1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of News Agencies
List of contributors
Introduction
Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Pedro Aguiar and Christian Vukasovich
Section I. Histories of News Agencies Around the World
Chapter 1: News Agencies as Objects of Study: Two Centuries of Western-centered System and Scholarship
Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Pedro Aguiar
Chapter 2: The Early Expansion of News Agencies in the Global South: History, Historiography, and Journalism
Rhoda Desbordes-Vela
Chapter 3:. News Agencies between the World Wars, 1919–1939
Heidi Tworek
Section II. Methodological Approaches to News Agency Scholarship
Chapter 4:. Studying News Agencies: Interview, Newsroom Ethnography and Multilingual Research Approach
Jasmin Surm
Chapter 5:. News Agencies Archives
Michael Palmer
Chapter 6: Researching News Agency Production and Content
Chris Paterson and Dani Madrid-Morales
Section III. Transnational News Agencies
Chapter 7:. Reuters: The Baron, Homing Pigeons and an Illustrious Past – But What of the Future?
Stephen Jukes
Chapter 8.1: Associated Press: The First Century (1840–1945)
Gene Allen
Chapter 8.2: Associated Press (1945–2025): From an American News Agency to a Global Digital Player
Patrick White
Chapter 9: Agence France-Presse (AFP): Carrying on the Legacy of the First News Agency
Michael Palmer
Chapter 10: Xinhua: Asserting Global Leadership
Xin Xin
Chapter 11: TASS: Stability and Transformation Through the Century of Change
Elena Vartanova
Section IV. National and Regional News Agencies
Chapter 12: EFE: News Agency for the Spanish-speaking World
Carlos Pérez Gil
Translated by Pedro Aguiar
Chapter 13: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa): Germany's Market Leader Builds upon Reliability and Adaptation
Hans-Ulrich Wagner
Chapter 14: The Canadian Press: Walking a Tightrope Between Cooperation and Competition
Gene Allen
Chapter 15: Anadolu and Private News Agencies in Turkey: Media Capture and Competitive Authoritarianism
Servet Yanatma
Chapter 16: Télam: A sudden End after Decades of Political Confrontation
Marcelo Botto
Chapter 17: Press Trust of India (PTI): Independent India Projects its Own Voice
Devina Singh
Chapter 18: A Captured Icon: Tanjug’s Hard Lessons for the Global News System
Christian Vukasovich
Chapter 19: ANSA: Italy’s Innovative Model for News Agency Management
Marco Tortora
Section V. The External Environment: Partnership, Regulation and Markets of News Agencies
Chapter 20: From Wholesaler to Retailer: The Future of the News Agencies Industry
Ignacio Muro Benayas
Chapter 21: Regulation of News Agencies in the Context of the Digital Society in the European Union
Jordi Fortuny i Batalla
Chapter 22: Cooperation versus Competition: The Battle NZPA Lost
Gavin Ellis
Chapter 23: Regionalization of News Agencies in Peripheral Markets: The Case of Reuters in South Africa
Zanetta Lyn Jansen
Section VI. Digitization, Social Media and Innovation in News Agencies
Chapter 24: The Future of Independent News Agencies: A Vision of Innovation and Collaboration
Clemens Pig
Chapter 25: Information Management and Copyright Control in News Agencies: The IPTC and MINDS International
Pedro Aguiar
Chapter 26: Social Media, Disinformation, and Verification in News Agencies
Stephen Jukes
Section VII. Specialized News Agency Services
Chapter 27: The Terminal Revolution: Reuters and Bloomberg as Global Providers of Financial and Economic News
Gerben Bakker
Chapter 28: The International Television News Agencies
Chris Paterson
Maria Cleidejane Esperidião
Chapter 30: The Global Photojournalism Distribution Networks: The Case of the International News Agencies
Section VIII. News Agency Journalism, Translation, and Discourse
Chapter 31: Theorizing News Agency Journalism: In Search of a Conceptual Framework
Pedro Aguiar
Chpater 32: Mind Your Language: AP, AFP, and Reuters Stylebook Guidelines on a “Language of Objectivity”
Sandrine Boudana and Giora Goodman
Chapter 33: News Agencies and Information and Communication Technologies: Demise of the News Dispatch?
María de los Ángeles González Borges
Translated by Yadilka Valiente Boloy
Chapter 34: Genres in News Agency Writing
Dinko Gruhonjić
Chapter 35: Translation in News Agency Journalism
Natalia Rodríguez-Blanco and Lucile Davier
Section IX. Counter-Hegemonic News Agencies: Beyond Traditional Definitions
Chapter 36: An Alternative News Agency Committed to Democratizing Communication: The Experience of ALAI
Sally Burch and Osvaldo León
Chapter 37: The Legacy of the Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool
Sašo Slaček Brlek
Chapter 38: Independent and Counter-Hegemonic News Services in the 21st Century
Lee Artz
Index
Biography
Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University, USA, and at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Pedro Aguiar is Professor of Journalism at the Department of Communication, Fluminense Federal University (IACS/UFF), Brazil.
Christian A. Vukasovich is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Maine, USA.
