Global News Production - Softcover

"Lisbeth Clausen is one of the rare young mass communication experts in Europe who can handle the Japanese language almost perfectly. Using her exceptional linguistic talent, she conducted content analyses of Japanese TV news programs and interviews with many Japanese TV journalists including star newscasters. Although she conducted the interviews in Japanese, it is interesting that these journalists gave her the kind of information that they wouldn't have given if she were Japanese. In this sense, this book is valuable not only for those who do not know much about Japan but also for us Japanese readers." ITO Youichi Professor of Mass Communications, Keio University at Shonan Fujisawa, Japan

This book explores how powerful political and economic agendas in the national media environment influence the production processes.