Piecing Together the Jigsaw

Abstract

When western journalists report from 'Third World' countries, they are confronted with social, political, and infrastructural conditions which are often at odds with the demands of the fast-paced, deadline-oriented routines of their home organisations. The foreign correspondents' news gathering, processing, and writing must therefore be adapted to suit the demands of the new physical and ideological operating environment. A study of foreign correspondents in Indonesia suggests that western journalists based in that country undergo an inevitable process of acculturation, wherein local and western news styles converge to some degree. Foreign correspondents in Indonesia appear to deviate from classic 'hard news' conventions, even though the norms and organisational structures of the western media often limit the reporters' capacity to diverge from western narrative formulas. While the correspondents are bound within the Indonesian political and physical frameworks, their reporting tends to adopt local discursive forms.

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