History of Foreign Journalism and Communication

Author: Zhi Tingrong
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: The term "news communication industry" refers to news communication institutions and their activities. The history of news communication industry involves the composition, scale, migration, and rise and fall of the news industry. It is constrained by a certain level of overall social development and is inevitably marked by the technological, institutional, and ideological environments of specific regions and historical stages. The purpose of this book can be summarized in three sentences: tracing the grand history, piecing together the ecological map, and depicting the traces of change. In this book, the author adopts a comprehensive historical approach, with time as the longitude and the aforementioned seven profiles as the latitude, focusing on the development of the news industry in major countries around the world as the main body. The author strives to maintain continuity and coherence, presenting a clear macroscopic picture of the history of Western and global news communication to the readers. The book covers major countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, Russia, India, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, Brazil, and Mexico. Through the author's introduction to the news communication of these countries, it includes all the important turning points in the history of foreign news communication.