The World News Prism

Fully revised and updated, the eighth edition of The World News Prism analyzes the changing role of transnational news media in the 21st-century globalized world and its impact on rapidly changing news events. * Includes a new chapter dedicated to evolving traditional and new social media in Middle East * Expands the discussion of news systems in developing nations, comparing media growth in India and Africa * Explores the impact of digital media on traditional societies * Features important updates on the decline of print media in the West and the challenges this poses to global reporting * Surveys the latest developments in new media and forecasts future developments