Introduction Abbas Malek and Anandam P. Kavoori Part I: Theorizing News Transnational Cultural Studies and International News: Some Research Questions Anandam P. Kavoori, Kalyani Chadha, and Christina Joseph A Matrix Model for Framing News Media Reality, Naren Chitty Mediating News: The "International Media Echo" and Symbolic International Relations Peter W. Oehlkers Part II: Comparative Perspectives Ideological Manipulation Via Newspaper Accounts of Political Conflict: A Cross-National News Analysis of the 1991 Moscow Coup Li-Ning Huang and Katherine C. McAdams International News in the Latin American Press Jose-Carlos Lozano, Edgar Gomez, Alejandra Matiasich, Alfredo Alfonso, Martin Becerra, Ada Cristina Machado Silveira, Magdalena Elizondo, Jorge Marroquin, Luciane Delgado Aquino, and Francisco-Javier Martinez A War by Any Other Name: A Textual Analysis of Falklands/Malvinas War Coverage in U.S. and Latin American Newspapers, Carolina Acosta-Alzuru and Elizabeth P. Lester Roushanzamir Part III: National Perspectives Hegemonic Frames and International News Reporting: A Comparative Study of the New York Times Coverage of the 1996 Indian and Israeli Elections Ritu K. Jayakar and Krishna P. Jayakar Medusa's Gaze: North American Press Coverage of the Peruvian Hostage Crisis Gina Bailey In The Shadows of the Kremlin: Africa's Media Image from Communism to Post-Communism Charles Quist-Adade Covering the South Caucasus and Bosnian Conflicts: Or How the Jihad Model Appears and Disappears Karim H. Karim Constructing International Spectacle on Television: CCTV News and China's Window on the World, 1992-1996 Tsan-Kuo Chang and Yanru Chen Looking East, Heading West: Images of Former Friends and Foes in the Bulgarian Communist/Socialist Party Press, 1990 Anelia K. Dimitrova New Mirror in a New South Africa? International News Flow and News Selection at the Afrikaans Daily, Beeld Arnold S. de Beer South Africa's Miracle Cure: A Stage-Managed tv Spectacular? P. Eric Louw and Naren Chitty Part IV: Transnational Perspectives Constructing the Global, Constructing the Local: News Agencies Re-Present the World Oliver Boyd-Barrett Development News Versus Globalized Infotainment Daya Kishan Thussu Flows of News from the Middle Kingdom: An Analysis of International News Releases from Xinhua Charles W. Elliott International Agencies and Global Issues: The Decline of the Cold War News Frame C. Anthony Giffard Appendix Discussion Questions