World news or international news or even foreign coverage is the news media-jargon for news from abroad, about a foreign country or a global subject. For journalism, it is a branch that deals with news either sent by foreign correspondents or news agencies, or — more recently — information that is gathered or researched through distance communication technologies, such as telephone, satellite TV or the internet.

Although in most of the Anglophone world this field is not usually regarded as a specific specialization for journalists, it is so in nearly all the world. Particularly in the United States, there is a blurred distinction between world news and "national" news when they include directly the national government or national institutions, such as wars in which the US are involved or summits of multilateral organizations in which the US are a member.

Actually, at the birth of modern journalism, most news were actually foreign, as registered by the courants of the 17th century in West and Central Europe, such as the Daily Courant (England), the Nieuwe Tijudinger (Antwerp), the Relation (Strasbourg), the Avisa Relation oder Zeitung (Wolfenbüttel) and the Courante Uyt Italien, Duytsland & C. (Amsterdam). Since these papers were aimed at bankers and merchants, they brought mostly news from other markets, which usually meant other nations. In any case, it is worthy to remark that nation-states were still incipient in 17th-century Europe.

From the 19th century on, with newspapers already established in Europe, the United States and a few other countries, innovations in telecommunications such as the telegraph made news from abroad easier to be spread. The first news agencies were then founded, like AFP (France), Reuters (UK), Wolff (currently DPA, Germany) and the AP (USA).

War journalism is one of the best known subfields of world news (although war coverage can be national for the media of belligerent countries themselves).

Foreign Correspondents[link]

There are essentially two types of reporters who do foreign reporting: the foreign correspondent (full-time reporter employed by a news source) and the special envoy (sent abroad to cover a specific subject, temporarily stationed in a location).

The correspondent is a reporter based in a foreign city (often the capital of a country) covering a region, a country or sometimes even an entire continent. He or she regularly files stories to the news editor. He/she gathers materials for these stories from local officials, members of the community, and the local media, as well as from events he/she directly witnesses. Correspondents typically stay in touch with the local community and maintain contacts with other journalists and correspondents in order to identify strategic sources in the government, among diplomats, members of the military and other organizations on the ground who may provide important information.

The number of foreign correspondents has dropped significantly over the past 20 years or more. Often, a media company is either uninterested or unable to afford to support a single correspondent, such as in many developing countries. In some places, they cannot obtain visas due to political constraints, or otherwise dangerous conditions prohibit a media company from stationing a reporter there. In recent years, the drop in foreign correspondents has been due to cutbacks within media companies (often, but not always, a result of economics alone).[1]

When reporters working abroad have no permanent labor contract with media outlets, they are called stringers. Since they have no salary, stringers usually produce material for several different companies at once.

News Agencies[link]

A news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to news organizations: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. Such an agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire or news service. The bulk of major news agency services contains foreign news.

The major news agencies generally prepare hard news stories and feature articles that can be used by other news organizations with little or no modification, and then sell them to other news organizations. They provide these articles in bulk electronically through wire services (originally they used telegraphy; today they frequently use the Internet). Corporations, individuals, analysts and intelligence agencies may also subscribe.

Further reading[link]

• Clausen, L. (2003) Global news production. Copenhagen Business School Press DK
• Desmond, R.W. (1972) The press and world affairs. Arno Press
• Friedland, L.A. (1992) Covering the world: international television news services: essay. Twentieth Century Fund.
• Ginneken, J. (1998) Understanding global news: a critical introduction. SAGE
• Hachten, W.A.; Scotton, J.F. (2002) The world news prism: global media in an era of terrorism. Iowa State Press
• Malek, A.; Kavoori, A.P. (2000) The global dynamics of news: studies in international news coverage and news agenda. Greenwood
• Paterson, C.; Sreberny, A., ed. (2004) International news in the 21st century. John Libbey Pub. for University of Luton Press
• Richstad, J.; Anderson, M.H. (1981) Crisis in international news: policies and prospects. Columbia University Press
• Stanton, R. (2007) All news is local: the failure of the media to reflect world events in a globalized age. McFarland & Co.
• Stevenson, R.L.; Shaw, D.L. (1984) Foreign news and the new world information order. Iowa State University Press
• Wallis, R.; Baran, S.J. (1990) The known world of broadcast news: international news and the electronic media. Routledge

See also[link]

• World News (disambiguation)
• Afghanistanism

Jeffrey (Jeff) Berwick (b. (1970-11-24) November 24, 1970 (age 41), Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian entrepreneur, economics, finance, and investment writer, and libertarian/anarchist activist.

Jeff Berwick founded StockHouse Media Corporation in 1994, raising over $40 million USD in financing and growing the company to a peak of more than 200 employees in 8 countries worldwide by 2000.

StockHouse continues to be the most active financial website in Canada, ranking No. 1 in February, 2007, by comScore Media Metrix Ad Focus report - beating out Globe Finance, Yahoo! Canada Finance and Sympatico/MSN Finance - in the areas of pages per visitor and average minutes per visitor in the business/finance news and research category.^[1]

Berwick was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 1999. In 1999 and 2000, Berwick was recognized by Business in Vancouver's "Top 40 under 40" ranking.^[2]

Jeff Berwick has been a regular contributor to editorials on the StockHouse websites from 1995 to present and contributes to numerous popular libertarian and finance sites including LewRockwell.com and writes a libertarian, Austrian economics focused financial newsletter called The Dollar Vigilante.^[3] He is the host of Anarchast^[4], an anarchist video and audio podcast show. He is also a regular speaker at international investing, finance and liberty conferences including Libertopia ^[5], the San Francisco Hard Assets Show^[6], New York Hard Assets Show^[7], PDAC^[8] and the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference.^[9]

He is the owner of AcaCondos an Acapulco based real estate company as well as the owner of Las Torres Gemelas Private Suites, a boutique hotel in Acapulco.^[10]

In June, 2005, Berwick was in the process of circumnavigating the world in his 35' sailing catamaran when he was caught in a storm and the ship was sunk, leaving Berwick on his surfboard, later to be rescued with minor injuries by other sailors near Jiquilisco Bay, El Salvador.^[11]

References[link]

1. ^ "Business Edge News Magazine - Stockgroup Investors Savouring Acquisition". http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/15183.cfm. 
2. ^ "Business in Vancouver - Top 40 under 40 - Past Winners". http://www.biv.com/40under40/previous.asp. 
3. ^ "PR Newswire - Financial Crisis Gives Rise to New Class of Market Participant: The Dollar Vigilante". http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/heavy-industry-manufacturing-latest-news/financial-crisis-gives-rise-to-new-class-of-market-participant-the-dollar-vigilante-98504119.html. 
4. ^ "Anarchast". http://anarchast.com. 
5. ^ "Libertopia". http://libertopia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=6&Itemid=54. 
6. ^ "San Francisco Hard Assets Conference". http://www.hardassetssf.com/conference/event-schedule/. 
7. ^ "New York Hard Assets Conference". http://www.hardassetsny.com/conference/expert-speakers/. 
8. ^ "Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada". http://www.pdac.ca/pdac/conv/2011/ie-delegates.aspx. 
9. ^ "Vancouver Resource Investment Conference". http://cambridgehouse.com/conference-details/vancouver-resource-investment-conference-2011/15. 
10. ^ "AcaCondos.com - About Us". http://www.acacondos.com/About_us.html. 
11. ^ "Latitude 38 - Catamaran in El Salvador May Not Have Been Lost at Sea". http://www.latitude38.com/LectronicLat/2005/0705/Jul01/July1.html. 

Nik Gowing
Gowing at the World Economic Forum annual meeting, 2012.
Education	Bristol University
Occupation	News anchor of BBC
Notable credit(s)	The Hub

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Nik Keith Gowing (born 1951) is a British television journalist. He was educated at the Simon Langton Grammar School in Canterbury and Latymer Upper School in London, followed by Bristol University.

A foreign affairs specialist and presenter at ITN from 1978, Gowing became Diplomatic Editor for the flagship Channel 4 News from 1989. During his time with the BBC, Gowing has since presented The World Today (1996–2000), Europe Direct, HARDtalk, Dateline London, as well as Simpson's World.

At the time of the death of Princess Diana in 1997, Gowing anchored coverage for over seven hours, reportedly only having had 40 minutes sleep before being driven back to Television Centre to present.^[1] BBC World was being simulcast for the first ever time with the BBC domestic channel BBC One, making up a global audience of around half a billion, to whom he announced her death.

His coverage of the aftermath of the September 11th 2001 attacks won the 2002 Hotbird Award.^[2] He had been on air for six hours. He is also a Member of Council of the Royal United Services Institute.

Gowing at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, 2010

Personal life and early career[link]

Nik Gowing is the son of Professor Margaret Gowing, author of the two volume work Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy, 1945–52, who died in 1998. After attending grammar schools in London and Canterbury, Gowing read geography at Bristol University.

At University he worked on local radio; he then joined Thomson Regional Newspapers in Newcastle.

He and his wife Judy have two children and live in west London.

Published work[link]

• The Wire, Hutchinson (31 May 1988), ISBN 978-0-09-167370-3

A novel about the infiltration of the secret police into Poland's Solidarity movement, based on Gowing's extensive knowledge of Solidarity's activities.

• The Loop, Hutchinson (5 Aug 1993), ISBN 978-0-09-174991-0

A thriller, again based on Gowing's first-hand journalistic experience, set in the new Russia. A highly-decorated KGB colonel, who fought to defend the communist system, must survive in a world of turmoil and anarchy.

• "Real-time media is changing our world: Cheap 'go-anywhere' cameras and phones are challenging the credibility of governments, corporations and the traditional media." The Guardian, 11 May 2009
• Skyful of Lies & Black Swans, 2009, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

References[link]

External links[link]

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