World News Coverage
Oct 30th, 2008, in News, by Patung
How much coverage Indonesia gets in the major newspapers of the world, like the New York Times.
Quality & Quantity
The New York Times, on average about a few times a month it seems, publishes fairly in depth and well-researched news stories about Indonesia on social and political topics likely to be familiar to readers of this site (RSS feed), and maintains a useful portal page on the country here.
From 2000 to the present the New York Times has published 500 odd articles about Indonesia, and below is an interactive, comparative look at the number of articles about each of the 192 member states of the United Nations that have appeared in the New York Times in the same time frame.
Static version of above (if your browser doesn’t have Java installed):
A French website, L’Observatoire des médias, looks at the coverage of countries in the world (in 2007) in some major French and British newspapers, as well as the New York Times, in a less user friendly way, with a heat map, with Indonesia not seeming to figure to any great extent in most of them.
Click the red dots next to newspaper names to activate.
66 Comments on “World News Coverage”
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foreign correspondent says:
Freelance, yes, But on contract with two publications that I won’t name but you have likely read. So it does pay, luckily.
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Achmad Sudarsono says:
Foreign Correspondent,
On struggling for interest in Indonesia, beg to differ.
New coverage philosophy could be summed up in a phrase: think globally, write locally. “Glocalize” the stories.
Indonesia’s a rich treasure-trove for all sorts of fascinating feature stories.
Yes, people aren’t interested in the dress SBY’s wife wore on election night. Or in the election of the Bupati of Fak Fak.
But what about global warming, rising sea levels, the culture wars within Islam, and the emergence of democracy.
Depends who you’re writing for obviously. Biggest problem for journalists is that they refuse to update their software (mental habits) as the hardware (newspapers, magazines), is changing faster than you can say “editorial layoffs.”
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fullmoonflower says:
Yes, people aren’t interested in the dress SBY’s wife wore on election night. Or in the election of the Bupati of Fak Fak.
but they will be interrested and it will be a big news if there is no dress….. (you know what I mean) 😆
oops…. sorry, mam….. (just kidding)….. peace…
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Patrick says:
@ Achmad you just inspired me again!
News blues!
Hey mister! Won’t you please look this way
Hey mister! I have got something important to say
But you keep ignoring my story
You keep overlooking my glory
We got plenty of news
All you can want and plenty to choose
Please don’t continue to ignore me
I am jumping up and down
Trying to get your readers attention
See the sea rising
See radical Islam’s uprising
See the Bali bombers execution
See the spinning of our constitution
There lots more where this came from
We got all the news under the sun
Hey mister we got a story to tell
Hey mister you got something to sell -
Ronald Coleman says:
I think anything that relates to Indonesia needs to be considered – and I believe this is the precise moment – in this quick unreasonable, rediculous little flare of prejudiced nationalism – through the tangled pattern of the islands – for them the far adventure was over…
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Thanks for that foreign correspondent, a good read, shame you didn’t use your real name as some of the folks here might like to know it, you might even know some of them in real life, but I’m sure not going to blow your cover…
That’s freelance? Dumb question I know but, it pays?
Yes please plenty of that thanks. Joke.
Incidentally, going back to the NYT, they appear to be in some serious financial trouble.