The World News Prism: Digital, Social and Interactive

An established and well–respected resource for students and scholars of global journalism for more than a decade, The World News Prism is now available in a fully–revised and updated ninth edition. Featuring three all new chapters on Brazil, Russia, and India and a revised chapter on the Middle East written by regional media experts, this new edition charts media revolutions occurring throughout the world and examines their effects both locally and globally. The new edition has also been updated to include comprehensive coverage of the growing impact of social media on how news is being reported and received.

From tweets that spark uprisings, to state–mandated censorship, The World News Prism: Digital, Social and Interactive provides the most up–to–date and inclusive analysis of transnational news media in the 21 st century.

William A. Hachten is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught for 30 years. His publications include: New Media for a New China (Wiley, 2010 with J. Scotton), The Troubles of Journalism (2005, 3 rd edition), The Growth of Media in the Third World (1993), and The Press and Apartheid (1984, with C.A. Giffard).

James F. Scotton is Associate Professor of Journalism at Marquette University. He has taught in Lebanon, China, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, and has worked as a reporter, editorial writer, and editor with the Associated Press and with newspapers in several states and in China. He is co–author, with William Hachten, of New Media for a New China (Wiley, 2010).