By Ulf Hannerz

ISBN-10: 0226315746

ISBN-13: 9780226315744

ISBN-10: 0226315754

ISBN-13: 9780226315751

Foreign News provides us a desirable, behind-the-scenes inspect the practices of the worldwide tribe we name international correspondents. Exploring how they paintings, Ulf Hannerz additionally compares the methods correspondents and anthropologists record from one a part of the area to another.

Hannerz attracts on wide interviews with correspondents in towns as different as Jerusalem, Tokyo, and Johannesburg. He indicates not just how various tale traces evolve in several correspondent beats, but in addition how the correspondents' domestic nation and private pursuits impression the tales they write. Reporting can pass way past assurance of a selected occasion, utilizing the inside track as an alternative to bare deeper insights right into a kingdom or a humans to hyperlink them to long term traits or constructions of worldwide importance. eventually, Hannerz argues that either anthropologists and international correspondents can study from one another of their efforts to coach a public approximately occasions and peoples a ways past our homelands.

The results of approximately a decade's worthy of labor, Foreign News is a provocative examine that might attract either basic readers and people excited about globalization.

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