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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 of development that emerged as a news category for newspapers and broadcasters after World War II. They move on to examine the way development has been reported by the mainstream media, exploring the rationales and ideologies that determined and continue to define the way the media think about and represent development in the news. In doing so, the authors contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between the news agenda, news sources and the development policies that are set in the centres of power. This book is ideal for those studying and researching and studying issues to do with journalism and the "Third World". It may also be relevant for those students taking courses in global or international journalism, media and democracy, development studies or international politics. Above all, it is an invitation for journalists to rethink their own practice in representing international development and its component.

Table of Contents:
Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: The elusive, shape-shifting nature of development in the news What is development, anyway? The critical examination of development news Thematic organization Chapter 1: The "tokenization" of development in the news Making poverty newsworthy The focus on events and disasters Dramatic storylines: goodies versus baddies The "celebritisation" of poverty The cult of economics An exact science? "Kicking the ladder" Dominance of Western worldviews Authoritative power to speak Practical challenges in newsgathering Any hope for change? Chapter 2: Journalistic conventions and the geopolitics of development narratives Geopolitics in news articulation Pack mentality and journalistic conventions Development news as geopolitical propaganda From colonial rhetoric to Truman’s development categories Cold War discourses Concluding notes Chapter 3: The "number game" in development news Naïve empiricism "Numbers rule the world" One dollar per day to out of poverty? The Holy Grail of GDP Concluding notes Chapter 4: Communicating containment and the Alliance for Progress Ideological and practical factors Alliance for Progress as a propagandist narrative The "equal partnership" discourse Mediatised development Lessons from the Alliance Chapter 5: News coverage of foreign aid: a case study of the Millennium Village Project in African, US and UK media Background to the chapter: the many problems of news coverage of foreign aid The case of the Millennium Villages Project Background on the MVP About this study African Press Coverage of the villages US/UK coverage of the MVP Early stages: ideologies and personalities as news Second phase: critical voices from the blogosphere Third phase: The Idealist Constraints on media reporting Conclusion Disclaimer Chapter 6: Disempowering news: the feminization of development The feminisation of poverty "Empowering" women – for less gender justice? Gendered news practices Chapter 7: New technologies for old ideas An ICT-driven new economy Technology as geopolitics Technology as colonial legitimisation Technology without politics? Chapter 8: Malthusianism and news framing of population growth Shifting the blame Legitimising racism Malthusianism returns as the Bell Curve Towards a better news articulation of population issues Conclusion: Beyond the North-to-South lecture: can the news media ever get to the core of development? Us-versus-them propaganda What is being ‘sold’ What is being missed Where to from here? References Index

About the Author :
Jairo Lugo-Ocando is an Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Before becoming an academic he worked as a correspondent and news editor for several media outlets in Latin America and the US. An Nguyen an Associate Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism, English and Communication at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom. A former Vietnamese journalist and an Australian-educated scholar, he has published widely in several areas, including digital news consumption and citizenship, public engagement with science news, and news and socio-political changes in a globalising world.

Review :
'Developing News isn’t just another study of "development" but a thorough, briskly written and radically new take on what Western media have retained from decades of change in the "Third World" and reported them to Western readers. Read this book to learn how the public’s interpretation of the global South has been shaped, mis-shaped and riddled with ideology. Then lend it to your favourite, or least-favourite, journalist. ' --Susan George, President of the Transnational Institute ‘At last, a comprehensive and historically-informed discourse on development by two scholars from the global South: Lugo-Ocando and Nguyen provide a powerful critique of development news and news about development. Highly recommended.' - Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, University of Westminster, London 'Developing News isn’t just another study of "development" but a thorough, briskly written and radically new take on what Western media have retained from decades of change in the "Third World" and reported them to Western readers. Read this book to learn how the public’s interpretation of the global South has been shaped, mis-shaped and riddled with ideology. Then lend it to your favourite, or least-favourite, journalist. ' --Susan George, President of the Transnational Institute ‘At last, a comprehensive and historically-informed discourse on development by two scholars from the global South: Lugo-Ocando and Nguyen provide a powerful critique of development news and news about development. Highly recommended.' - Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, University of Westminster, London


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  • ISBN-13: 9781351978446
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1351978446
  • Publisher Date: 17 Feb 2017
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: Global journalism and the coverage of "Third World" development


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