The International Television News Agencies

Chris Paterson is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. He co-edited International News in the 21st Century (2004) and two editions of Making Online News (2008 and 2011). Paterson is an adviser to Newsdesk.org, and is co-founder of the Working Group on Media Production Analysis of the IAMCR.

«An insightful analysis of the unsung superpowers of global TV news.» (Martin Bell, Former Member of Parliament and former BBC War Correspondent)
«Chris Paterson has given us the long-awaited and only in-depth account of the two London-based operations that today furnish most of the international news footage on which a large proportion of the global television-viewing audience of the world depends. This is a hugely important contribution to what we know about the television news agencies. Paterson strikes a judicious balance between his critique of the selective and questionable news choices and frames that govern the live news and news packages that these two western organizations provide, on the one hand, with his admiration for the routine ingenuity and heroism of these agencies' journalists and managers. His work includes intriguing and detailed accounts of how the news agencies' predictions and planning, together with their deployment and integration of relatively scarce resources, fundamentally shape which stories get to be told and how they are told. The book will be a key reference for researchers for many years to come.» (Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Professor of Journalism, Bowling Green State University)
«[...] offers a rare and revealing glimpse behind the scenes of the world's two most powerful television news agencies.» (Stephen Jukes, Dean of the Media School at Bournemouth University and former Global Head of News at Reuters)