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新闻英语文献
News Language and the Study of International Reporting
JACK Li iJi
The years 1990 and 1991 again confirmed the importance of studies in international reporting. The annual wire service rankings of the top 10 stories of 1990 contained seven international subjects,
including Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the reunification of Germany, and the surrender of Panama's Manuel Noriega.' And with war in the Persian Gulf and revolution in Eastern Europe, 1991 has seen international reporting continue to dominate the news.
Recent years have also seen great changes in the practice of journalism around the globe. The Communist press model was discarded in several Eastern European nations, including the Soviet
Union, yet governments proved unwilling to relinquish state control.^ . international reporting, especially from the Middle East, has been subjected to increasing censorship from other governments as well as the . military.
Death and danger have also marked the years. Reporters were assaulted and
detained in tlae Middle East. In many nations, especially in Latin America, reporters have been kidnapped and slain by those who sought to silence their
As international events continue to shape the world and journalism, study of international reporting should assume great importance in the journalism curriculum.
Students who will never set foot off . soil will need to know key international events, how and why those events are reported, and the implications of those events for the practice of journalism around the world.
The purpose of this essay is to present a model outline for the international reporting class. Attempting to incorporate aspects of instruction in comparative media systems as well as analyses of media, it explores the structure of the course and the outcome of its instruction. Specifically,
the approach was an analysis of international reporting, rather than a skills