Abstract
This study examines the structure of international news by asking journalists from India and the United States to assemble a news story utilizing the same raw materials. By presenting journalists with different discourses relating to US-India economic relations, we are able to examine which items they place high in a story and which they would place low in a story, and compare their various perspectives. A wide diversity of journalists participated, including reporters from USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, Akron Beacon Journal, The Times of India, The Statesman and the Ananda Bazar Patrika, to examine one of the most important international economic relationships in the world. Our principal findings are that the news discourses in both countries are shaped by issues relating to the media hegemony thesis and each country's national interest.
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