Through Their Eyes
Foreign Correspondents in the United States
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:17th Jan '06
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Americans often forget that, just as they watch the world through U.S. media, they are also being watched. Foreign correspondents based in the United States report news and provide context to events that are often unfamiliar or confusing to their readers back home. Unfortunately, there has been too little thoughtful examination of the foreign press in America and its role in the world media. Through Their Eyes fills this void in the unmistakable voice of Stephen Hess, who has been reporting on reporting for over a quarter century. Globalization is shrinking the planet, making it more important than ever to know what is going on in the world and how those events are being interpreted elsewhere. September 11 was a chilling reminder that how others perceive us does matter, like it or not. Hess seeks to answer three basic yet essential journalistic questions: Who are these U.S.-based foreign correspondents? How do they operate? And perhaps most important, what do they report, and how? Informed by scores of interviews and armed with original survey research, Hess reveals the mindset of foreign correspondents from a broad sample of countries. He examines how reporting from abroad has changed over the past twenty years and addresses the daunting challenges facing these journalists, ranging from home-office politics to national stereotypes. Unique among works on the subject, this book provides an engaging and humanizing ""Day in the Life?"" section, illustrating how foreign correspondents conduct their daily activities. This book continues the author's comprehensive Newswork series on the nexus of media, government, and politics. These five books, starting with The Washington Reporters (Brookings, 1981), have become valuable reference materials for all who seek to understand this intersection of journalism and government. Through Their Eyes furthers that rich tradition, making it essential and enjoyable reading.
""This timely analysis aims to understand the ways that foreign journalists in the United States cover this country for the rest of the world." —Scott L. Althaus, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics
|"Hess and his research team do a tremendous job of gathering and presenting the data on this unique breed....for practitioners of public diplomacy, Through Their Eyes will certainly be a resource to turn to again and again." —Christopher L. Teal, Foreign Service Journal, 10/1/2006
|"This book is truly distinctive —the only work of its kind to my knowledge and one of a very few efforts to look at foreign/international correspondents in the U.S. who cover America like a foreign country. The book includes a major empirical study, but is mostly a narrative that captures the 'feeling tone' of foreign correspondents and their work." —Everette Dennis, Fordham University
|"An important contribution... Through Their Eyes, in addition to being written in an easily accessible style for all readers, focuses on a rarely addressed section of the media world —namely how foreign correspondents, based largely in Washington and New York, cover the U.S." —Marvin Kalb, Harvard University
|"Nobody knows this material as well as Hess, and his continuing series (there is a volume yet to come) provides the published basis for most of what the rest of us know as well." —Chris Sterling, George Washington University, Communication Booknotes Quarterly, 4/1/2005
|"The latest installment, Through Their Eyes: Foreign Correspondents in the United States, distills the responses of nearly 600 foriegn journalists working in the United States. The result is a compact monograph that manages to convey the diversity of the ever-growing foreign press corps while drawing out some recurring themes..." —Mike DeBonis, The Washington City Paper, 1/29/2006
|"Now and then along comes a book that is worth reading. Through Their Eyes by Stephen Hess is one of them. What makes this book so valuable is the fact that it allows us a rare glimpse at the work of foreign correspondents in the United States--a small but important group of journalists responsible for the perceived image of America abroad." —Lars Willnat, George Washington University, American Journalism, 6/1/2006
|"A 'must' for any college-level student in either political studies or communications" — California Bookwatch
ISBN: 9780815735854
Dimensions: 228mm x 153mm x 14mm
Weight: 290g
208 pages