1st Edition
News Around the World Content, Practitioners, and the Public
Biography
Pamela J. Shoemaker is the John Ben Snow Professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, USA. Her books include How to Build Social Science Theories, Mediating the Message: Theories of Influences on Mass Media Content, Gatekeeping, and an edited volume, Communication Campaigns about Drugs: Government, Media, Public. She is co-editor of the journal Communication Research. She is former president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Akiba A. Cohen is Professor of Communication at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He is author of The Television News Interview and co-author of The Holocaust and the Press: Nazi War-Crimes Trials in Germany and Israel, Global Newsrooms, Local Audiences: A Study of the Eurovision News Exchange, and Social Conflict and Television News. He served as president of the International Communication Association and is an elected Fellow of the Association.
