Media

Maple Leaf Rag

BY THOMAS HAYDEN | FEBRUARY 17, 2006

What They're Reading: Azerbaijan's Fourth Estate

Arif Aliev is the founder and editor of the daily Gun Seher newspaper and president of the independent journalists' union in Baku, Azerbaijan. Aliev spoke to FP about the struggle of bringing quality journalism to a place where people seldom read. 

INTERVIEW BY VERENA RINGLER | FEBRUARY 17, 2006

Romancing the Globe

Latin American soap operas have circled the globe and made a splash in places as far flung as Poland, Russia, and Indonesia. Their secret? Plotlines that keep the poor and underprivileged glued to their sets. Now these surprising Latin exports are part of the global cultural establishment -- and taking on Hollywood heavyweights.

BY IBSEN MARTÍNEZ | NOVEMBER 9, 2005

Nepal's Terror Alert

BY KUNDA DIXIT | AUGUST 30, 2005

Tuning in and Speaking out in Damascus

INTERVIEW BY ELISABETH EAVES | JULY 1, 2005

Prime Numbers: Power Projectors

Globalization goes to the movies.

BY DAVID HANCOCK | JULY 1, 2005

The Sick Men of Europe

BY RICHARD BYRNE | MAY 5, 2005

Bridging the Bosphorus

Turkey's decades-long desire to join Europe has prompted vast political reforms, and its negotiations for European Union membership are finally under way. Mensur Akgün, foreign-policy director of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation in Istanbul and associate professor at the Istanbul Kultur University, discussed the literary backdrop for Turkey's changing times with FP.

BY VERENA RINGLER | MAY 5, 2005

Europe's Broadcast Views

BY SHALINI VENTURELLI | MARCH 1, 2005

What They're Reading: Memoirs of the Middle Kingdom

The Chinese were printing books five centuries before Johannes Gutenberg published his first Bible. To find out how Chinese literary tastes are adapting to the new millennium, FP spoke with Gao Chuanxian, the former vice director at the Bureau of International Trade and Economics of the Xianning Municipal Government in Wuhan.

INTERVIEW BY YONG LU | MARCH 1, 2005

Editing the Enemy

JANUARY 5, 2005

The Moguls are the Medium

BY LAURA PETERSON | NOVEMBER 1, 2004

What They're Reading: Over There

INTERVIEW BY LORNA TYCHOSTUP | NOVEMBER 1, 2004

Around the World in Blogs

NOVEMBER 1, 2004

Web of Influence

Every day, millions of online diarists, or "bloggers," share their opinions with a global audience. Drawing upon the content of the international media and the World Wide Web, they weave together an elaborate network with agenda-setting power on issues ranging from human rights in China to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. What began as a hobby is evolving into a new medium that is changing the landscape for journalists and policymakers alike.

BY DANIEL W. DREZNER, HENRY FARRELL | NOVEMBER 1, 2004

Expert Sitings: Roland Schatz

Roland Schatz is the president of New York-based Media Tenor Ltd., a provider of international media-content analysis (www.mediatenor.com).

SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

Voice of a Superpower

The 2004 U.S. presidential election may be the first in decades to center on the candidates' foreign-policy views. So what do most Americans really think about Iraq, terrorism, North Korea, and free trade? Herewith an "interview" with the American people, with each answer reflecting majority positions in recent opinion polls. Americans' surprising preferences offer insight into what voters want from their next president.

BY STEVEN KULL | MAY 1, 2004

Expert Sitings: Hu Shuli

BY HU SHULI | MARCH 1, 2004

How to Report Under Fire

JANUARY 1, 2004

Staying Alive in Mindanao

BY JAMES B. GOODNO | NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Expert Sitings: Cem Ozdemir

BY CEM OZDEMIR | JULY 1, 2003

Targeting the Press

JULY 1, 2003

The Trials of Pinochet

BY PATRICIO NAVIA | MAY 1, 2003

The Perils of Lite Anti-Americanism

Why knee-jerk criticism of the United States carries dangerous hidden costs.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | MAY 1, 2003

Smart Mob Rule

BY JAMES MCGIRK | MAY 1, 2003

China Goes Hollywood

BY STANLLY ROSEN | JANUARY 1, 2003

A Message From Tora Bora

BY MUSTAPHA K. AL-SAYYID | JANUARY 1, 2003

Czechs on the Media

BY MICHAEL KRAUS | JANUARY 1, 2003