An analysis of international news in Malawi newspapers

Kondowe, Emmanuel Braham Zumani

dc.contributor.advisor	Wigston, D.W.	en
dc.contributor.author	Kondowe, Emmanuel Braham Zumani	en
dc.date.accessioned	2009-08-25T11:03:18Z
dc.date.available	2009-08-25T11:03:18Z
dc.date.issued	2009-08-25T11:03:18Z
dc.date.submitted	2008-03-31	en
dc.identifier.citation	Kondowe, Emmanuel Braham Zumani (2009) An analysis of international news in Malawi newspapers, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2418>	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2418
dc.description.abstract	The study used quantitative content analysis to compare the international news content about Africa and the rest of the world in selected daily and weekly newspapers in Malawi and explored the extent to which economic factors, as represented by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), influence news flows about Africa into Malawi. The results showed dominance of the categories of war/international conflict and politics. International news agencies were the principal sources of news items for all the four papers. Though there were differences among the newspapers in the amount of space allocated to various categories such differences were minor. The study established that GDP is not a determinant of the amount of coverage a country receives.	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (x, 147 leaves)
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	World system	en
dc.subject	International media dependency	en
dc.subject	News values	en
dc.subject	International news	en
dc.subject	NWICO	en
dc.subject	Quantitative content analysis	en
dc.subject	Malawi newspapers	en
dc.subject.ddc	079.6897
dc.subject.lcsh	Journalism -- Malawi
dc.subject.lcsh	Foreign news -- Malawi
dc.subject.lcsh	Malawian newspapers
dc.subject.lcsh	Gross national product
dc.subject.lcsh	News agencies
dc.subject.lcsh	Content analysis (Communication)
dc.subject.lcsh	Communication -- International cooperation
dc.subject.lcsh	Malawi -- Dependency on foreign countries
dc.title	An analysis of international news in Malawi newspapers	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
dc.description.department	Communication Science	en
dc.description.degree	M.A. (International Communication)	en