| Summary: | This report is the first stage of a three-phase project on ‘International News: Provision, Consumption and Trust in a Rapidly Changing Broadcasting Environment’. The project examines eight countries and aims to explore the increasingly competitive provision of news by international providers, changing patterns of consumption and use of these providers, and the ways in which trust may be changing in a world of news plenty as opposed to news scarcity. The eight countries that the project examines include six in three different language zones in Africa, Senegal and Cameroon, Kenya and Nigeria and Algeria and Egypt, together with two countries in South Asia, India and Pakistan. This phase 1 report focuses on the provision of international news to the target countries and examines the stated aims of the main international broadcast providers, the nature of the media environment in the eight countries, and seeks through some news agenda analysis to compare the nature of the provision that is available from international providers as opposed to some key local suppliers
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