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Russian Newspaper Coverage of Somalia and the Former Yugoslavia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Festus Eribo
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One of the results of the New World Information and Communication Order debate was the invigoration of international communication research on images and coverage of nations in the world media. Specifically, the images of Africa outside the continent became a major research question in Western communication scholarship. The results of these studies contend that several variables such as 1) event characteristics, including deviance, interest, and timeliness; and 2) country characteristics, including economic, political, and cultural significance, proximity and national security, appear to affect the ways one nation is covered by the media of another nation.

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African Issues , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994 , pp. 30 - 34
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1994

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Festus Eribo, Ph.D., teaches in the Department of Communication at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

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2. Although the syntax of quotes presented in this paper may be unfamiliar, each text is an accurate quotation of the news article.

3. See also Eribo, Festus, “Coverage of Africa South of the Sahara by Pravda, Izvestia, Trud, and Selskaya Zhizn, 1979-1987: A Content Analysis,” Journalism Quarterly 70/1 (1993), 51–57.Google Scholar

4. Pravda, 19 December 1992.

5. Isvestia, 2 December 1992.

6. Isvestia, 4 December 1992.

7. Isvestia, 7 December 1992.

8. Isvestia, 8 December 1992.

9. Isvestia, 10 December 1992.

10. Pravda, 4 December 1992.

11. Pravda, 5 December 1992.

12. Pravda, 17 December 1992.

13. Pravda, 19 December 1992.

14. Isvestia, 14 December 1992.