Global journalism : topical issues and media systems / editors, Arnold S. de Beer, John C. Merrill. - 4th ed. - Boston, Mass. : Pearson, c2004. - xxii, 474 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction - Part 1: Global perspectives on media issues - 1. Global press philosophies - 2. International media systems : An overview - 3. Global and national news agencies: The unstable nexus - 4. Barriers to media development - 5. Freedom of the Press around the world - 6. Intenational journalism ethics - 7. Global advertising and public relations - 8. Continuing media controversies - 9. Global journalism education - 10. Journalism: International profiles - 11. Journalists reporting from foreign places - 12. News - The fleeting, elusive but essential feature of global jounalism -- Part II: The world's regions - 13. Western Europe - 14. Eastern Europe, the newly independent states of Eurasia, and Russia - 15. The Middle East and North Africa - 16. Sub-Saharan Africa (East, West and South) - 17. Asia and the Pacific - 18. Australasia - 19. Latin America - 20. North America.

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