| This study investigates the influence of systemic determinants on international news coverage in 38 countries around the world. Systemic factors in this study encompass traits of nations, interactions and relatedness between nations, and logistics of news gathering. Conventional multiple regression method is implemented to detect the prediction of nine systemic determinants on number of news stories in each individual country, in either development levels, as well as at the global level. First, the findings generated from the 38-country data indicate that the U.S. was the most covered country in the world, although other powerful countries also received substantial coverage. Secondly, even though some differences exist among the countries, trade volume and presence of international news agencies were found to be the two primary predictors of the amount of news coverage. Economic development level also plays a role in sifting news about foreign countries--determinants of news coverage vary slightly between the developed and the developing nations. The study finds that the prediction framework of international news coverage in the post-Cold War epoch has probably been shifted and concludes that a new approach of research and policy making is needed to address the decade-old problems pointed out by the NWICO debates. |
