<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>How has war journalism changed since the end of the Cold War? After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was talk of a new world order. The Balkan Wars of the 1990s gave rise to the concept of “new wars”. The 1990-91 Gulf War was the commercial breakthrough for the around-the-clock news channel CNN, and the war in Afghanistan in 2001 for its competitor al-Jazeera. The 2003 Iraq war saw Internet’s great breakthrough in war journalism. A new world order, new wars, and new media – what impact is all this having on war journalism? This article outlines some important trends based on recent media research and discusses the new challenges as well as the consequences they entail for the conditions of war journalism, its professional reflexivity and democratic role.</p></abstract>

How has war journalism changed since the end of the Cold War? After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was talk of a new world order. The Balkan Wars of the 1990s gave rise to the concept of “new wars”. The 1990-91 Gulf War was the commercial breakthrough for the around-the-clock news channel CNN, and the war in Afghanistan in 2001 for its competitor al-Jazeera. The 2003 Iraq war saw Internet’s great breakthrough in war journalism. A new world order, new wars, and new media – what impact is all this having on war journalism? This article outlines some important trends based on recent media research and discusses the new challenges as well as the consequences they entail for the conditions of war journalism, its professional reflexivity and democratic role.

New War Journalism

Ph.d., Professor, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University

Nordicom Review

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How has war journalism changed since the end of the Cold War? After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, there...

New War Journalism

Publicado en línea: 07 feb 2017

Páginas: 95 - 112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0141

Palabras clave
new media war, propaganda and war journalism, framing of war news, visual war reporting, media reflexivity

© 2009 Stig A. Nohrstedt, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

New War Journalism

Publicado en línea: 07 feb 2017

Páginas: 95 - 112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0141

Palabras clavenew media war, propaganda and war journalism, framing of war news, visual war reporting, media reflexivity

© 2009 Stig A. Nohrstedt, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
new media war, propaganda and war journalism, framing of war news, visual war reporting, media reflexivity