Research Seminar, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster - Wednesday 4 April
Title:
‘News Production Process in International Broadcasting: The example of the BBC World Service’
Speaker:
Eylem Yanardagoglu,
Assistant Professor, Bahcesehir University & CAMRI Visiting Scholar
Time:
2:00 -4:00 pm
Room:
A6.7, Harrow Campus, University of Westminster, Northwick Park tube (Metropolitan Line)
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Abstract:
In an era where technologies allow instantaneous information exchange across national borders, news production continues to be relevant to long-standing issues
that are implicated in the globalization of media and its consequences. News continue to be relevant to issues of nation-state policies of exercising cultural or political hegemony over others, dominance of the ‘West’ on the ‘East’, issues of representation,
propaganda and/or securing public opinion. These dilemmas in international news especially intensified after the end of the Cold War as global interdependence grew in areas of politics, cultural exchange and economy. Looking at the history of international
broadcasting, it is possible to observe that governments aimed to utilise media to apply soft power as many governments began to operate foreign language broadcasting as early as 1920s to promote their policies. One of the first examples in this type of activity
were also conducted by the BBC World Service which still runs a Turkish Service since 1939. This research aims to examine the factors that impact on the news production in international broadcasting and takes the BBC World Service as an example. It explores
to what extent there is a parallel between the changing landscape of international broadcasting and public diplomacy requirements and aims to address the main research question: ‘How is news produced in international broadcasting? To what extent news production
is influenced by the requirements of public policy and/or pressures of technological developments or globalising trends in communication?’ The findings are based on ethnographic data are collected via participant observation and interviews at the World Service
Central Newsroom and one of the language services, the Turkish Service in the Bush House.
Biography:
Dr Eylem Yanardagoglu
is an assistant professor at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul where she teaches international journalism, introduction to mass media and communication theories. She received her PhD at the sociology
department at City University in London where she studied the changes in the media policies and practices that relate to minority communities in Turkey. After completing her Phd, she worked as a researcher in a major international EU FP7 project which considered
the views of actors in the European public sphere on the policies that pertain to the governance of social and cultural diversity in Europe. In 2010 Eylem received a research grant from the Science and Technology Council of Turkey and is currently based at
Westminster University as a visiting scholar at Communication and Media Resarch Institute (CAMRI). Her current research focuses on the news production and news culture of the BBC World Service with a special interest in the Turkish section. E-mail:
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