Elizabeth C. Hanson

Framing the world news: The Times of India in changing times

How did the dramatic transformation in the international political environment that occurred in 1990–1991 affect the selection of the international news by the Times of India? This article reports a content analysis of every 10th front page of the newspaper between 1985 and 1993 and supplements the data with an analysis of editorial commentary. A fairly even pattern of distribution between domestic and international events was found over the period. Geographical proximity and cultural/historical ties were important determinants of the amount of news coverage; that is, South Asia as a region consistently received more attention than any other region. The United States received far more attention than any other single country, more than twice that of the Soviet Union/ Russia. The content analysis revealed only a modest change in the international news coverage after 1991. Economic issues were discussed a bit more often, but there was little change in the geographical priorities. News attention did not becom...

Foreign direct investment policies in Chindia’s digital media

Digital media have fundamentally changed the traditional model of media distribution by enabling information and ideas to be shared and exchanged by a large number of users simultaneously. Nowhere have these new forces produced a more significant impact than in China and India, where broadcasting and telecommunications systems had operated as government owned and managed monopolies. This paper will review the foreign direct investment (FDI) policies in the telecom and media industries in India and China. It demonstrates that while both countries want to use FDI to achieve similar industrial objectives, they have taken different paths to develop those industries. The Indian government encourages both foreign and domestic players to participate in moderately regulated industries. Private operators currently hold the majority of market shares in a very fragmented and competitive market. In China, both industries are heavily regulated and dominated by state-owned enterprises (SOEs), with limited space for foreign companies to grow.