In this slideshare, Anabelle Chaumun (GlobalizNow.com) gives an overview on how the topic 'globalization' appears in the western media. At Globaliz, we think that we come to an age where globalization is not only exchanges of material and financial goods, but also wealth through national and international communities abroad.

1. Journalism and GlobalizationJournalism and Globalization
What journalists and news media do and can do ?

2. How new is globalization and what is ‘new’ about it ?
• Roman Empire
• Marco Polo
• Christopher Columbus
• Catholic Church
• Pre-WWI commerce

3. Factors influencing globalization
• Transnational corporations have grown in size and influence. They establish
key facts (e.g who the major players are)
• Means of communications have improved, both transport mechanisms (e.g
aeroplanes and high-speed rail) and information exchange (e.g internet, new
technologies, social networks)
• New markets are developing all the time. Nowadays, Western companies wish
to sell to Asia (China and India) and stock markets are growing in this area.
• International organizations have developed since the Second World War.
They attempt to referee the ‘global game’ and cover the names of the main
agencies

4. The key concepts
• Globalization
• Nation State
• Global village
• Internationalisation
• International Institutions
• Multilateral Institutions
• Multilateral Organisations
• Technology
• Intervention
• International Governance
• Population
• Migration
• Corporations
• Economy
• Convergence
• Environment
• External/Internal Costs
• Resistance

5. Globalization governance
• UN-System
(WTO, IMF, World Bank, WHO,
FAO, UNICEF, UNESCO, etc.)
• G-8
• G-20
• Corporations
• NGOs
• Media systems
• EU
• NAFTA
• ASEAN
• MercoSur

6. The role of news media in the globalization process
Formal and informal news
institutions are pervasive
agents of globalization, as well
as democratization, and whilst
strengthening the national state,
it is paradoxically also facilitating
the process of de-constructing
the very notion of it in a
globalization context (Curran,
2005; Lacher, 2006; McQuail
and Siune, 2003).

7. News should be typified as global news and no longer only or
mainly as international or foreign news (Thussu, 2007)
It is not a question of foreign news (i.e.
media reporting about news elsewhere
in the world) as such becoming more
global in scope (e.g. Reese, 2001), but
rather that local (domestic/national)
news, also when reported by foreign
journalists, are expanding into a new
form of global journalism.
Is there such thing as global news media organs ?

8. Building global communities
New networks are emerging at a global
scale, thus creating, inside the concept
of uniformization, a particular pattern of
regionalisation of knowledge which
encourages populations to gather into
units according to their interests and
values.
By meeting the needs of one
community, global news media outlets
are considered as major agents of
these new information flows and
intellectual exchanges, sustaining to
some extent the ‘glocalisation’ trend.

9. National stories : the country as a new media platform
Globalization should be seen as an era of extensive professional
possibilities, experimenting with a process of sharing stories
with people of common interests around the world.
New devices which facilitate mobility
are growing at a fast pace, thus
accelerating intercultural exchanges
between nations.
With the advent of new media platforms,
globalization is challenged: it is no
longer about spreading material goods
worldwide but, rather, giving a non-
material value to the global
marketplace.

10. Further readings
De Beer, A.S. (2010), “News from and in ‘The Dark Continent‘”,
Journalism Studies, Vol. 11, No. 4, p.596-609
Reese, S. (2001), “Understanding the Global Journalist : a
hierarchy-of-influences approach”, Journalism Studies Vol. 2, No. 2,
p. 173-87
Thussu, D. K. (Ed.) (2007), “Media on the Move : Global flow and
Contra-Flow, London : Routledge
Anabelle Chaumun