國際新聞的國內化與小報化--以我國報紙報導WTO 香港會議為例
The domestication and tabloidization of international news: How Taiwan ’s newspapers cover the WTO meeting in Hong Kong
This paper examines the domestication and tabloidization of international news, taking the coverage of 2005 WTO meeting in Taiwan’s main newspapers as an example. Using the methods of content analysis, discourse analysis and interview, this paper aims to discover domestization strategies and their factors as well as the tabloidization of international news. This research finds that Taiwan ’s newspapers apply strategies such as sending reporters to cover international news, depending on domestic news sources, connecting international events with domestic influences, emphasizing conflict and opposition and preferring images and stories. Many of these strategies are showed as the significant form of tabloidization. This research also finds that Taiwan ’s newspapers show their sympathy toward anti-globalization activists and this attitude is interweaved with the social context of Taiwan ’s development under globalization.