Fully revised and updated, the eighth edition of The World News Prism analyzes the changing role of transnational news media in the 21st-century globalized world and its impact on rapidly changing news events. Includes a new chapter dedicated to evolving traditional and new social media in Middle East Expands the discussion of news systems in developing nations, comparing media growth in India and Africa Explores the impact of digital media on traditional societies Features important updates on the decline of print media in the West and the challenges this poses to global reporting Surveys the latest developments in new media and forecasts future developments

Author Biography

William A. Hachten is Professor Emeritus of Journalism andMass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison where he taughtfor 30 years. His publications include: The Troubles ofJournalism, Third Edition (2005), The Growth of Media in theThird World (1993), and The Press and Apartheid (withC.A. Giffard, 1984). James F. Scotton is Associate Professor of Journalism atMarquette University, Milwaukee. He has taught in Lebanon, China,Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, and has worked as a reporter,editorial writer, and editor with the Associated Press andnewspapers in several states and in China. Together James Scotton and William Hachten are the authors ofNew Media for a New China (2010, Wiley-Blackwell).