? (London: St. Martin's, 1997)
Jarol Manheim, Strategic Public Diplomacy and American Foreign Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
John R. MacCarthur, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War (New York: Hill and Wang, 1992)
Marilyn J. Matelski, Vatican Radio: Propagation by the Airwaves (New York: Praeger, 1995)
Richard Maxwell, The Spectacle of Democracy: Spanish Television, Nationalism, and Political Transition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994)
Drew O. McDaniel, Broadcasting in the Malay World (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994)
Brian McNair, Glastnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media (London: Routledge, 1991)
Jonathon Mermin, Debating War and Peace: Media Coverage of U.S. Intervention in the Post-Vietnam Era (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999)
Robert W. Merry, Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Guardians of the American Century (New York: Viking, 1996)
Ellen Mickiewicz, Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Larry Minear, others The News Media, Civil War, and Humanitarian Action (Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner, 1996)
Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi and Ali Mohammadi, Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture and the Iranian Revolution (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994)
Robert C. Moore, The Political Reality of Freedom of the Press in Zambia (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1992)
John Mueller, Public Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
John Mueller, War, Presidents and Public Opinion (New York: Wiley, 1973)
Brigette L. Nacos, Terrorism and the Media: From the Iran Hostage Crisis to the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)
Hamid Naficy, The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993)
Murali Nair, "The Foreign Media Correspondents: Dateline Washington, D.C.," Gazette 48 (1991): 59-64.
Michael Nelson, War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War (Syracuse University Press, 1997).
William Nester, "Japan's Mainstream Press: Freedom to Confirm?" Pacific Affairs 62:1 (1989): 29-39.
Johanna Neuman, Lights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving International Politics? (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996).
Chris W. Ogbondah, Military Regimes and the Press in Nigeria, 1966-1993 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993)
David L. Paletz and Karol Jakubowicz, Glasnost and After: Media and Change in Eastern/Central Europe (New York: Hampton Press, 1992)
Reino Paasilinna, Glasnost and Soviet Television (Helsinki: Finnish Broadcasting Co., 1995)
Richard Parker, Mixed Signals: The Prospects for Global Television News (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1995)
Mark Pedelty, War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents (New York: routledge, 1995)
Robin Porter, ed. Reporting the News from China (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1992)
William Preston, et al, Hope and Folly: The United States and UNESCO, 1945-85 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989)
William W. Prochnau, Once Upon a Distant War (New York: Times Books, 1995)
Peter Rand, China Hands: The Adventures and Ordeals of the American Journalists Who Joined Forces with the Great Chinese Revolution (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995)
Donald Read, The Power of News: A History of Reuters (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
Bernard S. Redmont, Risks Worth Taking: The Odyssey of a Foreign Correspondent (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1992)
Alvin Richman, "Trends -- American Support for International Involvement," Public Opinion Quarterly 57:2 (Summer 1993), 264-276
Daniel Riffe, "The Shrinking Foreign Newshole of the New York Times," Newspaper Research Journal (Summer 1994)
Mort Rosenblum, Who Stole the News? Why We Can't Keep Up With What Happens in the World (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1993)
Michael B. Salwen and Bruce Garrison, Latin American Journalism (Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991)
Robert J. Savage Jr., Irish Television: Political and Social Origins (New York: Praeger, 1996)
Philip Seib, Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy (Westport, CO: Praeger, 1997)
Pamela J. Shoemaker, "Deviant Acts, Risky Business, and U.S. Interests: The Newsworthiness of World Events," Journalism Quarterly 68 (Winter 1991): 781.
John Sinclair, et al, New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision (New York: Oxford, 1996)
Richard Sobel, Public Opinion in American Foreign Policy: From Vietnam to the Nineties (New York: Oxford, 1999?)
Gene Sosin, Sparks of Liberty: An Insider's Memoir of Radio Liberty (Penn State University Press)
Colin Sparks, Communism, Capitalism, and the Mass Media (Sage, 1998)
Slavko Splichal, Media Beyond Socialism: Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994)
Slavko Splichal and Colin Sparks, Journalists for the 21st Century: Tendencies of Professionalization Among First-Year Journalism Students in 22 Countries (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994)
Annabelle Sreberny-Muhammadi, "The Global and the Local in International Communications," in J. Curran and M. Gurevitch, ed. Mass Media and Society (London: Arnold, 1991)
Mark Thompson, Forging War: The Media in Serbia, Crotia, and Bosnia-Hercegovina
Jennifer Turpin, Reinventing the Soviet Self: Media and Social Change in the Former Soviet Union (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995)
John Tusa, A World in Your Ear: Reflections on Changes (London: Broadcast Books, 1992)
Sanford Ungar, The Papers and the Papers: An Account of the Legal and Political Battle over the Pentagon Papers (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989)
George R. Urban, Radio Free Europe and the Pursuit of Democracy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997)
Jaap Van Ginneken, Understanding Global News: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 1998)
Philo C. Wasburn, Broadcasting Propaganda: International Radio Broadcasting and the Construction of Political Reality (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992)
George Wedell, Making Broadcasting Useful: The African Experience (1986)
Clyde Wilcox, "World Opinion in the Gulf Crisis," Journal of Conflict Resolution 37:1 (March 1993): 69-93.
Jurgen Wilke and Bernard Rosenberger, "Importing Foreign News: A Case Study of the German Service of the Associated Press," Journalism Quarterly 71:2 (Summer 1994): 421-32.
Elaine Windich, The Cold War Guerrilla: Jonas Savimbi, the U.S. Media and the Angola War (New York: Greenwood, 1992)
Gadi Wolfsfeld, Media and Policial Conflict: News from the Middle East (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Clarence R. Wyatt, Paper Soldiers: The American Press and the Vietnam War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)
Edwin M. Yoder Jr., Joe Alsop's Cold War: A Study of Journalistic Influence and Intrigue (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
Thimios Zaharopoulos and Manny E. Paraschos, Mass Media in Greece: Power, Politics and Privatization (New York: Praeger, 1992)W.
T. Zhang, History of Journalism of Contemporary China, 1949-1988 (Beijing: Xinhua Publishing House, 1992)
Yuehzi Zhao, Media, Market and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998).