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Reporting Hong Kong by Alan Knight & Y. Nakano
Journalists and the Handover
This volume probes the tactics and strategies of the more than 8000 foreign correspondents who converged on Hong Kong for a few days in the summer of 1997 to record one of the last episodes in Western colonialism. It tracks the key players and follows the salient issues of this event.The book probes the tactics and strategies of the more than eight thousand foreign correspondents who converged on Hong Kong for a few days in the summer of 1997 to record one of the last episodes in western colonialism. It tracks the key players and follows the salient issues in this fin de siecle event. It discovers sharp contrasts between the different approaches by journalists from major countries as each tries to fulfill culturally framed expectations and needs of their media institutions. It provides unique insights into the particular concerns of competing national media teams, by comparing them against each other, against local coverage and the official record. The context of this study is the month long period in which Hong Kong's fate as a part of China is decided in a series of ritual events. It demonstrates the contrastive values of media organisations from different cultures and shows how news worthiness is constructed in relative terms according to the cultural imperatives of the media producer. |
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| Author(s) : Alan Knight | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0700710418 | ISBN-13 : 9780700710416 |
| RRP : £80.00 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : ConsumAsiaN S.
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 28/06/1999
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Ltd
Page Length : 223mm
Page Size : 234mm