SECTION 9 JOUR3136 INTERNATIONAL IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

Journalism Number of units : 3 units (3,2,1)

IJ Required & Prerequisite : Nil Major Elective Level : Year III/Semester 1 or 2

JOUR3136 Duration : 45 hours

Objectives for International News in a Globalized World

The aim of this course is for students to understand how international news developed into its current form, how it is practised today, the issues affecting it and its role and meaning in international society, politics and economy. Students will critically analyse milestone works of international , including how they were reported and consumed by a global audience to appreciate the diversity of coverage and approaches. Students will stay abreast of developing international news events and will learn reporting methods from professional international , either through guest speakers or in media visits. Students will also produce a work of meaningful research as well as work in a group to create a presentation and creative project.

Course Content

1. Development of international news: the history of international news; the rise of the international news agencies; major players in international news; relationship with world economic development;

2. The evolving international news industry: International relations and news; changing porosity of borders and the effect on international news; the role of international news in globalization; challenges reporters face in reporting international news;

3. Foreign correspondence & conflict reporting: History of the foreign ; war and conflict reporters; PTSD and journalists; relationship between the government and media during conflict; types of foreign reporters today; minorities in conflict reporting; role of fixers; training and education of international journalists;

4. International news and individual nations: the changing boundaries of press freedom; developing countries and international news; historical inequalities in international news and movements to change it, including Non-Aligned Movement and the New World Information and Communication Order; the Al- Jazeera effect; worthy and unworthy victims

5. International news and the digital world: impact of digital technologies on international news reporting and publishing; coping with surveillance; SECTION 9 JOUR3136 INTERNATIONAL NEWS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

whistleblowers as sources; data privacy; social media reporting; effect of algorithms on news consumption

6. International news today: global collaborations; geopolitics surrounding current events; comparison of international news; major agencies and corporations influencing news today; how the business of news media affects coverage; human rights reporting

7. Critical approaches to international news: ideological functions of news content; political economy of media industries; international news and the “war on terror”; application of relevant media theories, such as gatekeeping theory, framing theory and Chomsky’s to international reporting; ethical issues and international news.

Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOs)

CILO By the end of the course, students should be able to: CILO 1 Demonstrate understanding of important recent international events, reporting methods and relevant geopolitics;

CILO 2 Identify the special characteristics of international news by describing its history and development;

CILO 3 Critically evaluate the issues the media face in reporting current events as well as the evolving international news industry;

CILO 4 Undertake research on issues facing the international news industry by using relevant case studies to support conclusions;

CILO 5 Analyse selected major international news stories by comparing the diverse ways they are reported in a wide variety of news media using critical approaches to news;

CILO 6 Express personal views of international events and the work of international journalists in a sophisticated, professional and logical manner.

Teaching & Learning Activities (TLAs)

CILOs TLAs SECTION 9 JOUR3136 INTERNATIONAL NEWS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

CILOs 1 - 3, 5 Through lectures, case studies, readings and tutorials, students will be introduced to international news and its history, evolution and current situation as well as the reporting of current events, their relevant geopolitics and the issues involved in reporting them. CILOs 1, 3 - 6 Students will either individually or in groups identify and critically examine current issues affecting the international news media and utilise case studies to support their conclusions both orally and in writing. CILOs 1, 2, 6 Visits to class by experts in the field or class visits to places reporting is done to help students learn about a topic.

CILOs 1, 2 Students will take quizzes on current events and readings

Assessment Methods (AMs)

Type of CILOs to be Weighting Description of Assessment Tasks Assessment Addressed Assignments 20% 1, 2, 5, 6 Students will complete oral, and written and reading assignments participation and in-class activities designed to enhance learning, create engagement with peers and professional journalists and apply learned course material, including guest speaker or media visit reports and current event quizzes.

Group project 25% 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 In groups, students will critically examine an issue in international journalism or a current international news event and present their findings in a presentation and in a creative project. Term paper 25% 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 The instructor can set one large or two small term-paper assignments over the semester requiring students to make an argument on a topic related to class material that is based on research. Examination 30% 1, 2, 3 A formal examination that asks students to critically answer SECTION 9 JOUR3136 INTERNATIONAL NEWS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

questions in essay format about international news, its development and the issues reporting it drawing from lectures and readings.

Professional Works:

Panama Papers: Snowden Revelations: NSA Files Decoded The China Cables They are Slaughtering Us Like Animals Duterte’s War AP Investigation: Slaves may have caught the fish you bought AP: Palm Oil abuse series The Caliphate The ISIS Files Myanmar Burning Ebola in the Congo Fighting Ebola Outbreak Street by Street People Are Dying’: 72 Hours Inside a N.Y.C. Hospital Battling Coronavirus Boston Globe: Spotlight series on sex abuse in the Catholic Church The Road to Ward 17: My Battle with PTSD

Textbooks / Recommended Readings

Addario, L. (2015). It’s What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War. Penguin Books. Bandurski, D., & Hala, M. (Eds.) (2010) Investigative journalism in China: Eight cases in Chinese . Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. Beel, E & Owen, T (ed.) (2017). Journalism After Snowden. New York: Columbia University Press Chomsky, N. & Herman, E.S. (2010). Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Vintage Digital Clarke, J. (ed.) & Bromley, M. (ed.) (2014). International News in the Digital Age: East-West Perceptions of A New World Order. Routledge. Cushion, S., & Lewis, J. (Eds.). (2010) The rise of 24-hour news television: Global perspectives. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. De Botton, A. (2014). The News: A User’s Manual. Vintage. Downing, J. (2000). : Rebellious communication and social movements. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Hachten, W. A. (2005). The troubles of journalism: A critical look at what’s right and wrong with the press. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Guneratne, S. (Ed.) (2000). Handbook of the media in Asia. New Delhi: Sage. SECTION 9 JOUR3136 INTERNATIONAL NEWS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

Hachten, W., & Scotton, J. (2007). The world news prism: Global information in a satellite age. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Hallin, D. C., & Mancini, P. (2004). Comparing media systems: Three models of media and politics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. Hankir, Z.(2019). Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women reporting from the Arab World. London: Vintage. Knightly, P. (2004). The First Casualty: The as Hero and Myth- Maker from the Crimea to Iraq. Johns Hopkins University Press. Lee, C. C., Chan, J. M., Pan Z., and So, C. Y. K. (2012). Global media spectacle: New war over Hong Kong. Albany, NY: State University of New York. Lee, F. L. F., & Chan, J. M. (2011). Media, social mobilization and mass protests in post-colonial Hong Kong: The power of a critical event. Abingdon, Oxon: New York: Routledge. Lee, P. S. N., Leung, L. & So, C. Y. K. (Eds.). (2004). Impact and issues in new media: Toward intelligent societies. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. Masterton, M. (1996). Asian values in journalism. Singapore: Asian Media, Information and Communication Centre. Moseley, R. (2017). Reporting War. Yale University Press.