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NGOs as newsmakers : the changing landscape of international news / Matthew Powers

Author
Powers, Matthew
Additional Titles
Nongovernmental organizations as newsmakers
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
In English.
Contents
A new era of NGO-driven news? -- The changing faces of NGO communication work -- The partially opening news gates -- The strategic advocate in the digital storm -- Publicity's ends -- Explaining the endurance of news norms -- The possibilities and limitations of NGO communication.
Summary
As traditional news outlets' international coverage has waned, several prominent nongovernmental organizations have taken on a growing number of seemingly journalistic functions. Groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres send reporters to gather information and provide analysis and assign photographers and videographers to boost the visibility of their work. Digital technologies and social media have increased the potential for NGOs to communicate directly with the public, bypassing traditional gatekeepers. But have these efforts changed and expanded traditional news practices and coverage-and are there consequences to blurring the lines between reporting and advocacy? Matthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping-and sometimes directly producing-international news. Drawing on interviews, observations, and content analysis, he charts the dramatic growth in NGO news-making efforts, examines whether these efforts increase the organizations' chances of garnering news coverage, and analyzes the effects of digital technologies on publicity strategies. Although the contemporary media environment offers NGOs greater opportunities to shape the news, Powers finds, it also subjects them to news-media norms. While advocacy groups can and do provide coverage of otherwise ignored places and topics, they are still dependent on traditional media and political elites and influenced by the expectations of donors, officials, journalists, and NGOs themselves.
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ISBN
9780231545754 (electronic book)
0231545754 (electronic book)
9780231184922 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780231184939 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0231184921
9780231184922
023118493X
9780231184939
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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