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Abstract
An acute debate has arisen among some journalism scholars as to whether or not a brainchild of the age of globalization was born in the media world: global journalism. This study introduces the debate and conceptually clarifies the points of disagreement between the two camps including the side that denies its emergence. In a parallel quantitative study, measures developed to capture the concepts, “stereotypes” and “domestication” whose existence in news journalism is viewed as inconsistent with the tenets of global journalism, were employed, and found that such content has increased in major international news media in the last 30 years.
Notes
1. Van Leuven and Berglez (Citation2016, 667) content analyzed three newspapers in which one was an English-language newspaper, the Times of London. They found that a quarter of the articles analyzed contained “at least one building block of global journalism.” English-language news media listed originally as exemplifying global journalism (Berglez Citation2008)—the New York Times, the Independent and the Guardian with multiple examples of each in the study—were not investigated.
2. Word count for “5 paragraphs” was calculated by the average number of words found in the first five paragraphs of the articles examined. This was accomplished by randomly sampling approximately 5% of all examined articles to determine the average number of words per the first 5 paragraphs. In the NYT, the average number was 1250 words and in the Guardian, 1125 words.
3. Correspondence required precise or near-precise matching of the words for word-level content. For instance, “jihadi” and “jihadi movement” were considered a match if obtained from the same part of the text. Lack of pegs or links, which was also examined, required matching by finding none (i.e. per paragraph).
4. The Guardian increased the number of foreign news items over the years ( and ). However, this seems to be reflection of its expansion of the US coverage as it made inroads into the US market, as already mentioned.