![]() And more! NewsFlow November-December 2022 GWP is also getting ready for the UN 2023 Water Conference. What’s hindering climate-resilient IWRM in the Central African Republic, Malawi, and Tanzania? Global Water Leadership is looking into the root causes in order to develop appropriate responses. The structure of news has been sliding and jumping all over the globe, but the product has remained basically the same.Keep up-to-date with NewsFlow, the bi-monthly e-newsletter from GWP detailing the activities of the network. In short, little progress will be made toward global and human journalism. The most likely "development" will be based on much rhetoric that sounds like dialogue and on the structure of the old international economic order, only located at new places. Yet a new global journalism is still far away. ![]() Professors Galtung and Vincent conclude that whereas the old interna¬tional order was grounded in much economic exchange-with exploita¬tion, and not much dialogue-an attractive alternative may be greater dialogue with less economic exchange. Also included in the complex and comprehensive analysis are many observations on the state of journalism, its relationship with elites, and the education of journalists. A "high quality" news media, it is argued, would give more attention to periphery people in periphery countries, to how structures operate day in and day out, and to reporting positive factors. The authors explore various trends found in reporting on these topics, and provide a journalistic agenda for future newswriting. The final chapters of the book are an effort to say something concrete about a new global and human journalism for four major issue-areas: peace, development, environment, and war reporting, with the latter including major discussion of the Persian Gulf War. We can see some of the complexities, at the macro level, of the relationship between economics and information-communication within the new international order. This is done by thoroughly reviewing U.N./UNESCO conferences, assemblies, discussions and symposia, and various non-aligned movement, government and media organization actions as they pertain to communication from 1946 to the present. Global Glasnost goes on to examine the NWICO concept, as it has unfolded. Another feature is an expanded discussion of the news structure paradigm first introduced by Professor Galtung in 1961. ![]() The authors argue that through newer approaches to news analysis, our understanding of international news would benefit. Prior research is criticized for its failure to look beyond the superficial "flow" of news items, and instead examine deeper themes and messages. The book then turns to a detailed exploration of the research environment in which news flow and international news content has been examined via both qualita-tive and quantitative research techniques. These notions are developed and explored. A vast array of detached space/time events or "atoms" have been seemingly presented as news constitutes a set of events, not a set of problems. Furthermore, while communication has become more relevant to global problems than ever before, it may also have become increasingly counter-productive. It is difficult to tell, however, whether this is being accompanied by a similar qualitative transformation, changing the character of what is regarded as news itself. It is concluded that there is little doubt that a quantitative transformation has been taking place, with somewhat less relative emphasis on the former Center and somewhat more on the former Periphery. The many possible relationships of such a classificatory scheme, and the associated possibilities for change in news communication within the old or new world information and communication order (NWICO), are the subjects of the first chapter. Global Glasnost begins by examining global cause-effect chains, and then attempts to locate some of them on a world political map. It is also an effort to spell out what NWICO might mean, in concrete terms, in four major international news communication themes-peace, development, ecology and war-in a quest for a new global journalism which is problem-conscious, socially conscious, and at home in the world as a whole. The book is an effort to look into the background for the process, as it has unfolded. The authors contend that the process was formally derailed because of First World resistance and an inability of Third World nations to agree on a common set of objectives and implementation methods. Abstract This book is about a major process of our times: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO). Global Glasnost: Toward a New International Information/Communication Order? Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.
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