The Routledge Handbook of News Agencies

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-70418-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 538 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Handbooks

The Routledge Handbook of News Agencies offers a state-of-the-art companion to global news agency history, political economy, business models, and practices across all publishing platforms.

With reference to regional, national, and international news agencies, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the industry, from traditional "wholesale" news gathering to modern digital services. Topics covered include industry history, research methodologies, major agency categories – including alternative and counter-hegemonic examples –, political economy, and business models addressing marketization, innovation, and technology. The volume also addresses some of the major controversies that beset the industry today, including pertaining to government relationships, revenue generation, service diversification, and maintaining accuracy and reliability in an era of fake news, disinformation, and propaganda. Contributors examine how agencies navigate global markets with diverse legal, cultural, and ideological contexts, providing crucial insights into this foundational yet often overlooked sector of the media industry.

This Handbook will serve advanced students and researchers of news agencies, media management, and the political economy of news around the world.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyd-Barrett, Oliver

Aguiar, Pedro

Vukasovich, Christian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

0.0 Introduction  Section 1. Histories of news agencies around the world  1.1. News Agencies as Objects of Study: Two centuries of western-centered system and scholarship 1.2. The Early Expansion of News Agencies in the Global South: History, historiography and journalism  1.3. News Agencies between the World Wars, 1919-1939  Section 2. Methodological Approaches to News Agency Scholarship  2.1. Studying News Agencies: Interview, newsroom ethnography and multilingual research approach  2.2. News Agencies Archives  2.3. Researching News Agency Production and Content  Section 3. Transnational News Agencies  3.1. Reuters: The Baron, homing pigeons and an illustrious past – but what of the future?  3.2.1. Associated Press: The First Century (1840 to 1945)  3.2.2. Associated Press (1945-2025): From an American news agency to a global digital player  3.3. Agence France-Presse (AFP): Carrying on the legacy of the first news agency  3.4. Xinhua: Asserting global leadership  3.5. TASS: Stability and transformation through the century of change  Section 4. National and Regional News Agencies  4.1. EFE: News agency for the Spanish-speaking world  4.2. Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa): Germany's market leader builds upon reliability and adaptation  4.3. The Canadian Press: Walking a tightrope between cooperation and competition  4.4. Anadolu: News agencies, media capture and competitive authoritarianism  4.5. Télam: A sudden end after decades of political confrontation  4.6. Press Trust of India (PTI): Independent India projects its own voice  4.7. A Captured Icon: Tanjug’s hard lessons for the global news system  4.8. ANSA: Italy’s innovative model for news agency management  Section 5. The External Environment: Partnership, Regulation and Markets of News Agencies  5.1. From Wholesaler to Retailer: The future of the news agencies industry  5.2. Regulation of News Agencies in the context of the Digital Society in the European Union  5.3. Cooperation versus competition: The battle NZPA lost  5.4. Regionalization of News Agencies in Peripheral Markets: the case of Reuters in South Africa  Section 6. Digitization, Social Media and Innovation in News Agencies  6.1. The Future of Independent News Agencies: A vision of innovation and collaboration  6.2. Information Management and Copyright Control in News Agencies: the IPTC and MINDS International  6.3. Social Media, Disinformation and Verification in News Agencies  Section 7. Specialized news agency services  7.1. The Terminal Revolution: Reuters and Bloomberg as global providers of financial and economic news  7.2. The International Television News Agencies  7.3. Processing Video News Agencies inside Brazilian Newsrooms: Critical issues about framing and shaping the world  7.4. The Global Photojournalism Distribution Networks: The case of the international news agencies  Section 8. News Agency Journalism, Translation, and Discourse  8.1. Theorizing News Agency Journalism: In search of a conceptual framework  8.2. Mind Your Language: AP, AFP, and Reuters stylebook guidelines on a “language of objectivity”  8.3. News Agencies and Information and Communication Technologies: Demise of the news dispatch?  8.4. Genres in News Agency Writing  8.5. Translation in News Agency Journalism  Section 9. Counter-Hegemonic News Agencies: Beyond Traditional Definitions  9.1. An Alternative News Agency Committed to Democratising Communication: The experience of ALAI  9.2. The Legacy of the Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool  9.3. Independent and Counter-Hegemonic News Services in the 21st Century

Über Autor(innen)

Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University, USA, and at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Pedro Aguiar is Professor of Journalism at the Department of Communication, Fluminense Federal University (IACS/UFF), Brazil.

Christian A. Vukasovich is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Maine, USA.