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Determinants of Newsroom Use of Staff Expertise

The Case of International News

Wilson Lowrey

Department of Communication, 200E McComas Hall, PO Box PF, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA, wlowrey{at}comm.msstate.edu

Lee B. Becker

James M. Cox Jr Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA, lbbecker@arches. uga.edu

Aswin Punathambekar

14N207, Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, aswin1{at}MIT.EDU

This article examines the role of the community in determining why some news organizations invest in staff expertise in the area of international news and provide extensive international news content, while others do not. Data from daily newspapers in the US show organizational size rather than community factors to be the dominant influence on the news organization's commitment to specialization. Community factors did matter, however, and generally predicted more strongly for larger organizations than for smaller organizations.

Key Words: community influence • international news • media organizations • news construction • professional expertise

International Communication Gazette, Vol. 65, No. 1, 41-63 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0016549203065001138
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