Examining the global journalism: framing analysis of the ISIS threat on global

news networks’ online sites

Xu Zhang M.A. student, mass communication

04/23/2015

The ISIS threat (global issue)

Globalization

Globalization and International Communication

Media-technological paradigm Cultural paradigm Political-economic paradigm

Globalized World and Global Events

Several major “global” events

•HIV pandemic (Bardhan, 2001)

•2003 SARS (Tian % Stewart, 2005)

•Iraq War (Dimitrova & Ahern, 2007)

•North Korean nuclear test (Dai & Hyun, 2010)

•Global financial crisis (Marron, 2010)

Global journalism

Traditional journalism

Nation-state prism Domestic/foreign binary category Lack of context

Global journalism Reese (2008) and Berglez (2008) A style/practice Global perspective Emphasize on inter-connectedness

Examining global journalism

Comparative study

•Hallin & Mancini (2010)

•Three media systems

Global news networks and their news production

•CNN and Al-Jazeera English

•News coverage of the ISIS threat

Theoretical frameworks

•Framing analysis

•Global journalism (global perspective)

Sampling

CNN and Al-Jazeera English online news reports Two-constructed week sampling 393 online news reports (193 CNN,200 Al-Jazeera

English)

Findings

News genre

CNN Al-Jazeera English

article: 124 64.2% article: 124 62%

opinion: 31 16.1% opinion: 19 9.5%

reportage: 24 12.4% reportage: 28 14%

Brief: 1 0.5% Brief: 19 9.5%

feature: 13 6.7% feature: 10 5%