The book provides an overview of selected discourses in international journalism research and offers insights into central characteristics of media systems worldwide, and thus complements the corpus of introductory literature quite usefully

Global Media Journal

The new and more nuanced media model that the book offers relies on synthetizing various media theories and empirical data, which can hopefully help researchers to understand more about the peculiarities of the world’s media systems. At the end of each chapter the authors set questions based on their studies, which clearly indicates that this book is not only a textbook for scholars and researchers but it is also an object to trigger the critical thinking of students learning about global journalism and media systems.

Central European Journal of Communication

At last, here is a global journalism textbook that accounts for the worldwide ascendance of digital platforms and the spread of populism and authoritarianism. What a fantastic collection!

Miglena Sternadori, book review editor, Journal of Magazine Media, Texas Tech University

One of the key challenges for journalism research is to identify, map and articulate issues that cut across national boundaries while keeping our eye on local particulars. This book provides an essential roadmap for navigating such a truly global journalism studies.

Mark Deuze, University of Amsterdam

This excellent volume provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-world examination of global journalism’s practices and characteristics. An explication of key concepts and topics is combined with more context-specific perspectives from all regions of the world to provide a multi-perspectival view.

Melissa Wall, California State University - Northridge

There is no one work that provides the breadth and depth of understanding the technological changes and their impact on all aspects of global journalism as Dimitrova does here. Global Journalism generates a fresh and complex view of timely case studies and theoretical models featured by contributors from 12 different countries. This book will arouse interest and provide a scholarly foundation for understanding world media systems and key issues facing international communication today.

Shahira S. Fahmy, The American University in Cairo, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Publications Committee Chair